Promise of New Vascular-Disrupting Agents Balanced With Cardiac Toxicity: Is It Time for Oncologists to Get to Know Their Cardiologists? Drugs are to the medical oncologist what the scalpel is to the ...
Radiotherapy dose calculation algorithms are essential components of modern treatment planning, ensuring that the prescribed radiation dose conforms as closely as possible to a patient’s tumour while ...
Until 1982, a hospital in the United Kingdom relied on manual calculations for the correct dose to be delivered to the tumour. Treatments were generally performed at a standard source-to-skin distance ...
Dose conversion: A deep learning model predicts the Monte Carlo (MC) dose distribution from the pencil beam (PB) dose, for a prostate cancer case. (a) PB dose distribution; (b) converted dose ...
How many of us give a “full” dose of chemotherapy to an obese patient—even in the curative setting? Dose calculation in the obese is a confusing but important puzzle for the oncologist and is becoming ...