Radiation Oncology

The Department of Radiation Oncology is one of the largest in New England, providing state-of the-art 
clinical treatment to cancer patients in Worcester County.

• Clinical care:
  • Delivers more than 34,000 external teletherapy treatments to patients each year at 8 clinical facilities
  • Using image guided platforms with three-dimensional treatment simulators for treatment planning and 
    execution, the department provides extensive brachytherapy services including genitourinary and 
    gynecological applications to patients
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• Education:
  • Houses an internal school for radiation therapy technology that has graduated 15 classes of highly
    specialized and actively recruited students since its inception
  • Serves as the academic infrastructure for radiation science at UMass Chan Medical School
•  Research:
  • IROC Rhode Island (QARC) is a research program within the Department of Radiation Oncology that provides quality assurance and data management services for diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy
    in the NCI's National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN). 
  • The department has several research interests, with particular emphasis on signaling pathways and cellular adhesion molecules. Most of the targeted oncology therapies developed in the past five years
    include tyrosine kinase-based therapies that sensitize cancer cells to radiation therapy. Identifying the interactions between these therapies and radiation therapy is the focus of the translational research
    effort, with collaborations promoted through the Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology.