[Protontherapy : principles, advantages, limitations, indications, perspectives...and some Belgian peculiarities].
(2024) Revue médicale de Liège — Vol. 79, n° S1, p. 9-15 (2024)
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- Most radiotherapy treatments are nowadays delivered with linear accelerators producing photons. This robust radiation technique improved outstandingly during the last three decades, allowing treatments for most tumoural indications with an exquisite accuracy, a formidable effectiveness, a low toxicity, and a very low cost for the society. Therefore, the reasons for using and developing the more expensive hadron therapy and more particularly proton therapy may seem futile. In the current article targeting the general practitioners readership, we look at the principles of this innovative technique, its inherent advantages and limitations, the current and future indications, the challenges and perspectives for the future. We conclude with an overview of the Belgian landscape in terms of installation, operation, access and reimbursement procedures.
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Daisne, J.-F., Isebaert, S., Geets, X., Donnay, L., & Sterpin, E. (2024). [Protontherapy : principles, advantages, limitations, indications, perspectives...and some Belgian peculiarities]. Revue médicale de Liège, 79(S1), 9-15. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/214015 (Original work published 2024)