Comparative effectiveness of proton irradiation treatment / prepared for Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research & Development Service ; prepared by Evidence-Based Synthesis Program (ESP), Coordingating Center, Portland VA Medical Center ; investigators, Kim Peterson, Ellen McCleery, Kallie Waldrip.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Kim, author.

McCleery, Ellen, author.

Waldrip, Kallie, author.

Contributor:

United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Health Services Research and Development Service, issuing body.

Portland VA Medical Center. Evidence-based Synthesis Program Center

Series:

Evidence-based synthesis program (Series)

Evidence-based synthesis program

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radiotherapy--United States.

Radiotherapy.

Proton beams--Therapeutic use--United States.

Proton beams.

Cancer--Treatment--United States.

Cancer.

Proton Therapy.

Neoplasms--radiotherapy.

Comparative Effectiveness Research.

Cancer--Treatment.

Proton beams--Therapeutic use.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Proton Therapy.

Neoplasms--radiotherapy.

Comparative Effectiveness Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 128 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

At head of title: QUERI

Proton irradiation treatment

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Health Services Research & Development Service, 2015.

Summary:

"Maximizing target tumor dose while minimizing healthy tissue damage continues to be a challenge in radiation therapy. Because of its appealing dosimetric characteristics, proton beam therapy (PBT) has held the clinical promise of allowing for higher doses of radiation to be delivered more safely, especially for ocular, skull base, and spinal tumors that require exceptional precision. But the role of protons is less clear for more common tumors, like prostate, where their dosimetric advantages may be diminished and for which intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) can now safely deliver optimally high radiation doses. To help consider the increased number of offers from University Affiliates to provide contracted off-site proton irradiation therapy, the VA Radiation Oncology Program requested that the Evidence-based Synthesis Program Coordinating Center (ESP CC) synthesize the most recent literature on the comparative effectiveness of PBT in various cancers"--Summary

Notes:

"January 2015."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-66).

Online resource; title from PDF cover (VA, viewed March 18, 2021).

OCLC:

945927020