… Proton therapy has been in clinical use since the 1970s. It was initially used in two US
centers (Boston, MA, and Loma Linda, CA) and subsequently in Europe (d’Orsay, France) and …

… have access to proton therapy. With … clinical data to support the routine use of proton
therapy will emerge. To date the majority of clinical evidence supporting the use of proton therapy …

… of proton therapy, describe its image-guided treatment planning and delivery, discuss clinical
… for cancer patients, and suggest challenges and the future development of proton therapy. …

… to evaluate outcome data of proton therapy against best conventional standard of treatment
… the published clinical outcome data on the efficacy and toxicity of proton beam therapy. This …

… clinical outcomes after proton therapy in patients with such tumours (Table 2). Twenty-seven
were case series from proton therapy … review of clinical effectiveness of proton therapy …

… Clinical Rationale The rationale for the clinical use of proton beams is the feasibility of …
Like other highly conformal therapy techniques, proton therapy is of particular interest for …

… Many of our patients are on proton therapy clinical research studies. Patients with prostate
cancer comprise about 10% of our patient population. Head and neck (primarily paranasal …

… of evidenced-based guidelines to define appropriate use of proton beam therapy. The present
study provides an overview of active proton therapy clinical trials. Although the majority of …

… While theoretically beneficial, its clinical values are still being … with proton therapy, from several
dozen proton therapy centers … of definite clinical evidence of its superiority, proton therapy …

… review on the clinical effectiveness of … clinical effectiveness, harm, and clinical impact of
the limitations and uncertainties related to PT 19, 20, 21 can be assessed only through clinical …