4 2011
IMAGING & ONCOLOGY
editorial A change for the better
Welcome to the 2011 issue of Imaging & Oncology, which features 10 articles on some of the hottest topics affecting our professions. In addition to their contemporary relevance, each one describes, calls for, or predicts change.
We begin with three cutting-edge radiotherapy topics describing revolutionary advances in technique. Two papers by leading academics from the United Kingdom and the United States discuss the changing face of radiographic education. There are also articles discussing how imaging services for stroke/TIA must be improved and how uterine artery embolisation must become more widely available.
Hiorns takes us on a step-by-step guide through the new Imaging Services Accreditation Scheme, and provides helpful tips for others who will undoubtedly be preparing to embark on the same process. From nuclear medicine, a team describes the importance of sentinel node detection in breast cancer, and fi nally, Curtin predicts the likely impact recently published cardiac guidelines may have on CT departments.
Some years ago, Queen Elizabeth II commented, “I sometimes sense the world is changing too fast for its inhabitants, at least for us older ones.” Nowhere is this more obvious than within the world of imaging and oncology. But radiographers, radiologists, physicists, and educationalists have not only kept pace with change but are, of course, responsible for accelerating it, as demonstrated in the following pages.
Whether in terms of improving patient survival rates, developing better treatment outcomes, or setting higher practice standards, all describe change for the better.
See what you think please and read on.
Hazel Edwards
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