Masashi Mizumoto, Hiroshi Fuji, Mitsuru Miyachi, Toshinori Soejima, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Norihiro Aibe, Yusuke Demizu, Hiromitsu Iwata, Takayuki Hashimoto, Atsushi Motegi, Atsufumi Kawamura, Keita Terashima, Takashi Fukushima, Tomohei Nakao, Akinori Takada, Minako Sumi, Junjiro Oshima, Kensuke Moriwaki, Miwako Nozaki, Yuji Ishida, Yoshiyuki Kosaka, Keisuke Ae, Ako Hosono, Hideyuki Harada, Etsuyo Ogo, Tetsuo Akimoto, Takashi Saito, Hiroko Fukushima, Ryoko Suzuki, Mitsuru Takahashi, Takayuki Matsuo, Akira Matsumura, Hidekazu Masaki, Hajime Hosoi, Naoyuki Shigematsu, Hideyuki Sakurai
Children and adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are often treated with a multidisciplinary approach. This includes use of radiotherapy, which is important for local control, but may also cause adverse events in the long term, including second cancer. The risks for limited growth and development, endocrine dysfunction, reduced fertility and second cancer in children and AYAs are reduced by proton beam therapy (PBT), which has a dose distribution that decreases irradiation of normal organs while still targeting the tumor...
April 16, 2021: Cancer Treatment Reviews