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Proton Beam Therapy: How Protons are Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment

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Proton beam therapy is an emerging technology with promise of revolutionizing the treatment of cancer. While nearly half of all patients diagnosed with cancer in the US receive radiation therapy, the majority is delivered via electron accelerators, where photons are used to irradiate cancerous tissue. Because of the physical properties of photon beams, photons may deposit energy along their entire path length through the body. On the other hand, a proton beam directed at a tumor travels in a straight trajectory towards its target, gives off most of its energy at a defined depth called the Bragg peak, and then stops. While photons often deposit more energy within the healthy tissues of the body than within the cancer itself, protons can deposit most of their cancer-killing energy within the area of the tumor. As a result, in the properly selected patients, proton beam therapy has the ability to improve cure rates by increasing the dose delivered to the tumor and simultaneously reduce side-effects by decreasing the dose to surrounding tissue. The benefits of proton beam therapy in delivering a lethal hit to the target while sparing surrounding normal tissues from radiation are becoming applicable to an increasing number of patients and a growing list of conditions. In this book, the author will guide the reader through existing evidence supporting proton beam therapy for pediatric cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, brain tumors, spinal tumors, and several other conditions. The book will discuss which conditions are suitable for treatment with proton beam therapy, how the treatment is delivered, and the current data supporting its use.

Determining Health Expectancies
Determining Health Expectancies

Health expectancies were developed to address the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health - replacing quality by quantity.
Health expectancies extend the concept of life expectancy to morbidity and disability by providing a means of dividing life expectancy into life spent in various states
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects
To help people new to the Internet who were interested in learning about U2, a group of U2 fans put together a series of pages that answered common questions and posted them on the Internet. So even before the official U2 site existed, there were unofficial online resources for letting fans and potential fans know more about the...
Complete Vue.js 2 Web Development: Practical guide to building end-to-end web development solutions with Vue.js 2
Complete Vue.js 2 Web Development: Practical guide to building end-to-end web development solutions with Vue.js 2

Become a pro in creating modern interactive web applications using this JavaScript framework

Key Features

  • Explore the exciting features of Vue.js 2 through interesting examples and practical recipes
  • Craft highly modular applications using design patterns and the component...

Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks
Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks

Biomass is a renewable resource, whose utilization has received great attention due to environmental considerations and the increasing demands of energy worldwide. Since the energy crises of the 1970s, many countries have become interested in biomass as a fuel source to expand the development of domestic and renewable energy sources, reduce...

Schaum's Outline of Visual Basic
Schaum's Outline of Visual Basic
Master the fundamentals of Visual Basic with Schaum's­­the high-performance study guide. It will help you cut study time, hone problem-solving skills, and achieve your personal best on exams and projects!

Students love Schaum's Outlines because they produce results. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores...

Quick Results with the Output Delivery System (Art Carpenter's SAS Software)
Quick Results with the Output Delivery System (Art Carpenter's SAS Software)
Improve the appearance of your SAS output today! Learn the basic concepts of the Output Delivery System (ODS) and apply ODS features to your SAS output quickly and effectively. This book discusses issues associated with defining and selecting output destinations, selecting output objects, and creating customized output files. By using the...
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