Attitudes of radiation oncologists toward palliative and supportive care in the United States: Report on national membership survey by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

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Published in Pract Radiat Oncol on September 07, 2016

Authors

Randy L Wei1, Malcolm D Mattes2, James Yu3, Adrienne Thrasher4, Hui-Kuo Shu5, Harald Paganetti6, Jennifer De Los Santos7, Bridget Koontz8, Christopher Abraham9, Tracy Balboni10

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine, California. Electronic address: rwei@uci.edu.
2: Department of Radiation Oncology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
3: Department of Radiation Oncology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
4: American Society for Radiation Oncology, Arlington, Virginia.
5: Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
6: Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
7: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama.
8: Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
9: Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
10: Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

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