Particle Radiotherapy Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer
The results of decades of research and development are providing compelling evidence about the efficacy of radiation therapy with proton and carbon ion beams to achieve superior complication free tumor control leading to a world-wide rapid growth in their
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Particle Radiotherapy Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer
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Particle Radiotherapy
Arabinda Kumar Rath • Narayan Sahoo Editors
Particle Radiotherapy Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer
Editors Arabinda Kumar Rath Hemalata Hospitals and Research Center Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Narayan Sahoo Department of Radiation Physics University of TexasMD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX, USA
ISBN 978-81-322-2621-5 ISBN 978-81-322-2622-2 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2622-2
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Foreword
When Dr. A. K. Rath asked me to write the foreword for this book, Particle Radiotherapy: Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer, I was surprised because it has been nearly 20 years since I took voluntary retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory to devote my time fully to provide appropriate radiation treatment for cancer with a hope that it could serve as a model for rural India. Earlier, for more than three decades, I devoted my work in the emerging field of particle radiotherapy during 1961–1995. Dr. Rath assured me that the observations made by me in my review papers nearly 20 years ago are still valid today and they need to be in the foreword of this book. My first interaction with Dr. Rath was nearly 10 years ago when he invited me to make a presentation during AMPICON 2006 held in Bhubaneswar where I spoke on ‘Our Spiritual and Professional Heritage: Opportunity and Challenge for Medical Physicists of India in the New Millennium’. I had expressed my hope that the emerging technologies would meet the challenges in this New Millennium. I understand that this book is intended primarily for those engaged in the application of radiation in the treatment of cancer. The leading article
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