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Hope or hype: can upright treatment increase access to advanced radiotherapy?

15 May 2024 Tami Freeman

Speakers at the ESTRO 2024 meeting discussed the potential for upright treatment to increase global access to radiotherapy, particularly particle therapy

Upright proton therapy
Upright proton therapy The cranial positioning chair used for upright treatments at the Northwestern Medicine Proton Center in Chicago. (Courtesy: Northwestern Medicine Proton Center)
Upright radiotherapy, in which a patient is treated in an upright position rather than lying down (s

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