Impact of intensity-modulated proton therapy in reducing radiation-induced lymphopenia in glioma patients.
Anindita DasJacinthlyn SylviaGanapathy KrishnanPankaj Kumar PandaPreethi SubramanyamRoopesh KumarRajendran AdhithyanSushama PatilDayananda SharmaRakesh JalaliPublished in: Neuro-oncology advances (2024)
Proton therapy seems to have a superior sparing of normal brain to moderate dose radiation than photon-based RT and reduces the incidence of lymphopenia. Glioma patients with lymphopenia possibly have worse outcomes than the ones with maintained lymphocyte counts.
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