What is radiation oncology?
Radiation oncology is a branch of clinical medicine that uses ionising radiation, alone or in combination with other therapeutic modalities, to treat cancer and other non-neoplastic diseases.
In the clinical realm, the speciality deals with the study and treatment of cancer patients; the study and treatment of non-cancer patients with diseases that are susceptible to radiation treatment; and the study, treatment and monitoring of individuals who undergo diagnostic, therapeutic, accidental or any other source of radiation.
Which patients is it for?
Our professionals specialise in various conditions, including:
- Brain tumours
- Head and neck tumours
- Lung tumours
- Digestive tumours
- Urologic tumours
- Gynaecological tumours
- Bones
- Soft tissues
- Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin lymphomas
- Lymphomas
- Melanomas
Main treatments
- External radiation therapy
- RTC-3D
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
- Radiosurgery
- Brain fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (brain FSRT)
- Spinal-skull irradiation
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT)
- Total skin electron irradiation (TSEI)
- Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
- Brachytherapy
- Endocavitary: gynaecological, bronchial, oesophageal, nasopharynx
- Interstitial: head and neck, gynaecological, breast, skin.
- Prostate: I125-seed high-dose rate brachytherapy
- Intraoperative
- Plexiotherapy: epitheliomas, eyelid lesions, pterygium, keloids
- Combined Treatments
- Prescription of chemotherapy or intravenous biological drugs
- Prescription of oral chemotherapy
- Prescription of hormone therapy
