Pattern of Radiotherapy Treatment in Low-Risk, Intermediate-Risk, and High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients: Analysis of National Cancer Database by Rishabh Agrawal, Asoke Dey, Sujay Datta, Ana Nassar, William Grubb, Bryan Traughber, Tithi Biswas, Roger Ove, Tarun Podder

“…A slightly better survival probability was observed for the proton therapy group. Hormonal therapy was used for a large number of patients in all risk groups. …”
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Multi-Institutional Retrospective Study of Radiotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Caudate Lobe by Sung Uk Lee, Sang Min Yoon, Jason Chia-Hsien Cheng, Tae Hyun Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Bo Hyun Kim, Jin-hong Park, Jinhong Jung, Chiao-Ling Tsai, Yun Chiang, Joong-Won Park

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Radiotherapy for Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis in Breast Cancer Patients: A Narrative Review by Ewa Pawłowska, Anna Romanowska, Jacek Jassem

“…A separate section is dedicated to new RT techniques, such as proton therapy. We also summarize ongoing clinical trials evaluating the role of RT in patients with LC.…”
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Application and Update of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Cervical Cancer by Yuxuan LIN, Weimin KONG, Yuanjing WANG, Fengshuang LI

“…In addition, the researches on the use of individualized radiotherapy guided by imaging indicators and proton therapy are also in progress. This paper presents the basic knowledge of radiotherapy for cervical cancer and the application of radiotherapy in the treatment of cervical cancer, summarizes the application of new technologies, and proposes issues that need to be emphasized in the use of new technologies, in order to guide clinical application.…”
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External Urethral Orifice Metastasis of Cervical Cancer Treated With Intraluminal Urethral Brachytherapy Using a Lumencath Applicator: The First Case Report by Yoshiaki Takagawa, MD, Sachiko Izumi, MD, Tomoyuki Okano, RTT, Eiichi Takahashi, RTT, Yuki Wakamatsu, RTT, Megumi Takahara, MD, Haruka Okada, MD, Midori Kita, MD, PhD

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Differential normal skin transcriptomic response in total body irradiated mice exposed to scattered versus scanned proton beams by Alexandre Leduc, Samia Chaouni, Frédéric Pouzoulet, Ludovic De Marzi, Frédérique Megnin-Chanet, Erwan Corre, Dinu Stefan, Jean-Louis Habrand, François Sichel, Carine Laurent

“…Abstract Proton therapy allows to avoid excess radiation dose on normal tissues. …”
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Simplified sigmoidal curve fitting for a 6 MV FFF photon beam of the Halcyon to determine the field size for beam commissioning and quality assurance by Min-Geon Choi, Martin Law, Do-Kun Yoon, Mikoto Tamura, Kenji Matsumoto, Masakazu Otsuka, Moo-Sub Kim, Shih-Kien Djeng, Hajime Monzen, Tae Suk Suh

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Reddit and Radiation Therapy: A Descriptive Analysis of Posts and Comments Over 7 Years by Patients and Health Care Professionals by Joel Thomas, BA, Arpan V. Prabhu, MD, Dwight E. Heron, MD, MBA, FACRO FACR, Sushil Beriwal, MD, MBA

“…Common themes included treatment questions, chronology, and treatment; toxicities; and social support. Proton therapy received notable attention.…”
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P068: A Retrospective Analysis of Fertility in Female Patients with Advanced Stages of Hodgkin Lymphoma Treated with BEACOPP Escalated Chemotherapy (25 Year Experience of a Single... by Jana Marková, Heidi Mociková, Lubica Gaherová, Katerina Klásková, Maria Maco, Katerina Dedeckova, Tomas Kozak

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Correction: Kudura et al. Prediction of Early Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition Using FDG-PET/CT in Melanoma Patients. <i>Cancers</i> 2021, <i>13</i>, 3830 by Ken Kudura, Florentia Dimitriou, Lucas Basler, Robert Förster, Daniela Mihic-Probst, Tim Kutzker, Reinhard Dummer, Joanna Mangana, Irene A. Burger, Michael C. Kreissl

