Proton Therapy treatment planning in practice | Christine Chung

Talk by Christine Chung at the online course "Proton Therapy: the Challenges and the Opportunities"
This online course explored Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) treatment planning. Invited speakers from leading institutions in cancer research worldwide brought state-of-the-art information to clinical professionals and researchers, so that the results of current and ongoing research and development are disseminated widely and can have an impact on clinical practice.

[@grahamgibson4669]

Christine, Great talk, thank you. I am going through proton therapy right now and you were asked a question on what you would like to improve the process. My experience is that the cone CT scans to align body and target is pretty vague from what I can see. Would a full CT scan, maybe with contrast help you to make sure that the target is being addressed correctly or do you think a cone CT scan is adequate. I do worry about alignment of the body on the table especially as the resolution is about 5 mm and only three "tattoos" for alignment.

[@AlGhifari7]

Nice talk Christine

[@glong2720]

This type of treatment is just for the wealthy people i.e. if you can afford ort have specific insurrance that goes along with facilities like MAYO CLINIC. Mayo pisks and chooses who they will treat $$$$$$$$. While the public pays billions on the research and equipment used by MAYO.