Radiation therapy is the therapeutic use of ionizing radiation to treat disease, principally cancer, by delivering precisely targeted dose to a tumour volume while sparing surrounding normal tissue. Its biological effect derives from radiation-induced DNA damage, particularly double-strand breaks, that triggers cell…
Radiation therapy is the therapeutic use of ionizing radiation to treat disease, principally cancer, by delivering precisely targeted dose to a tumour volume while sparing surrounding normal tissue. Its biological effect derives from radiation-induced DNA damage, particularly double-strand breaks, that triggers cell death in proliferating malignant cells; fractionation exploits differential repair between tumour and normal tissue. Modalities include external-beam techniques, stereotactic radiosurgery and brachytherapy, and treatment is frequently integrated with surgery, systemic therapy and immunotherapy. Accurate target-volume definition through multimodality imaging, treatment planning and dosimetry are central to efficacy and toxicity control. Work in this area covers combination of radiation therapy and immunotherapy in melanoma, comparative survival with two- versus three-dimensional brachytherapy in cervical cancer, target-volume definition for radiosurgery of atypical meningiomas using multimodality imaging, radiation-induced maxillary angiosarcoma as a late effect, complementary and alternative approaches in cancer care, adverse events after total laryngectomy in radiated patients, and management of paediatric nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Related oncology including breast cancer with post-traumatic stress, cervical cancer signalling pathways and thyroid sarcoma situates radiotherapy within multidisciplinary tumour management. The journal publishes peer-reviewed clinical and translational research on radiation oncology, treatment planning and combined-modality cancer therapy.
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