NEJM Group shared a post on LinkedIn:
“A new review summarizes advances in radiotherapy that reduce injury to normal tissue, including improvements in the precision of imaging and delivery, and outlines strategies to prevent and manage treatment-related side effects.
Radiotherapy is a key foundation of oncologic treatment that is used across the spectrum of cancer indications. Advances in imaging, treatment planning, and dose delivery have led to increasingly conformal and even ablative treatments, which have resulted in improved tumor control with no increase in the risk of side effects (or with a decrease in risk) as compared with previous treatments.
These advances have facilitated the combined use of radiotherapy with efficacious systemic therapies, including targeted treatments and…