Should patients requiring radiotherapy for breast cancer be treated with proton beam therapy?
BMJ
.
2023 Jun 9:381:e072896.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2022-072896.
Authors
Anna M Kirby
1
,
Francesca Holt
2
,
Carolyn W Taylor
2
,
Joanne S Haviland
3
,
Mairead MacKenzie
4
,
Charlotte E Coles
5
Affiliations
1
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust & Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
[email protected]
.
2
Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK.
3
Centre for Evaluation and Methods, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
4
Independent Cancer Patients' Voice, UK (patient author).
5
Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, UK.
PMID:
37295798
DOI:
10.1136/bmj-2022-072896
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Breast Neoplasms* / etiology
Breast Neoplasms* / radiotherapy
Female
Humans
Proton Therapy*
Radiotherapy Dosage
Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated* / adverse effects
Grants and funding
19727/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom
28284/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom