Institute for Data Engineering and Science Expands Leadership Team
New leadership appointments will rejuvenate and further strengthen IDEaS to better serve research staff, faculty, and students.
Radiation therapy has been — and will be — a cornerstone of cancer treatment for good reason: It works.
Mostly.
Currently, more than half of cancer patients receive radiation as part of their treatment. But 20 percent of them, give or take, will find that they need different options because their tumors are resistant to radiation therapy. It’s a bad place to be: They may still face the potential side effects without the therapeutic benefit, and they’ve lost precious time.