Unique brain injury patterns after proton vs photon radiotherapy for WHO grade 2-3 gliomas
Sebastian F Winter, Melissa M Gardner, Philipp Karschnia, Eugene J Vaios, Clemens Grassberger, Marc R Bussière, Katarina Nikolic, Thanakit Pongpitakmetha, Felix Ehret, David Kaul, Wolfgang Boehmerle, Matthias Endres, Helen A Shih, Michael W Parsons, Jorg Dietrich · 2024
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Sebastian Winter and co-authors compare brain harm from two forms of radiotherapy in this 2024 study. Proton therapy aims to spare healthy brain better than photon therapy. The team tracked harm in patients treated for grade 2-3 gliomas, a type of brain tumor.
They followed 34 patients for three years with repeat MRI scans, half in each group. Both groups showed white matter harm in most cases. Photon cases kept worsening on the side away from the tumor, while proton cases leveled off after one year. Tissue death was more common with protons, though not by a firm margin. Tiny bleeds were much the same in both groups.
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| CREATOR | Sebastian F Winter, Melissa M Gardner, Philipp Karschnia, Eugene J Vaios, Clemens Grassberger, Marc R Bussière, Katarina Nikolic, Thanakit Pongpitakmetha, Felix Ehret, David Kaul, Wolfgang Boehmerle, Matthias Endres, Helen A Shih, Michael W Parsons, Jorg Dietrich |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |