Roadmap: helium ion therapy

A Mairani, S Mein, E Blakely, J Debus… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Helium ion beam therapy for the treatment of cancer was one of several developed and
studied particle treatments in the 1950s, leading to clinical trials beginning in 1975 at the …

Proton versus photon radiation therapy: A clinical review

Z Chen, MM Dominello, MC Joiner… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
While proton radiation therapy offers substantially better dose distribution characteristics
than photon radiation therapy in certain clinical applications, data demonstrating a …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of cognitive and neural recovery in survivors of pediatric brain tumors in a pilot clinical trial using metformin

R Ayoub, RM Ruddy, E Cox, A Oyefiade, D Derkach… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
We asked whether pharmacological stimulation of endogenous neural precursor cells
(NPCs) may promote cognitive recovery and brain repair, focusing on the drug metformin, in …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive risk in survivors of pediatric brain tumors

A Oyefiade, I Paltin, CR De Luca, KK Hardy… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pediatric brain tumors (PBTs), the most common solid tumors of childhood, are a leading
cause of cancerrelated morbidity. Advancements in treatment have significantly improved …

Late effects of radiation therapy in pediatric patients and survivorship

JD Palmer, DS Tsang, CL Tinkle, AJ Olch… - Pediatric blood & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in multimodality therapy have led to childhood cancer cure rates over 80%.
However, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy may lead to debilitating or even fatal …

Mechanisms and review of clinical evidence of variations in relative biological effectiveness in proton therapy

H Paganetti - International Journal of Radiation Oncology* Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Proton therapy is increasingly being used as a radiation therapy modality. There is
uncertainty about the biological effectiveness of protons relative to photon therapies as it …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing progress in radiotherapy for global cancer control

DA Jaffray, F Knaul, M Baumann, M Gospodarowicz - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The pace of technological innovation over the past three decades has transformed the field
of radiotherapy into one of the most technologically intense disciplines in medicine …

New developments in the pathogenesis, therapeutic targeting, and treatment of pediatric medulloblastoma

FY Fang, JS Rosenblum, WS Ho, JD Heiss - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Medulloblastoma is the most common pediatric brain tumor, comprising
one-third of all pediatric brain tumors, and originating in the posterior fossa of the brain. The …

[HTML][HTML] Medulloblastoma in the modern era: review of contemporary trials, molecular advances, and updates in management

MA Lazow, JD Palmer, M Fouladi, R Salloum - Neurotherapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Critical discoveries over the past two decades have transformed our understanding of
medulloblastoma from a single entity into a clinically and biologically heterogeneous …

Modern radiotherapy for pediatric brain tumors

NJ DeNunzio, TI Yock - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death in children with tumors of the central nervous system, the
most commonly encountered solid malignancies in this population. Radiotherapy (RT) is an …