American Society for Radiation Oncology

Descriptor
Associated Locale
Associated Language
Field of Activity
Cancer--Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy
(lcsh) Radiologists--Services for

found: Practical radiation oncology, Jan./Mar. 2012:t.p. (ASTRO; The American Society for Radiation Oncology)

found: International journal of radiation oncology, biology [and] physics, March 1, 2009:title page (American Society for Radiation Oncology; ASTRO) ; February 1, 2009: title page (American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology; ASTRO)

found: Its website, viewed 12 December 2018:home page (ASTRO; 251 18th Street South, 8th Floor Arlington, VA 22202) about page (members are physicians, nurses, biologists, physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists and other health care professionals who specialize in treating patients with radiation therapies) history page (at ASTRO's 50th Annual Meeting in Boston in September 2008, the membership decided to change ASTRO's name to the American Society for Radiation Oncology while keeping the acronym ASTRO; it was decided that the term "therapeutic radiology" was outdated and confusing and that the new name would better reflect the specialty; the new name took effect in January 2009)