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Proton beam therapy and localised prostate cancer: current status and controversies

Proton therapy is a promising, but costly, treatment for prostate cancer. Theoretical physical advantages exist; yet to date, it has been shown only to be comparably safe and effective when compared with the alternatives and not necessarily superior. If clinically meaningful benefits do exist for pa...

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Autores principales: Efstathiou, J A, Gray, P J, Zietman, A L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3619274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23481182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2013.100
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description Proton therapy is a promising, but costly, treatment for prostate cancer. Theoretical physical advantages exist; yet to date, it has been shown only to be comparably safe and effective when compared with the alternatives and not necessarily superior. If clinically meaningful benefits do exist for patients, more rigorous study will be needed to detect them and society will require this to justify the investment of time and money. New technical advances in proton beam delivery coupled with shortened overall treatment times and declining device costs have the potential to make this a more cost-effective therapy in the years ahead.
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spelling pubmed-36192742014-04-02 Proton beam therapy and localised prostate cancer: current status and controversies Efstathiou, J A Gray, P J Zietman, A L Br J Cancer Minireview Proton therapy is a promising, but costly, treatment for prostate cancer. Theoretical physical advantages exist; yet to date, it has been shown only to be comparably safe and effective when compared with the alternatives and not necessarily superior. If clinically meaningful benefits do exist for patients, more rigorous study will be needed to detect them and society will require this to justify the investment of time and money. New technical advances in proton beam delivery coupled with shortened overall treatment times and declining device costs have the potential to make this a more cost-effective therapy in the years ahead. Nature Publishing Group 2013-04-02 2013-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3619274/ /pubmed/23481182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2013.100 Text en Copyright © 2013 Cancer Research UK http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ From twelve months after its original publication, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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Proton beam therapy and localised prostate cancer: current status and controversies
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title_full Proton beam therapy and localised prostate cancer: current status and controversies
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title_short Proton beam therapy and localised prostate cancer: current status and controversies
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