Patient outcome of pencil beam-scanning proton therapy in Head and Neck adenoid cystic carcinoma

M. Pelak, M. Walser, B. Bachtiary, A. Bolsi, J. Hrbacek, A. Lomax, U. Kliebsch1, A. Pica, D.C. Weber

“Proton beam therapy using PBS is an effective and safe way of delivering definitive and adjuvant irradiation in patients with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (ACC) of the head and neck region. Most ACC patients that progressed after treatment failed distantly.”