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Ion beam therapy (IBT) has the promise to improve outcome in cancer patients. IBT facilities are more expensive to build and maintain as compared to conventional radiotherapy facilities. There have been relatively few economic analyses comparing IBT to conventional radiotherapy. Some have argued for randomized clinical trial data prior to adopting IBT as standard of care because of the greater incremental cost without similar improvement in outcome.
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Konski, A. (2012). Socio-Economic Aspects of Ion Beam Therapy. In: Linz, U. (eds) Ion Beam Therapy. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, vol 320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21414-1_3
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