Costs and benefits of particle-beam therapies

The most reliable way to determine the efficacy of one treatment modality compared with another is the prospective randomized controlled trial in which patients with the same and similarly staged disease and the same performance status are randomly assigned to receive either the experimental or refe...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physics today 2015-10, Vol.68 (10), p.8-8
Hauptverfasser: Schulz, Robert J., Kagan, A. Robert
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The most reliable way to determine the efficacy of one treatment modality compared with another is the prospective randomized controlled trial in which patients with the same and similarly staged disease and the same performance status are randomly assigned to receive either the experimental or reference treatment. Here, Schulz and Kagan talk about cancer therapy.
ISSN:0031-9228
1945-0699
DOI:10.1063/PT.3.2926