…said Springfield’s radiotherapy centre was an important step forward for local cancer control. “The services offered by ROC make cancer treatment more accessible for local patients and help to reduce waiting list times for radiotherapy treatment across the State,” Ms…

Australian children diagnosed with cancer and treated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy are around 50 times more likely to be diagnosed with a secondary therapy-related cancer, compared to the general population. New research by Children’s Health Queensland and Cancer Council…

A type of radiation therapy treatment that implants radioactive material sealed in needles or seeds into or near cancerous cells. Also called internal radiation therapy.

Moveable pieces of metal built into the head of radiation therapy machines to shield normal tissue and organs from the radiation beam.

The individual, usually once daily, dose of radiation that makes up part of a course of radiation therapy treatment.

A type of three-dimensional radiation therapy that allows the radiation beams to be shaped around a tumour more precisely.

…Youlden Reference: Youlden DR, Walwyn TS, Cohn RJ, Harden HE, Pole JD, Aitken JF. Late mortality from other diseases following childhood cancer in Australia and the impact of intensity of treatment. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2021. 68(5):e28835. Read more…

A machine used in external radiation therapy to treat cancer.

A breakdown of bone tissue due to radiation therapy treatment.

Stopping the ovaries from producing oestrogen, which is done surgically (oopherectomy) or with radiation therapy.