Particle therapy

Particle therapy (also known as hadronic therapy) is the generic term used for any type of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) employing high-energy particles. Currently proton therapy accounts for most of this type of EBRT. Although strictly a form of particle therapy, electron therapy is usually counted as a separate modality.

Types of particle therapy include:

• proton therapy
• neutron therapy
• heavy charged particle therapy (e.g. carbon ions)
• pion therapy