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Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 2018 This guideline details the European Higher Education Area Levels 7 and 8 Postgraduate benchmarking document for Radiation TherapisTs (RTTs). The purpose of this benchmarking document is to assist higher education institutes in the development of ...
Mary Coffey, Michelle Leech
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Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 2022 Background: Traditionally tattoos are used for patient setup in radiotherapy. However they may pose challenges for the radiotherapists to achieve precise patient alignment, and serve as a permanent visual reminder of the patient’s diagnosis and often ...
Wesley Naidoo, Michelle Leech
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Oxygen-Guided Radiation Therapy [PDF]
International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 2019 It has been known for over 100 years that tumor hypoxia, a near-universal characteristic of solid tumors, decreases the curative effectiveness of radiation therapy. However, to date, there are no reports that demonstrate an improvement in radiation effectiveness in a mammalian tumor on the basis of tumor hypoxia localization and local hypoxia treatment.
Epel, Boris +10 more
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Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2023 Background Glioblastoma is one of the most common and aggressive adult brain tumors. The conventional treatment strategy, surgery combined with chemoradiotherapy, did not change the fact that the recurrence rate was high and the survival rate was low ...
Sijia Li +3 more
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RRx-001, A novel dinitroazetidine radiosensitizer. [PDF]
, 2016 The 'holy grail' in radiation oncology is to improve the outcome of radiation therapy (RT) with a radiosensitizer-a systemic chemical/biochemical agent that additively or synergistically sensitizes tumor cells to radiation in the absence of significant ...
Bednarski, Mark +7 more
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Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma. [PDF]
, 2013 Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma is a surgical complication with significant morbidity to the vision and eye. Few reports in the literature have addressed this complication exclusively.
Chang, Melinda Y, McCannel, Tara A
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Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 2018 Innovations in radiotherapy practice continue to develop and expand. With this comes a requirement for suitably educated Radiation TherapisTs (RTTs) to expand their scope of practice and work at advanced levels within radiotherapy departments. This paper
M. Coffey, M. Leech
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Promoting professional judgement through peer debate in radiation therapy undergraduate curriculum
Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 2022 Radiation therapists (RTs) are often required to exercise professional judgement when faced with the ambiguity inherent in professional dilemmas not comprehensively accommodated by the professional Code of Conduct.
Maeve Kearney +2 more
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Planning for a pandemic: Mitigating risk to radiation therapy service delivery in the COVID‐19 era
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, 2020 The novel coronavirus (COVID‐19) has rapidly impacted all of our lives following its escalation to pandemic status on 11 March 2020. Government guidelines and restrictions implemented to mitigate the risk of COVID‐19 community transmission have forced ...
Nigel Anderson +9 more
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Radiation Therapy Medical Physics Review – Delivery, Interactions, Safety, Feasibility, and Head to Head Comparisons of the Leading Radiation Therapy Techniques [PDF]
, 2017 Radiation therapy uses high energy radiation to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy for cancer treatment can take the form of photon therapy (using x-rays and gamma rays), or charged particle therapy including proton therapy and electron therapy. Within
Collins, Cielle
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