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A case report of pseudoprogression followed by complete remission after proton-beam irradiation for a low-grade glioma in a teenager: the value of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI by Sainte-Rose Christian, Varlet Pascale, Habrand Jean-Louis, Ducreux Denis, Dhermain Frédéric, Meyzer Candice, Dufour Christelle, Grill Jacques

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>A fourteen years-old boy was treated post-operatively with proton therapy for a recurrent low-grade oligodendroglioma located in the tectal region. …”
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Applications of Noble Metal-Based Nanoparticles in Medicine by Bartosz Klębowski, Joanna Depciuch, Magdalena Parlińska-Wojtan, Jarek Baran

“…There are a lot of applications of nanoparticles, e.g., as drug delivery systems, radiosensitizers in radiation or proton therapy, in bioimaging, or as bactericides/fungicides. …”
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Building dependability arguments for software intensive systems by Seater, Robert Morrison

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Intraoperative Placement of an Absorbable Spacer Prior to Radiation Therapy for a Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor by Yuki Endo, Taichi Fukuzawa, Masahiro Irie, Hideyuki Sasaki, Hironori Kudo, Ryo Ando, Ryuji Okubo, Saori Katayama, Masatoshi Hashimoto, Kosuke Sato, Masahito Tachibana, Hidekazu Aoki, Masayuki Araya, Koichi Hirabayashi, Shoji Saito, Hidekazu Masaki, Yozo Nakazawa, Yoji Sasahara, Motoshi Wada

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Experimental validation of proton boron capture therapy for glioma cells by Tatiana Shtam, Vladimir Burdakov, Alina Garina, Luiza Garaeva, Nhan Hau Tran, Andrey Volnitskiy, Eva Kuus, Dmitry Amerkanov, Fedor Pack, Georgy Andreev, Andrey Lubinskiy, Konstantin Shabalin, Nicolay Verlov, Evgeniy Ivanov, Victor Ezhov, Dmitry Lebedev, Andrey L. Konevega

“…Abstract Proton boron capture therapy (PBCT) has emerged from particle acceleration research for enhancing the biological effectiveness of proton therapy. The mechanism responsible for the dose increase was supposed to be related to proton-boron fusion reactions (11B + p → 3α + 8.7 MeV). …”
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FLASH Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Symptomatic Bone Metastases (FAST-01): Protocol for the First Prospective Feasibility Study by Emily C Daugherty, Anthony Mascia, Yong Zhang, Eunsin Lee, Zhiyan Xiao, Mathieu Sertorio, Jennifer Woo, Claire McCann, Kenneth Russell, Lisa Levine, Ricky Sharma, Deepak Khuntia, Jeffrey Bradley, Charles B Simone II, John Perentesis, John Breneman

“…A FLASH-enabled Varian ProBeam proton therapy unit will be used to deliver treatment to the target volume at a dose rate of ≥40 Gy per second, using the plateau (transmission) portion of the proton beam. …”
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The rationale for a carbon ion radiation therapy facility in Australia by David I. Thwaites, Dale A. Prokopovich, Richard F. Garrett, Annette Haworth, Anatoly Rosenfeld, Verity Ahern

“…This supports the under‐construction proton therapy facility in Adelaide, other potential proton centres and an under‐evaluation proposal for a hybrid carbon ion and proton centre in western Sydney. …”
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A scanning dynamic collimator for spot-scanning proton minibeam production by Marios Sotiropoulos, Yolanda Prezado

“…The new collimator system proposed is able to produce any minibeam required on an on-line basis by modulating the pencil beam spots of modern proton therapy machines, rather than a uniform field. …”
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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Centrally Located Non-small Cell Lung Cancer by Yuming WAN, Jing HUANG, Feng XU

“…This paper will review the definition, indication, dose regimens, dose-volume constraints for organs at risk, radiation technology, treatment side effect of centrally located NSCLC treated with SBRT and stereotactic body proton therapy.…”
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The Role of Mass Spectrometry in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Biomarker Discovery by Eric Yi-Liang Shen, Mei Ran Abellona U, I. Jane Cox, Simon D. Taylor-Robinson

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