What Types of Cancers are Best Suited for Proton Therapy?
Proton therapy can be used to treat about 80% of all cancers that affect children. This treatment is a best fit for solid tumors with a well-defined shape that have not spread to other parts of the body. These include:
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Brain and spinal tumorsShow
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- Astrocytoma
- Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRT)
- Craniopharyngioma
- Ependymoma
- Intracranial germ cell tumors (germinoma)
- Low grade glioma
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningioma
- Optic nerve tumors
- Optic pathway/hypothalamic glioma
- Primitive neuro-ectodermal tumor (intracranial PNET)
- Retinoblastoma
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Solid tumors and sarcomasShow
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- Chondrosarcoma
- Chordoma
- Ewing sarcoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Non-rhabdo soft tissue sarcomas, including:
- Angiosarcoma
- Synovial sarcoma
- Epithelioid sarcoma
- Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor (DSRCT)
- Tumors of the head and neck
- Wilms tumor
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LymphomasShow
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- Hodgkin’s
- Non-Hodgkin’s