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SUBMITTER: Kim TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5790519 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Tae Hyun TH Park Joong-Won JW Kim Bo Hyun BH Kim Dae Yong DY Moon Sung Ho SH Kim Sang Soo SS Lee Ju Hee JH Woo Sang Myung SM Koh Young-Hwan YH Lee Woo Jin WJ Kim Chang-Min CM
Oncotarget 20171219 3
<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the optimal time of tumour response and effectiveness of hypofractionated proton beam therapy (PBT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).<h4>Results</h4>Overall, treatment was well tolerated with no grade toxicity ≥3. Of 71 patients, 66 patients (93%) eventually reached complete response (CR) after PBT: 93.9% (62 of 66) of patients who reached CR within 12 months, and the remaining 4 patients (6.1%) reached CR at 12.5, 16.2, 19.1 and 21.7 months, respectively. The thr ...[more]