Particle Therapy 2017

Proton therapy in physics research laboratories

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Unique selectivity offered by proton therapy

– Attracted specialists in paediatric oncology, neurosurgery and surgeons specialized in treating bone and soft-tissue tumours These specialists joined the physicists, engineers and radiation oncologists who were treating patients in physics research centres Together, they formed specialized teams who further improved the therapeutic results thereby consolidating their top-reference position and centralizing treatment of these rare tumours. • This sequence of events resulted in the ‘historical niche of proton indications’ – –