John

Look to the middle right side of your screen to see the Search box on this forum. Type in "Proton Therapy" (be sure to use the quotation marks). All the prior posts here on proton therapy pop up. It looks like the majority were all in 2008 when proton therapy was not standard for head and neck cancer.
I did a Google search also that shows some enthusiastic web sites for proton therapy indicating it was far superior to IMRT however one site listed pros and cons and I was biased in its favor since it actually overemphasizes eating difficulties in restaurants
[quote]Many of these patients are unable to eat in a restaurant since they may require their food to be pureed or specially prepared for them to be able to eat. It is these sorts of poor quality of life outcomes that are very inadequately measured in current cancer statistics where the only measure of outcome is survival. Patients may be alive, but at considerable personal cost. This complication, xerostomia, is the sort of complication that significant with standard X-ray and IMRT treatment. [/quote] Makes me feel less unlucky. Proton therapy for H&N cancer
Welcome.
charm