BACKGROUND: We performed a survey using the modified EORTC Facility questionnaire (pFQ) to evaluate the human, technical and organizational resources of particle centers in Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The modified pFQ consisted of 235 questions distributed in 11 sections accessible on line on an EORTC server. Fifteen centers from 8 countries completed the pFQ between May 2015 and December 2015. RESULTS: The average number of patients treated per year and per particle center was 221 (range, 40-557). The majority (66.7%) of centers had pencil beam or raster scanning capability. Four (27%) centers were dedicated to eye treatment only. An increase in the patients-health professional FTE ratio was observed for eye tumor only centers when compared to other centers. All centers treated routinely chordomas/chondrosarcomas, brain tumors and sarcomas but rarely breast cancer. The majority of centers treated pediatric cases with particles. Only a minority of the queried institutions treated non-static targets. CONCLUSIONS: As the number of particle centers coming online will increase, the experience with this treatment modality will rise in Europe. Children can currently be treated in these facilities in a majority of cases. The majority of these centers provide state of the art particle beam therapy.
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- chondrosarkom radioterapie MeSH
- chordom radioterapie MeSH
- dítě MeSH
- elementární částice terapeutické užití MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- nádory kostí farmakoterapie MeSH
- nádory mozku radioterapie MeSH
- nádory oka radioterapie MeSH
- protonová terapie přístrojové vybavení metody statistika a číselné údaje MeSH
- protony terapeutické užití MeSH
- průzkumy a dotazníky MeSH
- radioterapie těžkými ionty přístrojové vybavení metody statistika a číselné údaje MeSH
- uhlík chemie terapeutické užití MeSH
- Check Tag
- dítě MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Evropa MeSH