Radiotherapy is used in> 50% of patients with cancer, both for curative and palliative
purposes. Radiotherapy uses ionizing radiation to target and kill tumour tissue, but normal …

Radiotherapy is one of the main therapeutic methods for treating cancer. The digestive
system consists of the gastrointestinal tract and the accessory organs of digestion (the …

Purpose Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death, with a very
low 5-year overall survival rate (OS). Radiation therapy (RT) together with dose escalation …

Background Rectal spacers are used to limit dose to the anterior rectal wall in high dose
external beam radiation therapy of the prostate and have been shown to reduce radiation …

Aim To identify the effect of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) interactions on the risk of
toxicity following radiotherapy (RT) for prostate cancer (PCa) and propose a new method for …

Purpose Major advances in delivery systems in recent years have turned radiotherapy (RT)
into a more effective way to manage prostate cancer. Still, adjacency of organs at risk …

Background. A multifactorial decision support system (mDSS) is a tool designed to improve
the clinical decision‐making process, while using clinical inputs for an individual patient to …

Background and purpose To evaluate spatial differences in dose distributions of the ano-
rectal wall (ARW) using dose-surface maps (DSMs) between prostate cancer patients …

The use of radiotherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer has evolved from treatments
utilizing large fields with hand placed blocks to radiotherapy treatments given with a linear …

Skin cancer (SC) is a widely spread disease in the USA, Canada, and Australia. Skin cancer
patients may be treated by many different techniques including radiation therapy. However …