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Particle therapy

Particle therapy

Proton therapy on an upward trajectory while FLASH treatment schemes get ready to shine

24 Oct 2023

Innovation in proton therapy was front-and-centre at the ASTRO Annual Meeting, along with advances in other cutting-edge modalities – among them MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy, combined immunotherapy–radiotherapy approaches and stereotactic treatments for oligometatastic disease. Joe McEntee reports

The Roberts Proton Therapy Center in Philadelphia
Pioneering protons The Roberts Proton Therapy Center in Philadelphia has five treatment rooms (one of which is shown above) and a research room dedicated to proton therapy; there are also five co-located treatment rooms for conventional radiation therapy. The facility treats more than 100 patients each day with proton therapy. (Courtesy: Roberts Proton Therapy Center)
While proton therapy has well and truly arrived as a mainstream treatment option in radiation oncolo

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Joe McEntee is a consultant editor based in South Gloucestershire, UK
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