Radiation Therapy Basics
Radiation therapy is primarily utilized to treat this disease, which develops as a multi-step process of malignant transformation.
What is cancer?
A drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.
What is Phase II?
This is based on the cancer staging, personal and institutional experience, and data from clinical trials.
What is the indication for RT ?
This Radiation Oncology professional is the only person who is qualified to sign a written directive for radiation treatment.
Who is a Radiation Oncologist?
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What is the City of Medicine?
Immobilization, imaging, tumor localization, treatment planning, patient positioning, treatment, and quality assurance are all part of this.
What is the treatment chain?
Researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
What is Phase I?
This is the amount of radiation to be delivered, along with how many fractions that are to be delivered, as prescribed by the Radiation Oncologist.
What is the planned treatment dose?
This Radiation Oncology professional is primarily in charge of preparing treatment plans in the treatment planning system.
Who is a dosimetrist?
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What is the Duke Lemur center?
In this case, radiation therapy is given either pre-operatively, post-operatively, or concomitantly, as opposed to being the solo therapy.
What is adjunct therapy?
Studies are done after the drug or treatment has been marketed to gather information on the drug's effect in various populations and any side effects associated with long-term use
What is Phase IV?
This is delineated by the Radiation Oncologist, with added margins to account for various uncertainties.
What is the planned treatment volume?
This Radiation Oncology professional has responsibility for calibrating and maintaining the quality assurance for clinical linear accelerators.
Who is the medical physicist?
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What is the Museum of Life and Science?
In this type of radiation therapy, the treatment source is placed directly into the planning volume.
What is brachytherapy?
A drug or treatment is given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.
What is Phase III?
This defines the details of the radiation treatment such as the number of beams, their geometry, beam energy, etc.
What is the planned treatment technique?
This Radiation Oncology professional sets the patient up at the linear accelerator for treatment, and is authorized to turn the treatment beam on.
Who is the Radiation Therapist?
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What is the Duke Homestead?
This level of disease is not treated by radiation therapy but must be treated by other means such as immunotherapy or chemotherapy.
What are circulating cancer cells?
This is a national cooperative group for the purpose of conducting radiation therapy research and clinical investigations with funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
What is the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)?
This can be either curative or palliative.
What is the goal (or intent) of radiation therapy?
This Radiation Oncology professional oversees commissioning of new equipment and software such as linear accelerators, treatment applicators, and treatment planning systems.
Who is the medical physicist?
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What is Bennett place?