Moving Forward in the Next Decade: Radiation Oncology Sciences for Patient-Centered Cancer Care.

ABSTRACT: In a time of rapid advances in science and technology, the opportunities for radiation oncology are undergoing transformational change. The linkage between and understanding of the physical dose and induced biological perturbations are opening entirely new areas of application. The ability to define anatomic extent of disease and the elucidation of the biology of metastases has brought a key role for radiation oncology for treating metastatic disease. That radiation can stimulate and suppress subpopulations of the immune response makes radiation a key participant in cancer immunotherapy. Targeted radiopharmaceutical therapy delivers radiation systemically with radionuclides and carrier molecules selected for their physical, chemical, and biochemical properties. Radiation oncology usage of

SUBMITTER: Coleman CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8328099 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature