Abstract:Background
Ion beam therapy allows for substantial sparing of normal tissues. Besides deterministic normal‐tissue complications, stochastic long‐term effects like secondary cancer (SC) induction are of importance when comparing different treatment modalities.
Purpose
To develop a modeling approach for comparison of SC risk in proton and carbon ion therapy.
Methods and Materials
The local effect model (LEM) is used to predict the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of SC induction after particle therapy. A … Show more
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