The Basics of Proton Therapy

The Medical Physics department at Provision provides an in depth explanation about what Proton Therapy is and how it treats cancer.

0:00 Introduction
0:33 Outline
1:17 The Physics of Protons
2:57 A Protons Journey
3:55 Accelerating Protons
5:27 How a Cyclotron Works
7:24 Early Cyclotrons
9:32 Cyclotrons are Commercially Available
11:17 Beyond the Physics
13:45 How does Radiation Kill cells ?
16:58 Why do we Fractionate the treatments ?
19:37 So How do we use Protons ?
24:23 PENCIL BEAM SCANNING - PBS
26:50 Advantage of Pencil Beam scanning
28:17 Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy Best form of IMRT
31:55 Pelvic Lymph Node Treatment High Risk Prostate cancer
32:46 Pencil Beam Scanning - H&N
34:11 Coronary Exposure to Radiation in Conventional
34:57 Breast Cancer - Protons vs. Conventional Radiotherapy
36:20 Pencil Beam Scanning - Breast
39:15 Medium Intact Breast
40:09 Message of Hope