TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Radiation Oncology: Concepts and Techniques A1 - Jacobson, Geraldine A1 - Chi, Alexander A1 - Wang, Dongxu A1 - Devlin, Phillip A1 - Buzorovic, Ivan A1 - Damato, Antonio A1 - O'Farrell, Desmond A1 - Stewart, Alexandra J. A2 - Morita, Shane Y. A2 - Balch, Charles M. A2 - Klimberg, V. Suzanne A2 - Pawlik, Timothy M. A2 - Posner, Mitchell C. A2 - Tanabe, Kenneth K. Y1 - 2018 N1 - T2 - Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology AB - Radiation Oncology is the medical discipline that uses ionizing radiation with therapeutic intent in the management of cancer and selected benign disease. Compared to surgery, radiation is a modern medical treatment. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen first described ionizing radiation as “a new kind of rays” or x-rays in 1895.1 The new modality was used for medical imaging within a month of its discovery and was applied to malignant disease within a few years of its discovery. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145755697 ER -