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Determining Out-of-Field Doses and Second Cancer Risk From Proton Therapy in Young Patients—An Overview

Proton therapy has the potential to provide survival and tumor control outcomes comparable and frequently superior to photon therapy. This has led to a significant concern in the medical physics community on the risk for the induction of second cancers in all patients and especially in younger patie...

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Autores principales: Romero-Expósito, Maite, Toma-Dasu, Iuliana, Dasu, Alexandru
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9197425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712488
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.892078