BACKGROUND/AIM Radiation oncology covers many different fields of knowledge and skills. Indeed, this medical specialty links physics, biology, research, and formation as well as surgical and clinical procedures and even rehabilitation and aesthetics. The current socio-economic situation and professional competences affect the development and future or this specialty. The aim of this article was...

Purpose: The Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service (ACDS) has been auditing and New Zealand radiotherapy providers for nearly 10 years building the National Dataset of audit measurements. audits have uncovered numerous issues with varying significance. This paper will present an update ACDS including trends within recent findings then cover more advanced modalities such as SRS, SBRT, VMAT adapt...

a Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California b Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California c University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio d Department of Radiation Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California e Department of Radiation Oncology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of South...

1 Departments of Radiation Oncology and Neurological Surgery, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 3 Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Jefferson Medical College, Thoma...

1Vijay Palwe, 2Kaustav Talpatra, 3Umesh Mahantshetty, 4Seethalaxmi Viswanathan 1Senior Registrar, Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2Consultant, Department of Radiation Oncology, KD Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Center, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 3Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maha...

Departments of *Radiation Oncology, yOtolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and zPathology, University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA; xDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; kDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and {Department of Otolaryn...

Mathieu Hatt, Dimitris Visvikis. Defining radiotherapy target volumes using 18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography: still a Pandora’s box?: in regard to Devic et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010).. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics / International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics; International Journal of Radiation O...

Fourth year medical students (MS4s) participate in clerkships to familiarize themselves with the field of radiation oncology and to evaluate and audition for residency programs. However, MS4s’ perceptions of their radiation oncology clerkship experiences have never been formally evaluated. This study aims to characterize the MS4 perception of the radiation oncology clerkship experience from the...

Department of Radiotherapy, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Medical Radiation Research for Radiation Oncology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; Department of Experimental Clinical Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark; Radiation Physics Department, Cottingham; Department of Com...

1 Medical Physics and Informatics Laboratory, Department of Electronics Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan 2Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute for Advanced Radiation Oncology, Monmouth Medical Center, Barnabas Health, Long Branch, NJ 07740, USA 3Department of Radiation Oncology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung Univer...