In the billion dollar market for radiotherapy products, pencil beam proton therapy is emerging as a promising technology that could potentially revolutionize cancer care. The technology is very expensive, and it remains to be seen how many medical institutions in the US and worldwide will be interested in adopting the large systems, which require years to construct. But despite that, pencil beam proton therapy represents a relatively new option for treating cancerous tumors that could bring about a paradigm shift in the market with particularly high hopes for use in pediatrics.
Theoretically, pencil beam proton therapy should be superior to any other form of radiotherapy. Physicians who have used pencil beam proton therapy, such as radiation oncologist Carl Rossi, MD, of...
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