Doing the right thing: Quality in radiotherapy, a European perspective
(2018) Radiotherapy & Oncology — Vol. 127, n° 2, p. 161-163 (2018)
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Scalliet, Pierre 
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- (en) Only few months ago, on November 7th 2017, we celebratedMarie Sklodowska Curie’s 150th birthday. She was a Polish che-mist-physicist, a brilliant scientist, the first woman ever beingawarded a Nobel Prize. She discovered Radium and Polonium,and, together with the discovery of X-rays by Roentgen, pavedthe way for the medical application of radiation. Radiation therapyhas since evolved to be a corner stone of oncology treatment, effec-tively saving and prolonging lives of cancer patients, while improv-ing or preserving their quality of life. As one out of two cancerpatients should receive radiotherapy at least once during thecourse of their disease, the impact of her work, and of radiationoncology, is major. [...]
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Vaandering, A., Jornet, N., Scalliet, P., Coffey, M., & Lievens, Y. (2018). Doing the right thing: Quality in radiotherapy, a European perspective. Radiotherapy & Oncology, 127(2), 161-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2018.02.017 (Original work published 2018)