Proton beam therapy for childhood malignancies: Status report

Klinische Padiatrie

Volumn 222, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 127-133

  Timmermann, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Children; Irradiation; Proton beam therapy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; CATARACT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENOPHTHALMOS; EPENDYMOMA; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SEIZURE; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COOPERATION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; EYE NEOPLASMS; GERMANY; INFANT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; SARCOMA; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; EYE NEOPLASMS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SARCOMA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

PROTON;

EID: 77953158153     PISSN: 03008630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1249657     Document Type: Review

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