background: the impact of treatment on cancer patients’ quality of life (qol) has been the focus of a variety of longitudinal studies in english literature for past decade. the measurement of patient-reported outcomes which includes health-related quality of life is a new important initiative which has emerged and grown over the past three decades. following the development of reliable and vali...

purpose: nowadays cancer patients want more detailed information and greater participation in decisions about their care. as a consequence, the demands on health care system to satisfy the complex care needs of oncology patients have increased tremendously. methods and materials: as part of a quality improvement exercise at the radiation oncology department, allan blair cancer center, regina, s...

60-year-old woman was treated for a brain metastasis. the patient received intensity-modulated radiation therapy (sib-imrt) dose of 30 gy for the whole brain and 40 gy delivered simultaneously to individual brain metastases in 10 fractions. the present report investigated the influence of applied novel prepared treatment plan, among others the fractionation protocol on the electroencephalogram ...

*Department of Radiation Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York; yDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; zDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; xSection of Radiation Oncology, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire; {CyberKnife ...

1Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; 2Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 3Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia; 4Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, Colorado; 5Department of Radi...

*Department of Radiation Oncology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York; yDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, South Birmingham, Alabama; zDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; xDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; kDepartment of Radi...

Radiotherapy continues to be a major treatment for solid tumours and is a cornerstone of modern oncology. The term 'radiation oncology' describes the integration of radiation therapy into the complexity of multi-modal therapy. Over the last ten years the crucial role of radiation therapy as part of multi-modality protocols in cancer care has been documented in numerous Phase III trials. Advance...

*Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia, Virginia, USA, Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA, Department of Radiation Oncology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA, Radiation Physics Laboratory, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia C...

*Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; yDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; zMD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; xDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; jjDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;...