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Three ways to make proton therapy affordable

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Shrink accelerators, sharpen beams and broaden health-care coverage so more people can get this type of radiation treatment, argue Thomas R. Bortfeld and Jay S. Loeffler.

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  1. the Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Thomas R. Bortfeld

  2. the Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jay S. Loeffler

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Bortfeld, T., Loeffler, J. Three ways to make proton therapy affordable. Nature 549, 451–453 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/549451a

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