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Healthcare Professionals   /   OncoLink Scientific Meetings Coverage   /   PTCOG   /   OncoLink at PTCOG 2011   /   PTCOG May 14, 2011

PTCOG May 14, 2011

OncoLink reporters provide up-to-date coverage of the annual Particle Therapy Cooperative Group (PTCOG 50) meeting in Philadelphia, PA, May 8-14, 2011.

Hypofractionated proton beam scanning radiotherapy for prostate cancer
Presenter: Herbst M, Wilms M, Dohr D, Hillbrand M. Presenter's Affiliation: Renecker Proton Therapy Center, Munich, Germany Background Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer found in men, with approximately 200,000 cases...
Phase II clinical studies of high-dose proton therapy in stage I/II and III non-small cell lung cancer
Presenter: Joe Y. Chang, MD PhD Presenter's Affiliation: MD Anderson Cancer Center Background NSCLC is a prevalent and deadly disease. Over 160,000 cases are diagnosed per year in the U.S., and over 157,000 deaths occur. For early stage...
Proton beam therapy for locally advanced Sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma
Presenter: Marco Cianchetti, M.D., Annie W. Chan, M.D., Minh T. Truong, M.D., Judy G. Adams, C.M.D., Paul M. Busse, M.D., Norbert J. Liebsch, M.D., and Jing J. Wang, M.P.H. Presenter's Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Cancer...
Proton therapy of esthesioneuroblastoma
Presenter: Robert Malyapa MD, PhD Presenter's Affiliation: University of Florida Background Esthesioneuroblastoma, also know as olfactory neuroblastoma, is a rare malignancy originating from the olfactory epithelium in the roof of the...
Scanning proton beam radiotherapy under functional apnea
Presenter: Eckermann M, Hillbrand M, Herbst M, Rinecker H Presenter's Affiliation: Rinecker Proton Therapy Center, Munich, Germany Background Proton therapy potentially has numerous advantages to conventional radiation therapy when treating...
Spot scanning proton therapy: single field simultaneous integrated boost
Presenter: X Ronald Zhu, PhD Presenter's Affiliation: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Background Spot scanning proton therapy (SSPT) is the fast, dynamic scanning of a proton pencil beam over a target volume to provide better...
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