UW Medical Physics Residents Win NWAAPM Awards
Congratulations to UW Radiation Oncology Medical Physics Residents Da Wang for winning the 1st place and Brandon Koger for winning the 2nd place for the Young Investigator Symposium Award at the NWAAPM in Portland, Oregon on May 11th, 2018.
Read moreFive UW Radiation Oncology Physicians Awarded as Top Doctors in Seattle for 2018!
Congratulations to Drs. Wui-Jin Koh, George E. Laramore, Nina Mayr, Jason Rockhill, and Kenneth Russell for being selected as one of the Top Doctors in Seattle for 2018 by Seattle Magazine!
Read moreUW Faculty and Engineer Receives PMB Best Paper Award – The Roberts Prize
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.
Read moreUW faculty receives U.S. DoE award to improve the availability of Astatine-211 labeled radiopharmaceuticals for radiation therapy
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Wilbur for receiving a major research grant from the U.S. DoE to improve cancer treatment.
Read moreRadiation Oncology Medical Staff Received 2018 UWMC Patient Safety Heroes Award
Congratulations to Lora Holland, and Jamie Bartalamay, our radiation therapists for winning the award as 2018 UWMC Patient Safety Heroes.
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The Benefit of Proton Therapy for Children in Developing Countries
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.
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