Proton beam therapy

• Tác giả: Harald Paganetti
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0750313704
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 615.842 Radiotherapy
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (x, 23 pages) : , color illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 160809
• Chủ đề: 1. Cancer--Radiotherapy; 2. Medical physics; 3. Proton beams--Therapeutic use; 4. Physics; 5. SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics; 6. Health Physics; 7. Neoplasms--radiotherapy; 8. Proton Therapy

Includes bibliographical references (page 23).

Tóm tắt

Cancer therapy is a multi-modality approach including surgery, systemic or targeted chemotherapy, radiation (external beam or radionuclide), and immunotherapy. Radiation is typically administered using external beam photon therapy. Proton therapy has been around for more than 60 years but was restricted to research laboratories until the 1990s. Since then clinical proton therapy has been growing rapidly with currently more than 50 facilities worldwide. The interest in proton therapy stems from the physical properties of protons allowing for advanced dose sculpting around the target and sparing of healthy tissue. This review first evaluates the basics of proton therapy physics and technology and then outlines some of the current physical, biological, and clinical challenges. Solving these will ultimately determine whether proton therapy will continue on its path to becoming mainstream.