Sentences with phrase «proton radiotherapy»

Importantly, the findings suggest that proton radiotherapy may not be as toxic to the rest of a child's body as conventional radiotherapy.

They conclude: «Proton radiotherapy resulted in acceptable toxicity and had similar survival outcomes to those noted with conventional radiotherapy, suggesting that the use of the treatment may be an alternative to photon - based treatments.»

The authors say: «Our findings suggest that proton radiotherapy seems to result in an acceptable degree of toxicity and had similar survival outcomes to those achieved with photon - based radiotherapy.

Professor Allinson leads the pioneering PRaVDA (Proton Radiotherapy Verification and Dosimetry Applications) project.

Not exact matches

Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, unveiling plans to invest up to # 150 million in procuring a new cutting - edge «proton beam therapy» radiotherapy cancer service — December 2011

Evidence that proton beam therapy is better than conventional radiotherapy is contentious but that hasn't stopped a push for protons.

In nuclear medicine, ion beams — using protons and carbon ions — have been used clinically in the radiotherapy treatment of cancer tumours since the 1990s.

The collaborative project between engineers at Lancaster University and scientists and clinicians at The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and CERN, will develop a prototype «X-band linac structure» that can be retro - fitted on proton beam therapy equipment, which is used in complex radiotherapy treatments at over 50 hospitals around the world.

Proton beam therapy — a more precise form of radiotherapy — to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears to be as safe as conventional radiotherapy with similar survival rates, according to new research published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

«Proton beam therapy offers potential to treat childhood brain cancer with fewer severe side effects than conventional radiotherapy.»

According to Jiang, the chips can slash the time required to calculate a radiotherapy dose: They can reduce the most complex proton - radiotherapy calculation from 70 hours to just 10 seconds.