{"slug":"radiotherapy","tag":"radiotherapy","variants":["radiotherapy"],"description":"People whose work centres on radiation oncology.","count":36,"kinds":{"person":36},"related":[{"slug":"clinician-scientist","tag":"clinician-scientist","shared":13},{"slug":"leadership","tag":"leadership","shared":12},{"slug":"prostate","tag":"prostate","shared":5},{"slug":"breast","tag":"breast","shared":4},{"slug":"sbrt","tag":"sbrt","shared":4},{"slug":"trialist","tag":"trialist","shared":4},{"slug":"head-and-neck-cancer","tag":"head and neck cancer","shared":3},{"slug":"lung","tag":"lung","shared":3},{"slug":"endometrial","tag":"endometrial","shared":2},{"slug":"flash","tag":"flash","shared":2},{"slug":"head-and-neck","tag":"head-and-neck","shared":2},{"slug":"immunotherapy","tag":"immunotherapy","shared":2}],"records":[{"id":"sandra-demaria","kind":"person","name":"Sandra Demaria","route":"/people/sandra-demaria/","tldr":"Weill Cornell pathologist-immunologist known for radiation-immunotherapy research; SITC Vice President."},{"id":"barbara-jereczek-fossa","kind":"person","name":"Barbara Jereczek-Fossa","route":"/people/barbara-jereczek-fossa/","tldr":"Milan radiation oncologist leading ESTRO, Europe's radiotherapy and oncology society."},{"id":"matthias-guckenberger","kind":"person","name":"Matthias Guckenberger","route":"/people/matthias-guckenberger/","tldr":"Zurich radiation oncologist and ESTRO Past-President, a leading voice on stereotactic radiotherapy for oligometastases."},{"id":"daniel-aebersold","kind":"person","name":"Daniel M. Aebersold","route":"/people/daniel-aebersold/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist who chairs the directorate of the University Cancer Center Inselspital in Bern."},{"id":"andrzej-kawecki","kind":"person","name":"Andrzej Kawecki","route":"/people/andrzej-kawecki/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist specialising in head and neck cancer who oversees clinical affairs at Poland's National Research Institute of Oncology."},{"id":"rafael-mariano-grossi","kind":"person","name":"Rafael Mariano Grossi","route":"/people/rafael-mariano-grossi/","tldr":"Argentine diplomat leading the IAEA since 2019, whose Rays of Hope initiative expands radiotherapy and nuclear medicine access in low- and middle-income countries."},{"id":"ralph-weichselbaum","kind":"person","name":"Ralph Weichselbaum","route":"/people/ralph-weichselbaum/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist at the University of Chicago known for the oligometastasis concept and for research linking radiation with anti-tumour immunity."},{"id":"purnima-sundaresan","kind":"person","name":"Purnima Sundaresan","route":"/people/purnima-sundaresan/","tldr":"Sydney radiation oncologist who is President of TROG Cancer Research, Australasia's radiation oncology trials group."},{"id":"hien-le","kind":"person","name":"Hien Le","route":"/people/hien-le/","tldr":"Adelaide radiation oncologist who chairs TROG's Scientific Committee and is its President Elect."},{"id":"tomas-kazda","kind":"person","name":"Tomáš Kazda","route":"/people/tomas-kazda/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist directing science and research at Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, with a research focus on brain tumours and brain metastases."},{"id":"maximilian-niyazi","kind":"person","name":"Maximilian Niyazi","route":"/people/maximilian-niyazi/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist who speaks for the Comprehensive Cancer Center Tübingen-Stuttgart and directs radiation oncology at Tübingen University Hospital."},{"id":"jens-overgaard","kind":"person","name":"Jens Overgaard","route":"/people/jens-overgaard/","tldr":"Pioneering radiation oncologist at Aarhus who led the DAHANCA trials on hypoxia modification and radiotherapy for head and neck cancer."},{"id":"tatsuya-ohno","kind":"person","name":"Tatsuya Ohno","route":"/people/tatsuya-ohno/","tldr":"Carbon-ion radiotherapy specialist who directs the Gunma University Heavy Ion Medical Center, Japan's first university-based carbon-ion cancer treatment facility."},{"id":"hitoshi-ishikawa","kind":"person","name":"Hitoshi Ishikawa","route":"/people/hitoshi-ishikawa/","tldr":"Radiation specialist who has directed QST Hospital in Chiba, Japan's pioneering carbon ion radiotherapy hospital, since April 2024."},{"id":"robert-timmerman","kind":"person","name":"Robert D. Timmerman","route":"/people/robert-timmerman/","tldr":"Pioneer of stereotactic body radiotherapy, whose RTOG 0236 trial made SBRT the standard for inoperable early lung cancer."},{"id":"joe-chang","kind":"person","name":"Joe Y. Chang","route":"/people/joe-chang/","tldr":"Led the trials comparing stereotactic radiotherapy with surgery for operable early lung cancer."},{"id":"david-palma","kind":"person","name":"David A. Palma","route":"/people/david-palma/","tldr":"Led SABR-COMET, the trial that showed treating a few metastases with high-dose radiation can prolong survival."