PTC CLINIC
Information for Healthcare Professionals

The main advantage of proton therapy is in the appreciably better radiation distribution, owing to which improved treatment results can be achieved while reducing toxicity of the therapy. The improved dose distribution patterns provide the opportunity to apply higher doses without inducing more severe side effects.

Proton therapy applied by following the PTC protocol offers:

1. Improved treatment results owing to the increased radiation doses applied without increasing the toxicity of the treatment.
2. Fewer or less severe long-term adverse effects that require active treatment.
3. Improved patients’ quality of life owing to the less severe and shorter adverse effects and a higher chance for preservation of the quality of life.

Figure 1: Example of an irradiation plan and dose distribution to individual organs. It is clear that a significantly lower dose is applied to healthy brain tissue during proton radiotherapy.

Table 1: Doses to the various structures/organs.