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A patient is being treated for a skin lesion and the order calls for 1 cm of superflab bolus. As the treating therapist, you begin to notice the area you are treating is becoming irritated and moist with each fraction of radiation.  The patient is not complaining of soreness in the affected area, but you feel sorry for your patient. The correct thing to do as the treating therapist is to

For patients with descending large colon cancer, the main dose-limiting structure for acute and chronic side effects is the:

Primary and metastatic brain patients are given corticosteroids to reduce inflammation fo their cancer. What would be a corticosteroid that would be prescribed? 

Based on this image, at what level in the thorax is this image obtained?

Radiation therapists are responsible for monitoring their patients while under treatment. Which of the following would not be a specific effect from radiation?

Portal imaging is considered mandatory not only as a good clinic practice but as a

As the energy of a megavoltage beam increases, the distance between the surface and the depth of the maximum dose increases, this gives rise to what is known as

The most common pathology for patients presenting with breast cancer is  

The type of contour that runs across the patient from left to right and sections the body into inferior and superior portions:

The following is a true statement about a 20 MV beam?