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Medical Services
Physicist
Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada (CCCN)
has a board certified medical physicist and board-certification-eligible
physicists on its radiation oncology staff to assure that the highest
level of quality care is maintained in radiation oncology. The radiation
oncology services of CCCN are also accredited by the American College
of Radiology.
The medical physicist is frequently consulted by the radiation oncologist to help design a treatment. Futher, the physicist is relied upon to do the quality assurance of every treatment plan before it starts, ensuring the planned-for information has been correctly transferred to the machine, that the plan agrees with the physician’s prescription, and that all information is correct, clear, and well-documented. Physicists commission new treatment techniques, such as the new, high-tech intensity-modulated radiation treatment (IMRT) available at CCCN, which involves a highly intensive quality assurance procedure.
Medical physicists also instruct others on their team: other physicists, dosimetrists, nurses, technicians and radiation therapists.
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