Proton beam therapy for cancer in the era of precision medicine

Abstract Precision radiotherapy, which accurately delivers the dose on a tumor and confers little or no irradiation to the surrounding normal tissue and organs, results in maximum tumor control and decreases the toxicity to the utmost extent. Proton beam therapy (PBT) provides superior dose distribu...

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Main Authors: Man Hu, Liyang Jiang, Xiangli Cui, Jianguang Zhang, Jinming Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Hematology & Oncology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13045-018-0683-4