radiation oncology

Preferred Label : radiation oncology;

MeSH definition : A subspecialty of medical oncology and radiology concerned with the radiotherapy of cancer.;

MeSH synonym : oncology, radiation;

MeSH hyponym : therapeutic radiology; Radiology, Therapeutic;

MeSH annotation : SPEC: SPEC qualif; do not confuse X ref THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY (a specialty) with RADIOTHERAPY (a ther technique); DF: RAD ONCOL; do not confuse entry term THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY (a specialty) with RADIOTHERAPY (a therapeutic technique);

Details

Origin ID

D018787;

UMLS CUI

C0243005;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Metaterm(s)
- radiation oncology [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- radiation oncology [MeSH concept]
- therapeutic radiology [MeSH concept]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- radiotherapy [MeSH Descriptor]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Therapeutic Radiology [NCIt concept]
- radiotherapy [Disease (Nov.)]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Radiation Oncology [NCIt concept]
- Radiation oncology [LOINC method]
- Radiation oncology (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
Validated automatic mappings to NTBT
- radiation oncology [CISMeF Metaterm]

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