Citation: Petereit DG and Coleman CN (2015) Editorial: " Global Challenges in Radiation Oncology " .

In order to assess its progress, and to obtain a snapshot of the current situation, the Indonesian Radiation Oncology Society has routinely conducted annual surveys since 2004 to assess the current condition of resources for equipment and staffing in all radiation oncology centres in the country. Based on these routine surveys, the society has made recommendations to the government about provid...

Safety concerns may arise from a lack of standardization and ambiguity during the treatment planning and delivery process in radiation therapy. A standardized target and organ-at-risk naming convention in radiation therapy was developed by a task force comprised of several Radiation Oncology Societies. We present a nested-survey approach in a community setting to determine the methodology for r...

A decade ago, the American Board of Radiology established a research pathway for residency training designed for individuals to simultaneously train in diagnostic radiology or radiation oncology and in basic science, clinical, or transitional investigation. This new pathway was called the ABR Holman Research Pathway, named for B. Leonard Holman, M.D., who first proposed this initiative to foste...

1 Manager, Clinical Physics, London Regional Cancer Centre and Professor, Oncology, Medical Biophysics, Physics and Astronomy, Diagnostic Imaging, University of Western Ontario 2 Senior Physicist and Tomotherapy Project Coordinator, London Regional Cancer Centre and Associate Professor, Oncology, Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario 3 Medical Director, Radiation Treatment Program, ...

J. Vansteenkiste1, D. De Ruysscher2, W. E. E. Eberhardt3, E. Lim4, S. Senan5, E. Felip6 & S. Peters7, on behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Respiratory Oncology (Pulmonology), University Hospitals Leuven/KU Leuven, Leuven; Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven/KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Medical Oncology, West German Cancer Centre, University Hospital, Universi...