In medicine, proton therapy, also called proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often to treat cancer. Its chief advantage over other types of external beam radiotherapy is that the dose of protons is deposited over a narrow range of depth, resulting in minimal entry, exit or scattered radiation dose to healthy nearby tissue.
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Who first proposed proton therapy as a cancer treatment?
Physicist Robert R. Wilson first proposed proton therapy in a paper published in 1946.
Physicist Robert R. Wilson made the first suggestion that energetic protons could be used as an effective treatment, in a paper he published in 1946. Proton beam radiotherapy for cancer grew out of that early proposal.
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The first suggestion that energetic protons could be an effective treatment was made by Robert R. Wilson in a paper published in 1946
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In medicine, proton therapy, or proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often to treat cancer.
Treats: Cancer, Lead - treats-condition - 11595
In medicine, proton therapy, or proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often to treat cancer.
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