Indications of use for Proton therapy devices
Proton therapy can benefit, according to the literature, adult and pediatric patients with a diverse range of indications
Pediatric
- CNS tumors
- Medulloblastoma
- Ependymoma
- Craniopharyngioma
- Low grade glioma
- Germ cell tumors
- Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Ewings sarcoma
- Soft tissue sarcoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Lymphoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Retinoblastoma
Adult
- Ocular tumors
- Tumors of the skull base and spine
- Liver cancer
- Lymphoma
- CNS tumors
- Head and neck cancer
- Lung cancer
- Thymic malignancies
- Gastrointestinal cancer (non-liver)
- Pancreatic cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Breast cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Gynecologic cancer
- Sarcoma