Proton therapy for brain tumours in the area of evidence-based medicine

Br J Radiol. 2020 Mar;93(1107):20190237. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20190237. Epub 2019 May 20.

Authors

Damien C Weber^{1

2

3}, Pei S Lim¹, Sebastien Tran¹, Marc Walser¹, Alessandra Bolsi¹, Ulrike Kliebsch¹, Jürgen Beer¹, Barbara Bachtiary¹, Tony Lomax^{1

4}, Alessia Pica¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Proton Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
² University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
³ University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Physics, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.

Abstract

This review details the indication of brain tumors for proton therapy and give a list of the open prospective trials for these challenging tumors.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Brain / radiation effects
Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
Child
Chondrosarcoma / diagnostic imaging
Chondrosarcoma / radiotherapy
Chordoma / diagnostic imaging
Chordoma / radiotherapy
Clinical Trials as Topic
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Evidence-Based Medicine*
Humans
Prospective Studies
Proton Therapy / economics
Proton Therapy / methods*
Proton Therapy / trends
Radiotherapy Dosage
Skull Base Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Skull Base Neoplasms / radiotherapy