Will we need proton therapy in the future?

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http://www.europhysicsnews.com/full/06/article6/article6.html

Many of the professionals working in the hospitals are

now convinced that photon IMRT will become soon established enough to make

proton therapy unnecessary. IMRT is certainly an improvement for radiation

therapy and a big challenge for all centers investigating the potential of

proton therapy in the world. The fact that the majority of the medical

physicists working in the hospitals are very excited about IMRT and not so much

about proton therapy, is due to the fact that they consider proton therapy out of

their personal reach. The question for the people working in proton therapy is:

can proton therapy take up the gauntlet and do better than IMRT?

I suggest you read the entire article.