Proton therapy for selected low grade glioma patients in the Netherlands
Proton therapy offers an attractive alternative to conventional photon-based radiotherapy in low grade glioma patients, delivering radiotherapy with equivalent efficacy to the tumour with less radiation exposure to the brain. In the Netherlands, patients with favourable prognosis based on tumour and patient characteristics can be offered proton therapy. Radiation-induced neurocognitive function decline is a major concern in these long surviving patients. Although level 1 evidence of superior clinical outcome with proton therapy is lacking, the Dutch National Health Care Institute concluded tha... Mehr ...
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van der Weide, Hiska L
Kramer, Miranda C A
Scandurra, Daniel
Eekers, Daniëlle B P
Klaver, Yvonne L B
Wiggenraad, Ruud G J
Méndez Romero, Alejandra
Coremans, Ida E M
Boersma, Liesbeth
van Vulpen, Marco
Langendijk, Johannes A |
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Artikel |
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2021 |
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Dutch Society for Radiation Oncology NVRO , van der Weide , H L , Kramer , M C A , Scandurra , D , Eekers , D B P , Klaver , Y L B , Wiggenraad , R G J , Méndez Romero , A , Coremans , I E M , Boersma , L , van Vulpen , M & Langendijk , J A 2021 , ' Proton therapy for selected low grade glioma patients in the Netherlands ' , Radiotherapy and Oncology , vol. 154 , pp. 283-290 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2020.11.004 |
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Englisch |
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https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29190730 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/11370/3bad4229-316a-4cb2-8a8f-c1b221283027 |