Three discipline collaborative radiation therapy (3DCRT) special debate: Systemic radiotherapy using targeted isotopes is the best hope for advancing curative radiation therapy

Abstract

Radiation oncology is a highly multidisciplinary medical specialty, drawing significantly from three scientific disciplines-medicine, physics, and biology. As a result, discussion of controversies or changes in practice within radiation oncology involves input from all three disciplines. We have adopted a similar "team-science" approach to the traditional debates featured in this journal. This article is part of a series of special debates entitled "Three Discipline Collaborative Radiation Therapy (3DCRT)" in which each debate team includes three multidisciplinary team members with the hope that thisThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.