Hi Ozzymotto!
Some of the three different types of radiation are photons, neutrons, and protons. IMRT and SBRT are photon radiation, as are other types. I’ve had that, IMRT, IORT, and Proton radiation, which protons aren’t at every hospital like IMRT, maybe about 28 locations in the U.S., and this treatment may not be approved by all insurances from a recent report from one patient. In my time, it was for recurrences, and clinical trials at MD Anderson in certain cancers.
Another, it sometines can take twice as long with protons with precise setting up, and only for a few locations, unlike IMRT doing 17 sites in 15 minutes, in my case, but otherwise it’s silent, and such radiation itself with protons may take a minute or two to complete when I had 4 sites. When they do need to change opposite sides or areas, they may need to change the brass fittings, I believe called, collometers, so that increases the time you’re bolted down with a mask on. Otherwise, it seened to work in my case with other treatments since!
A newer type of proton therapy is IMPT, which works continuous like IMRT, so there is no need to change the brass fittings to direct the radiation, but there are only about 11 of these locations in the U.S.
Here is a link to a medical site speaking about the different types of radiation:
https://www.oncolink.org/cancer-tre...ation-therapy-which-type-is-right-for-meI hope this helps, and good luck!
