Kasey had proton therapy for a fast-growing sinus tumor. Today, she shows no signs of the cancer. Read more.
Proton therapy can be used to treat the following tumors in children and young adults:
Brain and central nervous system
- Atypical teratoid/Rhabdoid tumors
- Craniopharyngioma
- Ependymoma
- Intracranial germ cell tumors (germinoma)
- Low-grade glioma
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningioma
- Optic nerve tumors
- Pineoblastoma
- Optic pathway/hypothalamic glioma, oligodendroglioma, oligoastrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma
- Primitive neuro-ectodermal tumor (intracranial PNET)
- Spinal cord tumors
Solid tumors
- Chondrosarcoma
- Chordoma
- Desmoid tumor
- Ewing’s sarcoma/Primitive neuro-ectodermal tumor (PNET)
- Histiocytosis X
- Juvenile angiofibromas
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Neurofibroma
- Osteosarcoma
- Retinoblastoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma (and other soft tissue sarcomas)
- Soft tissue sarcoma
- Tumors of the head and neck
- Wilms tumor
Lymphoma
- Hodgkin
- Non-Hodgkin
Recurrent Cancer