Radiation Oncology Sites

 

RT Answers – Dictionary of Radiation Oncology Terms

http://www.rtanswers.org/dictionary/dictionary.htm

From the ASTRO website - Basic definitions of common terms used in radiation oncology

 

RT Answers – Treatment information

http://www.rtanswers.org/treatment/treatment_info.htm

From the ASTRO website – Extensive information about radiation treatments broken down by disease and treatment modality

 

Radiation Therapy for Cancer: Questions and Answers

www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/radiation

From National Cancer Institute – The basics of radiation therapy plus links to other aspects of cancer diagnosis and treament

 

Radiation Therapy Principles

www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/eto_1_3_Radiation_Therapy.asp

American Cancer Society’s fact sheet on radiation therapy

 

Proton Therapy

http://massgeneral.org/cancer/about/providers/radiation/proton/whatis.asp

Information on proton therapy from MGH Proton Therapy Center

 

American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

http://www.astro.org/

Society website including news, meeting information, policy, patient resources and more.

 

American Society of Radiologic Technologists

https://www.asrt.org/

Society website including news, career information and professional resources.

 

RTOG – Radiation Therapy Oncology Group – Treatment Protocol Investigations

http://www.rtog.org/

The national cancer research group funded by NCI.  Descriptions and documentation of clinical trials being run by major research institutions in the US and Canada evaluating effectiveness and patient quality of life.

 

Cancer Sites

 

Dictionary of Cancer Terms

http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

National Cancer Institute’s dictionary of 4000 terms relating to cancer

 

Cancer Index

http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks1.htm

A premier guide to the Internet on the subject of cancer.

 

Oncolink

http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu  

A well-known, comprehensive site for patients, families and health care professionals.

 

National Cancer Institute

http://www.nci.nih.gov

 

American Cancer Society

http://www.cancer.org

 

 

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health: Cancer

http://www.noah-health.org/en/cancer/

 

Teaching Files/ Grand Rounds/ Image Files

 

Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/education.html

Offers an extensive list of teaching cases, medical atlases online, and image collections. Image Gallery includes MPEG movies of: ENT, Brain Atlas, Neurosurgery, Multiple Sclerosis, Abdominal Surgery, Flow Analysis, etc.

 

Eurorad

http://eurorad.org/

The online database of the European Association of Radiology. Images can be searched by subspecialties, level of difficulty, or type of case.

 

Virtual Grand Rounds – American Society of Clinical Oncology

http://www.asco.org/ASCO/Abstracts+&+Virtual+Meeting/Virtual+Meeting?&vmview=vm_meeting_tracks_view&confID=18

Video presentations of a variety of cancer topics.

 

My PACS.net Reference Case Manager

http://www.mypacs.net/repos/mpv3_repo/static/m/Home/index.html

Free resource for case studies including images with contributions from many hospitals and imaging centers. 

 

Search Engines

 

Scirus

http://www.scirus.com

Search engine developed by Elsevier Science that indexes over 60 million science-related webpages

 

Google Scholar

http://scholargoogle.com

Search scholarly publications through the Google search engine.

 

This page created by Joanne Doucette. Last modified on August 7, 2008.