Radiation has an essential role in breast cancer, complementing surgery to prevent recurrences and improve survival. To determine when radiation...
Category - Radiation Oncology
When I visited Washington D.C. earlier this week, the buzz among my colleagues was about how the Cancer Moonshot project didn’t include any radiation...
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ― Isaac Asimov Some...
There are no clinical trials comparing Gamma Knife vs. LINAC-based radiosurgery (SRS). In RTOG 9508, patients who were randomized to the SRS boost...
For a few years now, I have wanted Radiation Nation to grow. It’s been wonderfully engaging online, but I’ve been looking for people with...
In the last post, we shared a multilingual, global resource for patient education. This page may help radiation oncologists guide patients to useful...
Cuando ves a un nuevo paciente, o es usted uno, es difícil communiquer entenderlo y todo en el tiempo limitado que tiene. Folletos de papel no...
When you see a new patient, or you are one, it’s hard to communicate everything and understand it in the limited time you have. Paper...
For those of us venturing online, it can seem vast and lonely. For radiation oncology, it’s hard also to know where to start without getting...
Pelvic radiation can cause significant diarrhea, cramping and other side effects due to injury to the gastrointestinal mucosa, or lining of the gut. ...