Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 19, 2026

Proton Therapy Delivery and Its Clinical Application in Select Solid Tumor Malignancies
Published on: February 6, 2019
Radiation Therapy Survivorship: Healthcare Providers' Perspectives on Education and Care
Michelle Pembroke1, Lynne Nemeth1, Julie Bradley2
1Medical University of South Carolina.
Background:
Survivorship care plans are tools for long-term cancer care management; however, little is known regarding radiation therapy providers' perspectives on survivorship care and education.
Objectives:
This study was designed to identify priorities for improvement in radiation therapy- specific cancer survivorship education.
Methods:
An investigator-developed online survey of healthcare provider communication with patients regarding cancer survivorship was administered within an academic radiation therapy oncology practice. Seventeen survivorship categories were evaluated for each provider, including when and how often survivorship issues were addressed, perceived priority of issues, and provider knowledge of survivorship resources.
Findings:
23 providers responded. Providers reported that the five most important patient concerns were fear of recurrence, radiation therapy side effects, surveillance, preventive measures and nutrition, and stress management. The most time was spent discussing side effects and recurrence risk.
Related Concept Videos
Biological Effects of Radiation
Treatment Resistant Cancers
Cancer Therapies
However, cancer treatments can pose several challenges, as therapies used to kill cancer cells are generally also toxic to normal cells. Moreover, cancer cells mutate rapidly and can develop resistance to chemical agents or radiation therapy. Besides, all types of cancer cells may not respond to the same therapy. Some cancer cells respond to one...
Treatment Resistent Cancers
Nursing Ethical Principles II
Consider the following scenario, which illustrates how these principles are applied in the care of Mr. John, a fifty-year-old teacher diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer.
Initially, Mr. John's cancer...
Cancer Survival Analysis

