International Cancer Organisations
In many countries around the world, cancer organisations provide independent information, advice and support to patients. When you are thinking about your treatment options, it can be useful to get …
Course: An Introduction to Radiation Oncology: From Diagnosis to Survivorship
SDM: Sharing decisions about your health care
In the next three steps, you can learn more about if, when and how you can be involved and share treatment decisions. In this first step, you can read and …
Sharing Medical Decisions With Your Treatment Team
Sharing decisions about your treatment with your treatment team does not always happen naturally. There are many reasons why healthcare professionals do not always invite their patients to make decisions …
Shared Decision Making Tools
In this step, we offer you a list of shared decision-making tools that are currently available online to help you with decision-making. You can certainly share treatment decisions with your …
New developments in radiation therapy
Advances in radiation therapy delivery and technology mean that higher doses of radiation therapy can now be specifically directed to regions that need it. Other areas, where the risk of …
Who’s who: Medical physicist
Another member of the expert radiation therapy team is the Medical Physicist. We are going to meet Daniela Thorwarth, who will explain how her work impacts on cancer patients. © …
Who’s who: Radiobiologist
Radiobiology is considered a relatively new field of science, even though it has existed since the early 1900s. Radiation was seen as a miracle cure and used in medicine within …
Radiation treatment modalities
There are many different ways of delivering radiation therapy (known as modalities), and in this article we are going to look at two main types: external beam radiation therapy and …
How safe is radiation therapy?
As Eduardo mentioned in the video, radiation therapy is a very safe treatment. Radiation oncology departments are subject to highly rigorous safety checks and audits. In fact, safety checks for …
This week: Science, managing cancers and survivorship.
Welcome back! This week on the course we will be exploring: The science behind radiation therapy How radiation therapy is delivered through cutting edge technology Treating specific cancers including prostate …
Thanks and goodbye
Well done for completing this introduction to Radiation Therapy course! We hope you have enjoyed this short course and that it can support you, your family or your career in …
Survivorship
Survivorship is a term that is often used when patients have completed their cancer treatment, but this does not mean that cancer patients consider themselves ‘survivors’. When patients are transitioning …
Follow up care
Yatman Tsang is a Consultant Radiation Therapist at the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Middlesex, England. He is going to answer some common questions about what follow up care is, and …
Post treatment/Survivorship
Following radiation therapy, together with other treatments for cancer, patients still need support for a variety of reasons. As Donal mentions in the video, these can be grouped into three …
Radiation therapy in palliative care
Many patients hear the word “palliative’ and fear that it means it is the end of their life. However, palliative radiation therapy refers to the therapy which can bring relief …
These articles are from the online course:
An Introduction to Radiation Oncology: From Diagnosis to Survivorship