ES05.03 Radiation Oncology: Value and Innovation

Innovation through Advances in Radiation Oncology

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2015.11.003 2452-1094/Copyright 2016 the Author. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ ASTRO has launched its first entirely open access journal, Advances in Radiation Oncology. Advances is a natural complement to ASTRO’s established peer-reviewed journals: the International Journal of Ra...

Technology for Innovation in Radiation Oncology.

Radiation therapy is an effective, personalized cancer treatment that has benefited from technological advances associated with the growing ability to identify and target tumors with accuracy and precision. Given that these advances have played a central role in the success of radiation therapy as a major component of comprehensive cancer care, the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO...

Hazards and risks in oncology: radiation oncology

Adverse effects and hazards which have their origin from radiation using conventional techniques like 3-D conformal radiotherapy and total radiation doses are well known. However little is known about the sprectum of especially late toxicity after radiation using new technologies like intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) combined with novel target volume and dose concepts. Since IMRT allows ...

Radiation Oncology

Objective: Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is an exciting new technique with the potential to improve radiotherapy treatment by reducing dose to normal structures and increasing dose to the cancer. The objective was to investigate the potential value of IMRT in the treatment of sarcoma. To compare normal tissue sparing and treatment volume coverage for both three dimensional conformal (...

Advanced APMs and the emerging role of immuno-oncology agents: balancing innovation and value.