Introduction: Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death for women in Haiti. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of HPV self-sampling using CareHPV™ and subsequent treatment with cryotherapy ...

Background: Acutely painful conditions, responsible for a large proportion of Emergency Department patients around the world, are inadequately assessed and poorly treated. Routine use of scales to quantify pain is recommended ...

Treatment errors can occur in high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy, but, currently, there is a lack of real-time treatment verification systems that are clinically available and thus many errors are only determined retrospectively, ...

Translational cancer research has been around for many years and has resultedin many advancements in cancer treatment. Preclinical radiation therapy is an importanttool used in some studies to better understand the biological ...

Purpose: Radiochromic film remains a useful and versatile clinical dosimetry tool. While simple to use, current film options are single use, with no forms of reusable film available commercially. Here we introduce a novel ...

The thesis has two parts. The first project relates to real time dosimetry in Gynecological (GYN) High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy Treatments and the second part investigates a new workflow for Image Guided Brachytherapy ...

Since 2010, Duke University Medical Center has used the single-isocenter technique to treat patients with multiple brain metastases. The purpose of this project is to compare treatment planning techniques for these patients ...

Background: India has the highest burden of cervical cancer mortality, globally, with 67,477 deaths in 2012. A novel device, the transvaginal digital colposcope (TVDC), or a small handheld colposcope, could potentially improve ...

Purpose:A new development in linac-based intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and extracranial stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is treatment of multiple targets using single isocenter volumetric modulated ...

AbstractBackground: Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) is a novel biomarker that is utilized as a tool to assist with the diagnosis and management of asthma in developed countries. Little data exists from sub-Saharan ...