Thoracic radiation normal tissue injury

CB Simone II - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2017 - Elsevier
Thoracic malignancies are often a difficult group of tumors to treat definitively as the
radiation doses needed to achieve a high probability for tumor control are often associated …

Quality of life and patient-reported outcomes following proton radiation therapy: a systematic review

V Verma, CB Simone, MV Mishra - JNCI: Journal of the National …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background As costs of cancer care rise, the importance of documenting value in oncology
increases. Proton beam radiotherapy (PBT) has the potential to reduce toxicities in cancer …

First experimental proof of Proton Boron Capture Therapy (PBCT) to enhance protontherapy effectiveness

GAP Cirrone, L Manti, D Margarone, G Petringa… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Protontherapy is hadrontherapy's fastest-growing modality and a pillar in the battle against
cancer. Hadrontherapy's superiority lies in its inverted depth-dose profile, hence tumour …

Proton beam radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy for unresectable stage III non–small cell lung cancer: final results of a phase 2 study

JY Chang, V Verma, M Li, W Zhang, R Komaki… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Proton beam radiotherapy (PBT) has the potential to reduce toxic effects in the
definitive management of locally advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but long …

Evaluation of proton-induced DNA damage in 3D-engineered glioblastoma microenvironments

Q Akolawala, M Rovituso, HH Versteeg… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating cancer of the brain with an extremely poor prognosis.
For this reason, besides clinical and preclinical studies, novel in vitro models for the …

Systematic assessment of clinical outcomes and toxicities of proton radiotherapy for reirradiation

V Verma, JCM Rwigema, RS Malyapa… - Radiotherapy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reirradiation (reRT) for locoregional recurrences poses unique challenges and risks; re-
treatment using proton beam radiotherapy (PBT) could prove advantageous. Assessing …

Acute and late toxicities of concurrent chemoradiotherapy for locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer

V Verma, CB Simone, M Werner-Wasik - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
For patients with unresectable locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC),
concurrent chemoradiotherapy improves overall survival as compared to sequential …

Micro‐Vessels‐Like 3D Scaffolds for Studying the Proton Radiobiology of Glioblastoma‐Endothelial Cells Co‐Culture Models

Q Akolawala, F Keuning, M Rovituso… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating cancer of the brain with an extremely poor prognosis.
While X‐ray radiotherapy and chemotherapy remain the current standard, proton beam …

Proton and heavy particle intracranial radiosurgery

EJ Lehrer, AV Prabhu, KK Sindhu, S Lazarev… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) involves the delivery of a highly conformal ablative dose of
radiation to both benign and malignant targets. This has traditionally been accomplished in …

[HTML][HTML] Proton arc therapy increases the benefit of proton therapy for oropharyngeal cancer patients in the model based clinic

BA de Jong, EW Korevaar, A Maring… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose In the model-based approach, patients qualify for proton therapy
when the reduction in risk of toxicity (ΔNTCP) obtained with IMPT relative to VMAT is larger …