Radiation oncology is a highly complex medical specialty, involving many varied routine and special procedures. To assure cost-effectiveness and maintain support for the medical physics program, managers are obligated to analyze and defend all aspects of an institutional billing and cost-reporting program. Present standards of practice require that each patient's radiation treatments be customi...

We read with interest the recently published paper by Dr. Ogawa "Paradigm Shift in Radiation Biology/Radiation Oncology-Exploitation of the H2O2 Effect" for Radiotherapy Using Low-LET (Linear Energy Transfer) Radiation such as X-rays and High-Energy Electrons".[...].

PURPOSE Corporate scientific activity lies at the heart of the modern academic institution, and yet field-specific estimates of institutional or departmental scholarly productivity are difficult to assess. The authors sought to estimate long-term and current departmental research efforts at residency-sponsoring US radiation oncology departments, using modifications of established bibliometric i...

BACKGROUND Peer review, especially prospective peer review, has been supported by professional organizations as an important element in optimal Radiation Oncology practice based on its demonstration of efficacy at detecting and preventing errors prior to patient treatment. Implementation of peer review is not without barriers, but solutions do exist to mitigate or eliminate some of those barrie...

This case report describes a long follow-up of a patient treated for lung cancer by local therapy only using surgery and multiple radiation applications. Categories: Radiation Oncology

Radiology and radiation oncology accidents involving radiation overexposure have caused increased scrutiny by the media, lawyers, our patients, and most recently the US Food and Drug Administration. We should add a new pillar for the ACR called "patient-focused radiology." We have reached new heights of quality in imaging, but at the same time, we have dramatically increased the radiation dose ...

Small-cell lung cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up M. Sørensen, M. Pijls-Johannesma & E. Felip On behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Department of Oncology, The Finsen Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Radiation Oncology, MAASTRO Clinic, GROW Research Institute, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Me...