Is proton therapy ever combined with other forms of radiation therapy or chemotherapy?
Proton therapy is often used in conjugation with X-ray therapy and conformal therapy to boost the dose to sites of gross disease and allow irradiation of a large volume of tissue to doses large enough to sterilize microscopic cancer. Depending on the amount of cancer within a particular lymph node and the type of cancer that is present, a patient may be at risk for harboring microscopic nests of cancer cells within the nodes or surrounding tissue.
