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...

Modern biology depends on a wide range of software interacting with a large number of data sources, varying both in size, complexity and structure. The range of important databases in molecular biology and genetics makes it crucial to overcome the problems which this multiplicity presents. At EMBL-EBI we have started to use CORBA technology to support interoperability between a variety of datab...

Stereotactic radiation approaches are gaining more popularity for the treatment of intracranial as well as extracranial tumors in organs such as the liver and lung. Technology, rather than biology, is driving the rapid adoption of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), also known as stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), in the clinic due to advances in precise positioning and targetin...

Background For radiological protection and control, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) provides nominal risk coefficients related to radiation exposure, which can be extrapolated using excess relative absolute obtained from Life Span Study of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Nagasaki with dose dose-rate effectiveness factor (DDREF). Materials Methods Since it is im...