Radiation oncology/Related Articles
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- See also changes related to Radiation oncology, or pages that link to Radiation oncology or to this page or whose text contains "Radiation oncology".
Parent topics
- Oncology [r]: The medical diagnosis and treatment of neoplasia, using pharmacologic, radiation, immunologic and surgical techniques; relevant formal subspecialties are medical oncology in internal medicine and radiation oncology in radiology; surgeons also may specialize in neoplasia [e]
- Radiology [r]: A physician specialty with a core competence in obtaining and diagnosing by means of instruments that receive energy transmitted through the body; there are a number of subspecialties. [e]
Subtopics
Planning
- Computer-assisted radiotherapy planning [r]: Computer-assisted mathematical calculations of beam angles, intensities of radiation, and duration of irradiation in radiotherapy [e]
- Dose fractionation [r]: Administration of the total dose of radiation (radiation dosage) in parts, at timed intervals [e]
- Health physics [r]: The science concerned with problems of radiation protection relevant to reducing or preventing radiation exposure, and the effects of ionizing radiation on humans and their environment [e]
Therapies
- Brachytherapy [r]: A collective term for interstitial, intracavity, and surface radiotherapy. It uses small sealed or partly-sealed sources that may be placed on or near the body surface or within a natural body cavity or implanted directly into the tissues. [e]
- Electron beam therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plesiotherapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- X-ray therapy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antineoplastic agent [r]: Drug that prevents the development, maturation, or spread of neoplastic cells. [e]
- Breast cancer [r]: Cancer of the glandular breast tissue. [e]
- Adipocyte [r]: Cell that stores fat and makes it available for use as energy. [e]
- Autoimmune disease [r]: Disorders that are characterized by the production of antibodies that react with host tissues or immune effector cells that are autoreactive to endogenous peptides. [e]
- Glioblastoma [r]: An aggressively invasive neoplasm of the central nervous system, primarily the brain; not curable but length of survival has improved somewhat in recent years [e]