Current Oncology, Volume 13, Issue 2

We compared the effect of set-up error and uncertainty on two radiation therapy treatment plans for head and neck cancer: one using intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and one using conventional three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy...

Carcinoid tumours are relatively rare and, in general, slow growing. They can be “non-functioning” tumours, presenting as a tumour mass, or “functioning” tumours secondary to the production of several biopeptides leading to the carcinoid syndrome. Th...

The conclusions reached in this review are based on incomplete data. [...]

Medical physics can be generally defined as a field in which applied physics techniques are used in medicine. [...]

Patients with symptomatic metastases referred for outpatient palliative radiotherapy for symptom control at the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (rrrp) and the Bone Metastases Clinic (bmc) at the Toronto–Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre have a li...

Clinical research with human subjects is an ethically challenging task requiring ultimate trust on the part of patients and ultimate respect for persons on the part of clinical researchers. The author provides a simple framework to help researchers e...