Overview and recent advances in the treatment of neuroblastoma

SB Whittle, V Smith, E Doherty, S Zhao… - Expert review of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Children with neuroblastoma have widely divergent outcomes, ranging from
cure in> 90% of patients with low risk disease to< 50% for those with high risk disease …

Radiation-induced cardiovascular disease: mechanisms and importance of linear energy transfer

CB Sylvester, J Abe, ZS Patel… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Radiation therapy (RT) in the form of photons and protons is a well-established treatment for
cancer. More recently, heavy charged particles have been used to treat radioresistant and …

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 …

Bismuth nanoparticles-enhanced proton therapy: Concept and biological assessment

IN Zavestovskaya, MV Filimonova, AL Popov… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
Proton therapy presents an appealing radiotherapy modality for the treatment of deeply-
seated and unresectable tumors, but it still needs additional means to enhance the …

AAPM Task Group Report 290: Respiratory motion management for particle therapy

H Li, L Dong, C Bert, J Chang, S Flampouri… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dose uncertainty induced by respiratory motion remains a major concern for treating
thoracic and abdominal lesions using particle beams. This Task Group report reviews the …

The insurance approval process for proton radiation therapy: a significant barrier to patient care

MS Ning, DR Gomez, AK Shah, CR Kim… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Proton therapy is increasingly prescribed for cancer treatment, given its potential for
improvements in clinical outcomes and toxicity reduction; however, insurance coverage …

An overview of head and neck tumor reirradiation: What has been achieved so far?

K Gordon, D Smyk, I Gulidov, K Golubev, T Fatkhudinov - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Head and neck cancers are highly prevalent worldwide. Despite the recent
advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment, more than 50% of the cases relapse within 2 …

[HTML][HTML] FLASH radiation therapy: review of the literature and considerations for future research and proton therapy FLASH trials

R Chow, M Kang, S Wei, JI Choi… - Appl Radiat …, 2021 - appliedradiationoncology.com
Radiation therapy (RT) is routinely used in cancer care but may cause acute-and long-term
toxicities as a consequence of ionizing radiation deposition in normal tissues surrounding …

The evolving role of proton beam therapy for sarcomas

S Frisch, B Timmermann - Clinical Oncology, 2017 - Elsevier
As an alternative to conventional photon-based radiotherapy, radiation with protons is
recognised to offer considerable advantages. Today, central nervous system tumours …

Fast dose fractionation using ultra-short laser accelerated proton pulses can increase cancer cell mortality, which relies on functional PARP1 protein

E Bayart, A Flacco, O Delmas, L Pommarel, D Levy… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is a cornerstone of cancer management. The improvement of spatial dose
distribution in the tumor volume by minimizing the dose deposited in the healthy tissues …