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[Seldon1985]

Protons in the news...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324296604578177802556030578.html


Article:

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/13/jnci.djs463.abstract

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[Gfunk6]

Well they do clarify numerous times in the article that radiation = "regular radiation" or "traditional radiation."

 

[radiaterMike]

Does anyone have a link to the JNCI article? I could not find it it PubMed or the JNCI website.

I did find the ASCO abstract:

http://www.asco.org/ASCOv2/Meetings/Abstracts?&vmview=abst_detail_view&confID=114&abstractID=94883

There was a similar article published by UNC (Medicare database), although it had major flaws as described in the editorials on this paper (i.e gauging toxicity based on procedural codes, which may actually reflect procedures offered to patients as part of a Loma Linda protocol).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22511689

 

[Seldon1985]

Added article link in original post.

Yes, agreed GFunk, just misleading for the general population that reads the article quickly and superficially. I do train at a program with protons and its true that many believe that protons are not a form of radiation therapy.

 

[medgator]

Does anyone have a link to the JNCI article? I could not find it it PubMed or the JNCI website.

I did find the ASCO abstract:

http://www.asco.org/ASCOv2/Meetings/Abstracts?&vmview=abst_detail_view&confID=114&abstractID=94883

There was a similar article published by UNC (Medicare database), although it had major flaws as described in the editorials on this paper (i.e gauging toxicity based on procedural codes, which may actually reflect procedures offered to patients as part of a Loma Linda protocol).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22511689

http://m.jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/13/jnci.djs463.abstract

 

[inyoface]

And this one from the Red Journal:

http://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(12)03738-8/abstract

Looks like protons have taken a battering in the literature recently...