Ethical reflections on proton radiotherapy
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Radiation oncology is a medical discipline mainly involved in the treatment of cancer with ionizing radiation. It is based on full knowledge of individual patient cancer disease, delineation of the target volume including tumor that has to receive therapeutic radiation dose, delineation of normal tissues to be spared, treatment planning with dedicated calculation algorithms, radiation delivery to patient with radiation emitting machines as a linear accelerator, patient follow up for tumor response and toxicity evaluation (Clifford Chao, Mohan, Marinetti, & Dong, 2013; Purdy, 2013).
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