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ArticleJournal of medical radiation sciences2025

Response to Letter to the Editor Regarding 'Is Proton Beam Therapy Always Better Than Photon Irradiation? Lessons From Two Cases'.

Michelle P Li, Adam Yeo, Kirsty Wiltshire, Claire Phillips, Joseph Sia, Greg Wheeler, Lisa Hall

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Article in Journal of medical radiation sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Michelle P LiPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0314-1090
Adam YeoPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9725-0668
Kirsty WiltshirePeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Claire PhillipsPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Joseph SiaPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Greg WheelerPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Lisa HallPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This correspondence is in response to the Letter to the Editor "Evaluating Proton Versus Photon Therapy: A Call for Nuanced Decision-Making". A balanced evidence-based approach that is patient-centred is needed when deciding between proton versus photon radiotherapy.

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PhotonsProton TherapyHumans

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PMID40143597
PMCPMC12159240

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