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ASTRO: Proton Radiation Linked to Lower Risk of Second Malignancy
Posted by: Ubertramp on 2008.09.27
Categories & Tags: Cancer Risk,Protons,Radiation,Radiotherapy,Secondary Malignancies,Society Meeting
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This just in: .
BOSTON, Sept. 22 — Proton therapy may cut the risk of a second malignancy by half compared with conventional radiation treatment, results of a retrospective comparison suggested.
Almost 13% of patients treated with photon energy developed second malignancies compared with 6.4% of those treated with proton-based radiation, Nancy Tarbell, M.D., of Harvard, reported at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting here.
The rest of the article can be found here. I still can’t get a link to the actual paper or abstract, though.
