Advances in personalized radiotherapy

Venkata Sk Manem; Farzad Taghizadeh-Hesary

doi:10.1186/s12885-024-12317-3

Advances in personalized radiotherapy

BMC Cancer. 2024 May 3;24(1):556. doi: 10.1186/s12885-024-12317-3.

Authors

Venkata Sk Manem^{1

2}, Farzad Taghizadeh-Hesary^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.
² Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada.
³ ENT and Head and Neck Research Center and Department, The Five Senses Health Institute, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. farzadth89@gmail.com.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. farzadth89@gmail.com.

Abstract

Radiotherapy is a mainstay of cancer treatment. The clinical response to radiotherapy is heterogeneous, from a complete response to early progression. Recent studies have explored the importance of patient characteristics in response to radiotherapy. In this editorial, we invite contributions for a BMC Cancer collection of articles titled 'Advances in personalized radiotherapy' towards the improvement of treatment response.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Humans
Neoplasms / diagnosis
Neoplasms / genetics
Neoplasms / radiotherapy
Precision Medicine* / methods
Precision Medicine* / trends
Prognosis
Radiotherapy* / methods
Radiotherapy* / trends