Departments, Schools, Colleges

RADIATION ONCOLOGY (RONC)

Contact Information:

Department of Radiation Oncology The University of Arizona Arizona Cancer Center Arizona Health Sciences Center, 1968 1501 North Campbell Ave PO Box 245091 Tucson, AZ 85724-5091

Phone: (520) 626-6724, Fax: 626-3141 Email: tfranks@email.arizona.edu Web: Department Homepage

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• RONC Course Descriptions

Medical student electives are described in the College of Medicine Electives Manual.

The Department:

The Department of Radiation Oncology is in the College of Medicine.

Radiation Oncology is that discipline of medicine concerned with the application of radiation in the treatment of patients, the majority of whom have benign and/or malignant neoplasms. The discipline is also concerned with the interactions and modifiers of radiation in tissues, as well as subcellular, cellular and organ effects of such treatment. The department consists of two sections: Clinical Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy Physics.  A Cancer Biology section is affiliated with the department.

For more information contact the department listed above.