Description:
Graduates of this program seek careers in health-care settings, working with a team of oncology professionals who use carefully targeted doses of powerful radiation beams to destroy tumors with-out permanently damaging the surrounding normal tissues. Working with physicians, medical physicists, and medical dosimetrists, the radiation therapist assists in a wide range of other tasks, including using x-ray equipment to locate the precise area to be treated, constructing patient immobilization and beam shaping devices, using highly specialized computers to plan the treatment, and calculating the radiation dose.
Program Type:
2+2 Program with SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse