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Radiation was first applied in a clinical setting by an American medical student, Emil Grubbe, on 29th January 1896. Grubbe, the son of German immigrants, introduced the term “radiotherapy” in 1903: “He had been interested in comparing the effects of phototherapy and radiotherapy” [1]. Since then, the field of radiation oncology has developed rapidly in parallel with technology, and has become indispensable in the treatment of cancers.
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Beyzadeoglu, M., Ozyigit, G., Ebruli, C. (2010). Clinical Radiation Oncology. In: Basic Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11666-7_3
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