Radiation therapy (RT) is responsible for at least 40% of cancer cures, however treatment
resistance remains a clinical problem. There have been recent advances in understanding …

Radiotherapy (RT) is a mainstay treatment for many types of cancer, although it is still a
large challenge to enhance radiation damage to tumor tissue and reduce side effects to …

The linear-quadratic model is one of the key tools in radiation biology and physics. It
provides a simple relationship between cell survival and delivered dose:, and has been …

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The biological effectiveness of proton beams relative to photon beams in radiation therapy
has been taken to be 1.1 throughout the history of proton therapy. While potentially …

The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU), since its
inception in 1925, has had as its principal objective the development of internationally …

Oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is an important factor
in treatment resistance and poor survival. Hypoxia is an attractive therapeutic target …

Background and purpose Both stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) and immune-or targeted
therapy play an increasingly important role in personalized treatment of metastatic disease …

Purpose To assess the outcome of prostate cancer (PCa) patients diagnosed with
oligometastatic disease at recurrence and treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy …

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and amino acid positron-emission
tomography (PET) of the brain contain a vast amount of structural and functional information …