YOUR SUPPORT TEAM

Your treatment team will be a partner in your care. Your radiation oncology treatment team is made up of many different healthcare professionals. Each has special training and experience in treating your type of cancer with radiation therapy. Your treatment team will work with you to be sure you get the most affective radiation treatment possible. They will get to know you well and you will get to know them. You will find that they are interested in you as a whole person and not just in your disease.

 

The Team:

• Radiation Oncologist: Doctor who specializes in using radiation to treat cancer.

• Radiation Therapist: A licensed therapist with specialty training in the fields of radiation physics, biology, radiation safety and computer-aided biophysics. The therapist sets up your daily radiation treatment, positions you and delivers the prescribed dose of radiation.

• Radiation Physicist: Helps plan the technical part of your treatment. Your radiation physicists decides the best shape and angles for the treatment beams. They make sure the equipment works as planned and delivers the right amount of radiation.

• Dosimetrist: is a specialist who calculates and plans the doses of radiation therapy.