Proton therapy of a pregnant patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: Joosje H. Heimovaara from the DepartmentAmsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands have published the article: Proton therapy of a pregnant patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of May/28,/2009
• future: Future research should improve the accuracy of the fetal neutron dose estimation during proton therapy leading to practical guidelines and standardization on development and growth of the boy.

SUMMARY

Cancer complicates about 1 in 1000 to 2000 pregnancies. Although guidelines indicate that this is safe when the fetal dose is kept below 100 mSv, radiation oncologists . . .

 



If you want to have access to all the content you need to log in!

Thanks :)

Username or Email

Password

Remember me

Lost your password?

If you don't have an account, you can create one here.