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High Energy Proton Therapy for Tumours in Body Sites Other than the Brain

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The success with proton therapy for uveal melanoma, and the advantages of its superior dose localising potential, encouraged interested physicians and physicists to develop hospital based proton therapy centres that could also be used, like the versatile isocentric linear accelerators, for a variety of other cancer sites in the body. The conviction that superior dose distributions will translate to superior local control and survival for cancer patients, keeping the complication rate constant or even lowering it, remained an attraction perpetuating enthusiasm for protons over four decades.

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  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Tygerberg Hospital, Gene Louw Buillding, 7505, Tygerberg, Rep. of South Africa

    Berend J. Smit (Professor)

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Breuer, H., Smit, B.J. (2000). High Energy Proton Therapy for Tumours in Body Sites Other than the Brain. In: Proton Therapy and Radiosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04301-1_11

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