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2. Radiation oncologist - Wikipedia

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   A radiation oncologist is a specialist physician who uses ionizing radiation (such as megavoltage X-rays or radionuclides) in the treatment of cancer.Radiation oncology is one of the three primary specialties, the other two being surgical and medical oncology, involved in the treatment of cancer.

3. Radiation treatment planning - Wikipedia

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   Doctor reviewing a radiation treatment plan. In radiotherapy, radiation treatment planning (RTP) is the process in which a team consisting of radiation oncologists, radiation therapist, medical physicists and medical dosimetrists plan the appropriate external beam radiotherapy or internal brachytherapy treatment technique for a patient with cancer.

4. Radiation therapist - Wikipedia

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   A radiation therapist, therapeutic radiographer or radiotherapist is an allied health professional who works in the field of radiation oncology.Radiation therapists plan and administer radiation treatments to cancer patients in most Western countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, most European countries, and Canada, where the minimum education requirement is often a baccalaureate ...

5. Intraoperative radiation therapy - Wikipedia

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   The radiation which is produced by low-energy mobile radiation systems has a limited range. For this reason, conventional walls are regarded sufficient to stop the radiation scatter produced in the operating room and no extra measures for radiation protection are necessary. This makes IORT accessible for more hospitals.

6. Radiation therapy - Wikipedia

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   Radiation therapy (RT) is in itself painless, but has iatrogenic side effect risks. Many low-dose palliative treatments (for example, radiation therapy to bony metastases) cause minimal or no side effects, although short-term pain flare-up can be experienced in the days following treatment due to oedema compressing nerves in the treated area ...

7. iCAD Expands Global Distribution of the Xoft Electronic ... - AOL

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   NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- iCAD, Inc. (NAS: ICAD) , a leading provider of advanced imaging and radiation therapy technologies for the detection and treatment of cancer, today announced that ...

8. Cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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   Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. [1] Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including small-molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies, [2] and PARP inhibitors such as olaparib. [3]

9. Medical radiation scientist - Wikipedia

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   Graduates from the medical radiation sciences possess a good understanding of nuclear physics, quantum physics, radiation physics, wave physics, medical terminologies, pathology, oncology, radiobiology, mathematics, anatomy and physiology, and are highly skilled in the operation of complex electronic equipments, computers, and precision ...