},{"id":"jeffrey-bradley","kind":"person","name":"Jeffrey D. Bradley","route":"/people/jeffrey-bradley/","tldr":"Led RTOG 0617, the trial that showed higher radiation doses do not help in stage III lung cancer and set today's 60 Gy standard."},{"id":"corinne-faivre-finn","kind":"person","name":"Corinne Faivre-Finn","route":"/people/corinne-faivre-finn/","tldr":"Led CONVERT, which set the radiotherapy schedule for limited-stage small-cell lung cancer."},{"id":"anthony-damico","kind":"person","name":"Anthony V. D'Amico","route":"/people/anthony-damico/","tldr":"Created the low, intermediate and high-risk classification that every prostate cancer decision starts from."},{"id":"daniel-spratt","kind":"person","name":"Daniel E. Spratt","route":"/people/daniel-spratt/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist who built AI models from trial slides to decide which prostate cancer patients need hormone therapy."},{"id":"carien-creutzberg","kind":"person","name":"Carien L. Creutzberg","route":"/people/carien-creutzberg/","tldr":"Led the PORTEC trials that defined who needs radiotherapy for endometrial cancer and brought molecular classification into treatment decisions."},{"id":"jean-bourhis","kind":"person","name":"Jean Bourhis","route":"/people/jean-bourhis/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist behind the MACH-NC meta-analyses that proved chemoradiotherapy helps head and neck cancer, and the first FLASH-treated patient."},{"id":"charlotte-coles","kind":"person","name":"Charlotte E. Coles","route":"/people/charlotte-coles/","tldr":"Led IMPORT LOW, which showed partial-breast radiotherapy is as effective as whole-breast treatment with fewer side effects."},{"id":"murray-brunt","kind":"person","name":"A. Murray Brunt","route":"/people/murray-brunt/","tldr":"Led FAST-Forward, which cut breast radiotherapy from three weeks to one with no loss of effectiveness."},{"id":"timothy-whelan","kind":"person","name":"Timothy J. Whelan","route":"/people/timothy-whelan/","tldr":"Led the Canadian trials that established three-week breast radiotherapy and defined when nodal radiotherapy helps."},{"id":"marie-catherine-vozenin","kind":"person","name":"Marie-Catherine Vozenin","route":"/people/marie-catherine-vozenin/","tldr":"Radiobiologist who discovered the FLASH effect: ultra-fast radiation spares healthy tissue while still killing tumours."},{"id":"bas-raaymakers","kind":"person","name":"Bas W. Raaymakers","route":"/people/bas-raaymakers/","tldr":"Physicist who invented the MR-linac, letting radiotherapy see and adapt to the tumour in real time."},{"id":"anthony-zietman","kind":"person","name":"Anthony L. Zietman","route":"/people/anthony-zietman/","tldr":"Led the proton dose-escalation trial in prostate cancer and the comparative-effectiveness debate over proton therapy."},{"id":"quynh-thu-le","kind":"person","name":"Quynh-Thu Le","route":"/people/quynh-thu-le/","tldr":"Chairs NRG Oncology, the largest US radiotherapy cooperative group, and leads head and neck de-escalation trials."},{"id":"shankar-siva","kind":"person","name":"Shankar Siva","route":"/people/shankar-siva/","tldr":"Radiation oncologist who established stereotactic radiotherapy as a non-surgical option for primary kidney cancer."},{"id":"judith-bliss","kind":"person","name":"Judith M. Bliss","route":"/people/judith-bliss/","tldr":"Statistician who ran the START, FAST-Forward and POETIC trials that reshaped breast cancer radiotherapy and endocrine therapy."},{"id":"chris-parker","kind":"person","name":"Chris C. Parker","route":"/people/chris-parker/","tldr":"London radiation oncologist who led ALSYMPCA, the trial that showed radium-223 lengthens survival in prostate cancer that has spread to bone, and RADICALS-RT, which showed radiotherapy after prostatectomy can safely wait until the PSA rises."},{"id":"david-dearnaley","kind":"person","name":"David Dearnaley","route":"/people/david-dearnaley/","tldr":"British radiation oncologist who led CHHiP, the trial that showed prostate cancer can be treated in 20 radiotherapy sessions rather than 37 with the same results, changing practice worldwide."},{"id":"remi-nout","kind":"person","name":"Remi A. Nout","route":"/people/remi-nout/","tldr":"Dutch radiation oncologist who was lead author of PORTEC-2, the trial that showed vaginal brachytherapy is as good as pelvic radiotherapy for high-intermediate-risk endometrial cancer, with fewer side effects."},{"id":"paul-brown","kind":"person","name":"Paul D. Brown","route":"/people/paul-brown/","tldr":"Mayo Clinic radiation oncologist whose trials showed that focused radiosurgery preserves thinking and memory better than whole-brain radiotherapy for brain metastases, and that sparing the hippocampus reduces cognitive harm when whole-brain treatment is needed."}]}