Diagnosis of cancer is usually a life‑changing experience for patients and their loved ones. As they seek treatment for their disease, cancer patients need to know that they are receiving safe and appropriate care. When the cancer patient receives radiation treatment at an accredited radiation oncology facility, he can rest assured that his treatment will be done at a facility that has met the ...

The twentieth century witnessed the birth of the medical discipline of Radiation Oncology, beginning with the discovery and clinical application of radium in the early 1900s. Subsequently, clinical radiation oncology evolved as a major modality for the treatment of most solid cancers with the initial use of orthovoltage x-rays, to the use of supervoltage photons and electrons and, most recently...

PURPOSE Radiation oncology curriculum development is challenging because of limited numbers of trainees at any single institution. The goal of this project is to implement and evaluate a standardized medical student clerkship curriculum following the multi-institutional cooperative group research model. METHODS During the 2013 academic year, a standardized curriculum was implemented at 11 aca...

Radiation oncology practice is a collaborative effort that involves multiple clinical and technical specialists including physicians, medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiation therapy technologists, and nurses. The safe and efficient delivery of radiation therapy was never a simple matter and is now exceedingly complex. The growing complexity of radiation oncology procedures has been identifi...

PURPOSE The initial Abt Study of Medical Physicist Work Values for Radiation Oncology Physics Services was published in October 1995. That study measured qualified medical physicist (QMP) work associated only with routine radiation oncology procedures. In the intervening years, medical physics practice has changed dramatically. Three-dimensional treatment planning, once considered a special pro...

© The Canadian Journal of UrologyTM; 20(5); October 2013 Address correspondence to Dr. Timothy N. Showalter, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1215 Lee Street, Box 800383, Charlottesville, VA 22908 USA The path to quality prostate seed implants Xinglei Shen, MD,1 Timothy N. Showalter, MD2 1Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Cancer M...

S. Williams1, I.D. Davis2, C. Sweeney3, M.R. Stockler4, A. Martin4, A.P. Long4, S. Yip4, X. Coskinas4, P. Nguyen5 Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of...

Radiotherapy has been an integral treatment modality for cancer. The field arose from and progressed through innovations in physics, engineering, and biology. The evolution of radiation oncology will rely on the continued adoption of advances from other fields. A new area of science that possesses the ability to impact radiation oncology is nanomedicine. Materials on the nanoscale provide many ...