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Bone and soft tissue tumors frequently recur locally when treated with surgery alone. Therefore, in an effort to improve treatment outcome, combined surgery and radiotherapy has been advocated as an effective modality. However, with conventional radiation, these tumors can usually be given only a moderate dose of radiation with the result that most recur locally. In this regard, proton beam radiotherapy offers potential advantages with respect to dose distribution characterized by Bragg-peak formation, which allows precise delivery of high radiation doses to a tumor while avoiding irradiation to adjacent normal tissues [1, 2].
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Tsujii, H., Tsuji, H. (1992). Future Directions of Proton Beam Radiotherapy for Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors. In: Uchida, A., Ono, K. (eds) Recent Advances in Musculoskeletal Oncology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68364-3_14
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