Proton Therapy

Conditions Treated

Proton therapy can be used to treat about 80 percent to 85 percent of children whose cancers require radiation therapy for treatment. These include:

Brain and Central Nervous System

• Astrocytoma
• Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRT)
• Craniopharyngioma
• Ependymoma
• Intracranial germ cell tumors (germinoma)
• Low-grade glioma
• Medulloblastoma
• Meningioma
• Optic nerve tumors
• Optic pathway / hypothalamic glioma
• Primitive neuro-ectodermal tumor (intracranial PNET)
• Retinoblastoma

Solid Tumors

• Chondrosarcoma
• Chordoma
• Ewing sarcoma
• Neuroblastoma
• Rhabdomyosarcoma 
• Non-rhabdo soft tissue sarcomas, including angiosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, epithelioid sarcoma and desmoplastic small round cell tumor 
• Tumors of the head and neck
• Wilms tumor

Lymphoma

• Hodgkin's
• Non-Hodgkin’s