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Treatment Options => Radiation / Radiosurgery => Topic started by: Mark on April 24, 2007, 08:04:35 pm

Title: proton beam Studies
Post by: Mark on April 24, 2007, 08:04:35 pm

A question was asked on the CPSG board about Proton beam vs. GK and CK and Dr. Medbery referenced 3 different studies from Mass general , Loma Linda and Stanford ( I'm starting to wonder if there is a machine Stanford doesn't have  :) ). Generally favorable outcomes reported, although it appeared to me that there was a higher incidence of post treatment complications, particularly in the Mass General report. There are not a lot of studies on Proton beam so I thought this might be useful for those researching that option

http://www.cyberknifesupport.org/forum/default.aspx?f=1&m=12036

Mark

Title: Re: proton beam Studies
Post by: ppearl214 on April 26, 2007, 08:28:18 am

Mark, you rawk! :) Thank you for sharing this with us!

P

Title: Re: proton beam Studies
Post by: ceeceek on April 26, 2007, 09:28:04 pm

Great info..
 I was looking at proton in event my little growth turned out to be a particular type of tumor...lucky for me it wasnt..but great to have the info....relatively new type of treatment here in US..lots of info from China....
Ceeceek