Because children are more sensitive to radiation than adults, conventional radiotherapy may induce critical organs injury, for example, liver, kidney, spinal cord, ovary, or testis.
This problem could be solved by proton therapy. Through this precise ¡°guided, localized explosion¡± technique, the important organs and tissues can be spared.
More than 100 children have been treated in Loma Linda medical center in American. No side effects have been reported.
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Medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma, other brain and spinal cord tumour
Eye and intraocular tumour
Base of skull and spine tumour, lymphoma
Pelvis tumour. |
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