1. Clinical Oncology And Research Impact Factor
2. Clinical Oncology Study Section
3. Clinical Oncology Specialist

Clinical oncology relates to any type of cancer treatment that is not surgery, including radiotherapy and systemic therapies. Most cancer patients have more than one method of treatment, such as surgery to. Letter regarding, “Association between the use of aspirin and risk of lung cancer: results from.

Gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by duodenal metastasis from a primary lung adenocarcinoma: A case report

Minjie Zhu, Jianchang Shu, Xuyou Liu, Lei Leng, Qi Wen

Severe hypoglycaemia under abemaciclib administration in a patient with breast cancer: A case report

Tatsuo Horie, Tsunetaka Kijima, Minekazu Yamaguchi, Satoshi Honda, Miyako Horie, Kazunari Ishitobi, Shingo Yamagata, Shigeru Sakano, Kazutaka Kurokohchi

Postoperative delirium in patients undergoing tumor resection with reconstructive surgery for oral cancer

Nozomu Takahashi, Akimitsu Hiraki, Kenta Kawahara, Masashi Nagata, Ryoji Yoshida, Yuichiro Matsuoka, Takuya Tanaka, Yuko Obayashi, Junki Sakata, Hikaru Nakashima, Hidetaka Arita, Masanori Shinohara, Hideki Nakayama

Baseline anemia and anemia grade are independent prognostic factors for stage IV non‑small cell lung cancer

Cheng Chen, Zhengbo Song, Wenxian Wang, Juying Zhou

D‑amino acid oxidase (DAO) rare genetic missense variant p.Pro103Leu and gastric cancer

Yuan Zong, Masashi Tanaka, Masaaki Muramatsu, Tomio Arai

Clinical Oncology And Research Impact Factor

Safety of same‑day administration of gemcitabine plus cisplatin chemotherapy for urothelial carcinoma

Ibuki Tsuru, Fusako Niimi, Sachi Honda, Takeshi Azuma

The predictive factor for pathological downgrading after prostatectomy in patients with biopsy Gleason score 4+3 or 4+4 prostate cancer

Yoichiro Tohi, Iori Matsuda, Kengo Fujiwara, Satoshi Harada, Ayako Ito, Mari Yamasaki, Yasuyuki Miyauchi, Yuki Matsuoka, Takuma Kato, Rikiya Taoka, Hiroyuki Tsunemori, Nobufumi Ueda, Mikio Sugimoto

Preoperative transarterial embolization for solitary fibrous tumor of the tongue: A case report

On Hasegawa, Masato Watanabe, Michihide Kono, Daisuke Yunaiyama, Daichi Chikazu

Postoperative C‑reactive protein‑to‑albumin ratio predicts poor prognosis in patients with bladder cancer undergoing radial cystectomy

Kenji Kuroda, Shinsuke Tasaki, Akio Horiguchi, Keiichi Ito

Feasibility of hippocampal dose‑volume parameters associated with memory decline in intensity‑modulated radiotherapy for supratentorial tumors

Shigeo Takahashi, Masahide Anada, Toshifumi Kinoshita, Takamasa Nishide, Shohei Kozai, Toru Shibata

The tuberous sclerosis complex‑associated giant renal angiomyolipoma: A case report

Pengfei Sun, Shuangxing Chen, Zhengming Su, Yongzhong He

Sentinel lymph node biopsy with one‑step nucleic acid assay relegates the need for preoperative ultrasound‑guided biopsy staging of the axilla in patients with early stage breast cancer

Bello Inua, Victoria Fung, Nour Al‑Shurbasi, Sarah Howells, Olga Hatsiopoulou, Praveen Somarajan, Gregory J. Zardin, Norman R. Williams, Stan Kohlhardt

Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans of the breast: A case study

Dionysios Dimas, Ioannis Boutas, Anastasios Potiris, Nektarios Koufopoulos, Dimitrios Balalis, Kyparissia Sitara, Fotios Danglis, Ioannis Misitzis

Axillary lymph node recurrence in patients with breast cancer who underwent breast reconstruction using a latissimus dorsi flap after mastectomy

Goshi Oda, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Noriko Uemura, Hiroki Mori, Mio Mori, Tomoyuki Fujioka, Iichiroh Onishi, Hiroyuki Uetake

Durable response achieved using Pazopanib for germ tumor cells: A case report

Yuta Takezawa, Hiroshi Yaegashi, Masashi Iijima, Shohei Kawaguchi, Takahiro Nohara, Kazuyoshi Shigehara, Kouji Izumi, Yoshihumi Kadono, Hiroko Ikeda, Atsushi Mizokami

Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis of malignant melanoma:Two cases with rim signs in contrast‑enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: A case report

Haruki Mizuta, Kenjiro Namikawa, Kenta Nakama, Naoya Yamazaki

Pathologic complete response with radiation and vismodegib in a patient with advanced basal cell carcinoma: A case report

Arya Amini, Morganna Freeman, Laleh Melstrom, Kim A. Margolin, Vishwas Parekh, Farah R. Abdulla, Badri Modi

A retrospective analysis of radiotherapy in the treatment of external auditory canal carcinoma

Atsuto Katano, Ryousuke Takenaka, Hideomi Yamashita, Mizuo Ando, Masafumi Yoshida, Yuki Saito, Takahiro Asakage, Osamu Abe, Keiichi Nakagawa

Clinical Oncology Study Section

Absence of meaningful neurocognitive recovery in comatose patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma despite an effective response to chemotherapy: Case reports

Ryan Mao Heng Lim, Jason Yongsheng Chan

March-2021
Volume 14 Issue 3

Print ISSN: 2049-9450
Online ISSN:2049-9469

Clinical oncology relates to any type of cancer treatment that is not surgery, including radiotherapy and systemic therapies.

Most cancer patients have more than one method of treatment, such as surgery to remove a tumour, followed by radiotherapy and/or systemic therapy. The surgery would be completed by a surgical oncologist (or possibly another type of doctor called an interventional oncologist) and the other treatments would be organised and given by a clinical or medical oncologist and their team. Both clinical oncologists and medical oncologists deliver non-surgical cancer treatment, although only clinical oncologists are qualified to deliver radiotherapy. Our Guide to the non-surgical oncology team, produced jointly with the Royal College of Physicians, explains the difference between the two specialties in more detail.

What is radiotherapy?

Clinical Oncology Specialist

Radiotherapy uses the radiation energy from machine-generated particles and radioactive materials to precisely target and kill tumours. Radiotherapy typically refers to 'external beam' radiotherapy, where patients are treated with X-rays beamed into the body, most often created by a machine called a linear accelerator (LINAC). A newer type of external beam radiotherapy called proton beam therapy, which uses proton particles instead of X-rays, has also started being used in the UK for patients with very specific cancers.

What is brachytherapy?

Brachytherapy is a type of internal radiotherapy, where radioactive materials called radioisotopes are inserted inside a patient to kill cancer cells. Examples include using radioiodine to treat thyroid cancer and iridium to treat cervical cancer.

What are systemic therapies?

Systemic therapies include chemotherapy, which stops cancer cells multiplying; hormone therapy, which limits hormones that can encourage cancer to grow; and immunotherapy, which primes the body’s immune system to fight cancer.