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Proton Therapy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Three Case Series Describing the Clinical and Dosimetric Advantages of Proton-Based Therapy

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a malignancy of the pleural cavity that typically presents at an advanced stage. Due to its large, circumferential clinical target volume (CTV) and proximity to major structures, including the heart and contralateral lung, delivering hemithoracic intensity-mod...

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Autores principales: Lee, Howard, Zeng, Jing, Bowen, Stephen R, Rengan, Ramesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29159011
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1705