Research
Clinical
Clinical Trials Research
Clinical trials are research studies in which people help doctors find ways to improve health and cancer care. Each study tries to answer scientific questions and to find better ways to prevent, diagnose, or treat cancer. A clinical trial is one of the final stages of a long and careful cancer research process. Studies are done with cancer patients to find out whether promising approaches to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are safe and effective.
The department of Radiation Oncology has a clinical trials staff working to develop and implement research studies for our patients. There are currently open clinical trials with the CCOP Research Base, Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University, industry groups, and cooperative groups. Click here to search for clinical trials available at WFUBMC.
Bioanatomic Imaging and Treatment Program
The Bioanatomic Imaging and Treatment (BAIT) Program is a clinical and research program at North Carolina Baptist Hospitals and Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The program was initiated in the late 1990s with a grant from the NCBH Developmental Technologies grant program, with additional industrial funding from Varian Medical Systems and GE Healthcare. Facilities aspects of the program include dedicated PET-CT and 3.0T MR Simulators in the Department of Radiation Oncology in the new WFUBMC Outpatient Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Basic Sciences
Physics Research
The Department of Radiation Oncology supports graduate students through the VT/WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences program. Current research thrusts include IMRT resolution studies, PET imaging threshold analysis, and shape-based problem solving.
Radiation Biology Research
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TRADONC Research Fellowship
The Department of Radiation Oncology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC is currently funded by the NCI to institute a novel, interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program in translational radiation oncology called TRADONC. The mission of TRADONC is to equip basic scientists, radiation oncologists and other cancer specialists with the background and expertise required to work efficiently and effectively together and be successful in obtaining peer-reviewed funding in translational radiation oncology, biology and physics research.