Photons vs. protons for treatment of spinal cord gliomas

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 22:31 in Health & Medicine

A study comparing the long-term outcomes of patients with spinal-cord tumors following radiation therapy suggests that certain subsets of patients have better long-term survival, and that photon-based radiation therapy may result in better survival than proton-beam therapy, even in patients with more favorable characteristics.

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