Abstract
Proton Beam Radiotherapy is an emerging new technology in radiation oncology. The current debate underlines the lack of adequate number of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to prove its clinical priority. This paper sums up the present state-of-art and disputes with the need of using RCTs in the assessment of protontherapy.
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