The Basics of Proton Therapy

The Medical Physics department at Provision provides an in depth explanation about what Proton Therapy is and how it treats cancer.
0:00 Introduction
0:33 Outline
1:17 The Physics of Protons
2:57 A Protons Journey
3:55 Accelerating Protons
5:27 How a Cyclotron Works
7:24 Early Cyclotrons
9:32 Cyclotrons are Commercially Available
11:17 Beyond the Physics
13:45 How does Radiation Kill cells ?
16:58 Why do we Fractionate the treatments ?
19:37 So How do we use Protons ?
24:23 PENCIL BEAM SCANNING - PBS
26:50 Advantage of Pencil Beam scanning
28:17 Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy Best form of IMRT
31:55 Pelvic Lymph Node Treatment High Risk Prostate cancer
32:46 Pencil Beam Scanning - H&N
34:11 Coronary Exposure to Radiation in Conventional
34:57 Breast Cancer - Protons vs. Conventional Radiotherapy
36:20 Pencil Beam Scanning - Breast
39:15 Medium Intact Breast
40:09 Message of Hope

[@hugorojas1452]

THANK YOU ALL AT PROVISION CARES and Chief Medical Physicist, Niek Schreuder!!

[@drgergens]

Great, thank you, Chief Medical Physicist, Niek Schreuder, very much!!!!! Great illustrations and perspectives delivered to your audience. Much appreciative. I finally took a time-out to learn more the advantages and physics behind proton therapy and unit of dose. Thanks again. I am going hold my students responsible in learning from your presentation.

[@mcguireluva4life]

Thank you so much for uploading this. As a radiotherapy student understanding this new technology is vital but often difficult to understand. This is seriously helping with my revision so thank you

[@Voigt_Analytics]

Thank you very much! I love the closing words within Arthur Schopenhauer 😅

[@dndpringle]

This is great information. Thanks, for uploading this.

[@alexm7765]

Great lecture, thanks a lot!

[@pankajbajaj9578]

Magnetic protonotropy by applying magnetic feild to the helium atom with low radiology ions that are carring low charge that do not harm the surrounding cells and are much faster to destroy the cancer cells at augmented speeds

[@pankajbajaj9578]

Speed of the ion destroy the cancer cell multiplication process

[@kgk49]

As an acoustic neuroma (AN) patient, I have been learning about different radiotherapy options. There are few proton therapy champions, and Mr. Schreuder is the closest I've seen to one for that modality. Excellent knowledge. Just need to determine if it is the best radiation choice for an AN, and where is the most experienced and best proton therapy facility for AN? Any help?

[@alexm7765]

Hey, how did it go?

[@carlettagoodrichmann1513]

Nuclear Physics MEdical didactics advance nuclear medicine use of proton therapy and nanotechnology are effective measures for eradicating tumors and some cancers THE synergy of medicines integrated stem cell therapy will lead to regeneration of healthy infrastructures of stem cells