Comprehensive insights on the underlying potential and advantage of proton therapy over intensity-modulated photon radiation therapy as highlighted in a wide real world data analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Radiation Oncology Unit, Clinical Department, CNAO National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy, 27100 Pavia, Italy; Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic, and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. Electronic address: ester.orlandi@cnao.it.
• ² Radiation Oncology Unit, Clinical Department, CNAO National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
• ³ Scientific Directorate, CNAO National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy, 27100 Pavia, Italy; Department of Head & Neck Medical Oncology 3, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, 20133 Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology & Haemato-Oncology, University of Milan, 20122 Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ CNAO National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy, Scientific Direction Office, Pavia, Italy.
• ⁵ Danish Center for Particle Therapy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
• ⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.