In some cases, proton therapy is the only radiation available to breast cancer patients suffering a recurrence. In an interview at the National Proton Conference, Dr. Marcio Fagundes, medical director of the Provision Center for Proton Therapy, Knoxville, Tenn., said, "Women who have received prior radiation to the breast or the chest wall after a mastectomy may develop a recurrence where the tumor comes back in the lymph nodes behind the sternal bone, the internal mammary nodes located right on top of the heart. This is an area that is very difficult to treat if you're not using a tool like proton therapy that can selectively deposit the dose right there. We can do the treatment and not expose the heart and selectively deposit the dose right there. So that is a subset of patients for whom proton therapy may be the only way to treat them."
Proton therapy is not only effective for breast cancer, but for many other adult and pediatric cancers. There are currently 14 operating proton therapy centers in the U.S., with about a dozen more in development. For more information on proton therapy, visit www.proton-therapy.org.
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Tahmine Hoseinkhani
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January 22, 2015 04:39
Hi
my name is tahmine
I am student in medical physics department in medical faculty in Iran
I am tend to proton thrapy but I dont know I must be started from where?
this paper is usefull
but I am not a text book of proton therapy .
I am search and read about physics of proton therapy and carbon therapy in slides , and positive points in this method compare to radiotherapy but I dont know about negative points of poroton therapy and its limits .
if you have free time answered me and advice me a plan for study in this course
please if you have particles about modelling poroton therapy projects that are published tell me that how I can access ...
excuseme for my bad english writing
hoseinkhanitahmine@yahoo.com
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