Cancer patients and their families

What is radiation oncology? Here, patients and their families can find a comprehensive guide of radiotherapy treatments in Belgium.

Healthcare professionals and radiation oncology

As a medical professional, you're familiar with the basics of radiotherapy. Visit the following pages for a more elaborate approach on the topic.

Healthcare policy makers and radiation oncology

Radiation oncology is not like other medical specialties. This section deals with existing quality initiatives and cost-effectiveness.

RADIATION ONCOLOGY IN CANCER TREATMENT

BRAVO is the Belgian Radiation Oncology Awareness and Visibility Organization.

Radiation oncology is a medical treatment specialty mainly used to treat cancer and related diseases. It is important to differentiate radiation oncology from radiology, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, chemotherapy and nuclear power production. Click here to find out more what radiation oncology is (and what it is not).

The Belgian radiation oncology providers (physicians, medical physicist, nursing staff) team up with the medical industry that offers the tools and systems to provide high-quality radiation therapy treatments to patients with cancer. The medical and industrial partners within BRAVO decided to create better awareness of radiation-oncology as a very safe and very modern treatment method of cancer. The main aim of this cooperation is to spread this message among patients, medical colleagues, politicians and press.

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