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Term | Definition | Rating |
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WROA | Western Radiation Oncology Associates | |
LRO | Leeward Radiation Oncology | |
URO | University Radiation Oncology Associates | |
URO | University Radiation Oncology Associates | |
URO | University Radiation Oncology Associates | |
ESTRO | European Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology | |
LRO | Leeward Radiation Oncology Cancer Treatment, | |
ISRO | Iranian Society of Radiation Oncology | |
AROI | Association of Radiation Oncology of India | |
ROPA | Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation | |
HRO | Harvard Radiation Oncology | |
CARO | Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology | |
IROC | Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core | |
ROBMS | Radiation Oncology Benefit Management Companies | |
CMRO | Central Maryland Radiation Oncology | |
ROQ | Radiation Oncology Queensland | |
ARRO | Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology | |
ROCL | Radiation Oncology Consultants Limited | |
SFRO | South Florida Radiation Oncology | |
OIRO | Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology | |
OIRO | Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology | |
SROA | Society for Radiation Oncology Administrators | |
ROJ | Radiation Oncology Journal | |
ROSP | Radiation Oncology Sciences Program | |
SEROC | Stanford Emanuel Radiation Oncology Center |
What does radiation oncology mean?
- radiation oncology
- Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is a therapy using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator. Radiation therapy may be curative in a number of types of cancer if they are localized to one area of the body. It may also be used as part of adjuvant therapy, to prevent tumor recurrence after surgery to remove a primary malignant tumor (for example, early stages of breast cancer). Radiation therapy is synergistic with chemotherapy, and has been used before, during, and after chemotherapy in susceptible cancers. The subspecialty of oncology concerned with radiotherapy is called radiation oncology. A physician who practices in this subspecialty is a radiation oncologist. Radiation therapy is commonly applied to the cancerous tumor because of its ability to control cell growth. Ionizing radiation works by damaging the DNA of cancerous tissue leading to cellular death. To spare normal tissues (such as skin or organs which radiation must pass through to treat the tumor), shaped radiation beams are aimed from several angles of exposure to intersect at the tumor, providing a much larger absorbed dose there than in the surrounding healthy tissue. Besides the tumour itself, the radiation fields may also include the draining lymph nodes if they are clinically or radiologically involved with the tumor, or if there is thought to be a risk of subclinical malignant spread. It is necessary to include a margin of normal tissue around the tumor to allow for uncertainties in daily set-up and internal tumor motion. These uncertainties can be caused by internal movement (for example, respiration and bladder filling) and movement of external skin marks relative to the tumor position. Radiation oncology is the medical specialty concerned with prescribing radiation, and is distinct from radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis. Radiation may be prescribed by a radiation oncologist with intent to cure ("curative") or for adjuvant therapy. It may also be used as palliative treatment (where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief) or as therapeutic treatment (where the therapy has survival benefit and can be curative). It is also common to combine radiation therapy with surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy or some mixture of the four. Most common cancer types can be treated with radiation therapy in some way. The precise treatment intent (curative, adjuvant, neoadjuvant therapeutic, or palliative) will depend on the tumor type, location, and stage, as well as the general health of the patient. Total body irradiation (TBI) is a radiation therapy technique used to prepare the body to receive a bone marrow transplant. Brachytherapy, in which a radioactive source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment, is another form of radiation therapy that minimizes exposure to healthy tissue during procedures to treat cancers of the breast, prostate and other organs. Radiation therapy has several applications in non-malignant conditions, such as the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, acoustic neuromas, severe thyroid eye disease, pterygium, pigmented villonodular synovitis, and prevention of keloid scar growth, vascular restenosis, and heterotopic ossification. The use of radiation therapy in non-malignant conditions is limited partly by worries about the risk of radiation-induced cancers.
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