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According to a recently published research letter, men with prostate cancer who live close to the Loma Linda proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) center are five times more likely to choose PBRT for their treatment than are other men who live in California but don’t live close to Loma Linda! DUH!
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: Loma Linda, PBRT, proton beam | 2 Comments »
A media release issued yesterday by ASTRO reads as follows:
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: brachytherapy, efficacy, outcome, PBRT, proton beam, radiation therapy, safety | 5 Comments »
An article in today’s New York Times will be a red rag to the advocates for proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT).
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cost, outcome, PBRT, proton beam radiation therapy | 3 Comments »
Over the past 20 years there has been an explosion in the different ways that we use varied types of external beam radiation therapy for the treatment of localized and locally advanced forms of prostate cancer. Where is the newly diagnosed patient able to find a good, basic introduction?
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: 3D-CRT, CyberKnife, EBRT, external beam radiation therapy, IGRT, IMRT, introduction, PBRT, SBRT, TomoTherapy | 2 Comments »
Three new articles in the June 15 issue of Oncology review the current data and the potential of proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) as a first-line treatment for localized prostate cancer. The full texts of all three articles are available on line.
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It would be all too easy to get the idea — from the title and abstract of a recently published study — that proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) was more effective than permanent seed brachytherapy in the treatment of men with low- and some intermediate-risk prostate cancers. This would be a very inappropriate conclusion.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: beam, brachytherapy, comparison, EBRT, external, outcome, PBRT, proton, radiation therapy | 4 Comments »
In a poster today at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, data was presented on 4-year follow-up of quality of life (QOL) among men treated with conformal proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT).
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: outcomes, PBRT, proton beam radiation therapy, QOL, quality of life | 6 Comments »
A new report from researchers at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute offers us some additional information on the short-term outcomes of first-line treatment with image-guided proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) for localized prostate cancer.
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Media reports are now telling us that the Mayo Clinic will be opening not just one but two new proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) centers — at a total cost of $370 million.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: Mayo Clinic, PBRT, proton beam radiation | 13 Comments »
Paul Levy is the President and CEO of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston (which is no small institution). He is not an enthusiastic advocate for the sudden growth in the number of proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) centers in the US in the past 3 years. You want to see why, just [...]
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A new article on the WebMD web site appears under the heading “Targeted radiation may help men avoid impotence,” but it is the incidence of adverse genitourinary (GU) obstructive symptoms during and after treatment that is of greater interest to The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: adverse effect, erectile function, genitourinary, obstructive, ouctome, PBRT, proton beam, radiation | 5 Comments »
ACR 03-12 is a Phase II clinical trial designed by the American College of Radiology to test the safety and efficacy of 82 GyE (Gray equivalent) delivered using conformal proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) for the treatment of localized prostate cancer.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: high-dose, PBRT, proton beam radiation therapy, toxicity | 2 Comments »
We have previously referred readers to a series of articles on the growing number of proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) centers in the US, most of which appear to be highly dependent on prostate cancer patients for their revenue and their economic viability.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: Hampton, PBRT, proton beam radiation therapy | 4 Comments »
Over the years there have been almost no publications addressing the complications of proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) among well-defined series of prostate cancer patients. With the number of PBRT centers now growing fast, good data on the side effects of PBRT are an urgent priority.
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According to an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune on Monday, Scripps Health has partnered with others to develop a new proton beam radiation therapy center in San Diego. This would be the second PBRT center on the West Coast and supposedly it will be able to treat its first patients in 2013.
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