[New opportunities for proton therapy in Russia]

On November 23, 2015 in Protvino of the Moscow Region there was begun proton therapy using Russia's first medical therapeutic complex "Prometheus" produced by JSC "PRO- TOM" and certified to treat patients with head and neck tumors. The complex allows irradiating patients with active scanning beam. Energy of beam is 30-250MeV and maximum field size is 10 cm vertically and 40 cm horizontally. The manufacturer declared parameters were confirmed during preclinical stud- ies. By April 8, 2016 the successful proton therapy received 20 patients with complex "targets" mostly located, from the point of view of radiation tolerance, near the critical structures.