Radiation Therapy With Protons or Photons in Treating Patients With Liver Cancer

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2017
This phase III trial studies how well radiation therapy with protons works compared with photons in treating patients with liver cancer. Radiation therapy, such as photon therapy, uses high energy x-rays to send the radiation inside the body to the tumor while proton therapy uses a beam of proton particles. Proton therapy can stop shortly after penetrating through the tumor and may cause less damage to the surrounding healthy organs and result in better survival in patients with liver cancer.
Epistemonikos ID: 5a76fddf340ea37738fcdcc74d7ac43deb83303e
First added on: May 20, 2024