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Radiotherapy & Oncology is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of radiation oncology. Commonly referred to as "The Green Journal", it is published by Elsevier on behalf of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology. [1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 4.9. [2]
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.
Radiation therapy is used mainly in the treatment of cancer. Radiation therapy can be used to cure, care or shrink tumors that are interfering with quality of life. Sometimes radiation therapy is used alone; other times it is used in conjunction with chemotherapy and surgery.
RILP is a rare side effect of external beam radiation therapy [1] [2] [3] and both interstitial and intracavity brachytherapy radiation implants. [4] [5] RILP is a Pelvic Radiation Disease symptom. [6] In general terms, such nerve damage may present in stages, earlier as demyelination and later as complications of chronic radiation fibrosis.
A radiation therapy machine was involved in six accidents, in which patients were exposed to massive overdoses of radiation. 4 fatalities, 2 injuries. [86] August 1985: Soviet submarine K-431 accident. Ten fatalities and 49 other people suffered radiation injuries. [11]
In males, the use of radiotherapy can disrupt the endocrine system leading to altered spermatogenesis and consequently a decrease in sperm count, sperm motility, sperm morphology and sperm viability. [2] The rapid evolution of radiotherapy technologies has had the benefit of more effective and accurate treatments with less side effects. [3]
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer therapy to either kill or control the growth of malignant cells. It is normally delivered by a linear particle accelerator .
The research involved comparing conventional radiotherapy performed on mice to FLASH radiotherapy administered using a linear electron accelerator able to generate 4.5 MeV electrons with a high beam current, such that a high dose could be administered by a single beam in less than 500ms.