Research News

On November 24, 2020 Elekta published an article in its Focus online magazine on work done by the Rad Onc team at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

Medical Physics Residents Natalie Viscariello and Afua Yorke present clinical development talks at the NWAAPM Chapter Meeting on September 25, 2020.

Dr. Goff was recently awarded a $30,000 grant for his work on DNA damage response inhibitors and radiation for merkel cell carcinoma immunogenic cell death.

Congratulations to UW Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Residents Da Wang for winning the 1^st place and Brandon Koger for winning the 2^nd place for the Young Investigator Symposium Award at the NWAAPM in Portland, Oregon on May 11^th, 2018.

Congratulations Drs. Eric Ford, Jeff Schwartz, Ning Cao, Juergen Meyer, Ramesh Rengan, Jing Zeng, and George Sandison, and engineer Rob Emery for receiving the Roberts Prize for the Best Paper in 2018 of the journal Physics in Medicine & Biology 2018.

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Wilbur for receiving a major research grant from the U.S. DoE to improve cancer treatment.

About 80% of children with the most common pediatric brain cancer live in low- and middle-income countries. There they have little access to advanced radiotherapies, such as proton therapy, to reduce treatment side effects. Dr. Phil Taddei explores challenges of this missed benefit in a commentary.

Congratulations to Drs. Smith Apisarnthanarax and Stephen Bowen for 2^nd place; and Howard Lee with Drs. Jing Zeng, Stephen Bowen, and Ramesh Rengan for 3^rd place on the Cureus’ Proton Therapy Advanced Application for the Most Challenging Cases Publishing Competition!

Dr. Lia Halasz was invited to give an expert commentary on this research in JAMA Oncology, where she put the research findings into the perspective of the care and quality of life of glioma patients.

Being diagnosed with a brain tumor can be a life-changing event. At the Gamma Knife Center at Harborview, making your treatment as comfortable as possible is our main priority.