Protontherapy Versus Carbon Ion Therapy

Advantages, Disadvantages and Similarities

By: Marcos d'Ávila Nunes

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Paperback | 22 October 2016

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INTRODUCTION.- Brief history of Radiotherapy.- Cancer: Statistical analysis.- Conventional radiotherapy.- Protontherapy.- Carbon ion therapy.- Hadrontherapy Timeline.- EQUIPMENTS AND TECHNIQUES.- The Cyclotron, Ernest Orlando Lawrence / Equations.- The Proton Synchrotron / Equations.- C400 from IBA / Hybrid system. When to use cyclotron or synchrotron: Power and current.- Synchrotron at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Heidelberg, CNAO, NIRS (Japan). PTCOG.- Gantry specifications. Compact gantry.- How to obtain particles (protons, neutrons) and heavy ions for hadron therapy.- Relativistic velocities.- Carbon ion therapy at Berkeley.- Other techniques in development: Dielectric Wall Accelerator and Laser.- Analytical: small samples and different equipment.- ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES, SIMILARITIES. DISCUSSION.- Stopping power.- LET and RBE (determination), Vienna's Congress.- Phanton.- Radiation dose.- Intensity-controlled raster scan method.- Impact of radiation at the microscopic level.- Table. Explanation.- Fluka: a simulation code.- Estimating the risk of second malignancies.- Comments and discussion on Positrons.- WHEN CARBON ION THERAPY MUST BE USED.- Elective indications for carbon ion therapy.- Recurrent tumors.- Children tumors.- Chordoma/chondrosarcoma.- Malignant salivary gland tumors.- Malignant melanoma of the paranasal sinus.- Soft tissue sarcomas and bone tumors.- Early stage lung cancer.- Liver tumors.- Prostate carcinoma.- New centers of carbon ion therapy.

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"As a cancer survivor and an academic physicist, the author clearly expresses his interest in helping other cancer patients by providing useful information, such as that regarding hadron therapy, for alleviating their suffering and pain. Students, residents, and even radiation oncologists, physicists, therapists, and engineers working in radiation therapy may find some of the material interesting and refreshing from this unique perspective." (Chang Ming Charlie Ma, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2016)

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