Abstract:
Radiation therapy is a great example of the application of physics in oncology. The objective of radiation therapy is to deliver sufficient high dose to the target volume in the patient to achieve the maximum malignant cell kill while minimizing the dose both to the nearby organs at risk and to the normal tissue.
Recent technological advances have provided many tools for highly conformal physical dose delivery. Functional image-guided radiotherapy and possible enhancement of the body’s antitumor immunity with radiation have the potential to improve the tumour control probability. This talk will provide a review of the current state-of-the-art radiation therapy and will outline some of the future developments to enhance its efficacy.
