Proton therapy: Expanding clinical indications

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 324-325

  Jones, B ^a   Price, P ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; HADRON; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNCHROTRON; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 3242765345     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2004.04.007     Document Type: Editorial

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