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Ways the job specializes

• Brachytherapy

  Placing a radioactive source inside or against the tumor. Hands-on, procedural, and a skill in short supply.

• Stereotactic treatment

  Very high doses aimed with millimeter accuracy, sometimes in a single session.

• Pediatric radiation oncology

  Treating children, where sparing growing tissue matters for the next sixty years.

• Proton therapy

  A different kind of beam at a small number of centers. Working with it means moving to where the machine is.