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Radiation oncology is a wide discipline of human sciences that joints many of the conceptual basis of physics, biology, and medicine and is funded on the knowledge of the fundamental principles of (1) cancer and normal tissue molecular biology, (2) basic and medical physics and dosimetry, (3) physical and biologic interaction of radiation with normal and malignant tissues, (4) high-precision imaging, and (5) the effect of the combined use of radiations with other treatment modalities, such as surgery, drugs, and other physical energies. The multidisciplinary education of radiation oncologists is the foundation for a high quality of the patient’s care.
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Orecchia, R. (2017). Conceptual Basis and Principles of Radiation Oncology. In: Veronesi, U., Goldhirsch, A., Veronesi, P., Gentilini, O., Leonardi, M. (eds) Breast Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48848-6_50
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