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Particle therapy

Particle therapy

Protons plus photons: the optimal combination

09 Feb 2018 Tami Freeman
Single modality and optimized proton–photon plans
(a) Patient with a sacral chordoma; the contours show the GTV (green), CTV (purple), PTV (blue) and the bowel (red); (b, c) dose distributions of the single-modality IMRT and IMPT plans; (d–f) optimized combined proton–photon combination 1 with 10 IMPT and 20 IMRT fractions: (e) IMRT dose distribution, (f) IMPT dose distribution, (d) cumulative equieffective dose of the combined treatment. (Reprinted from Radiother. Oncol. 10.1016/j.radonc.2017.12.031 ©2018, with permission from Elsevier)
Proton therapy is a limited resource that’s available to relatively few cancer patients. But a

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