Radiation Therapy in a Time of Disaster

What constitutes a disaster? The United Nations defines it as "a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society [exceeding its ability] to cope" and requiring assistance from external sources, perhaps national or international (1). These bleak features—precipitous social disruption and conditions of extreme dependency and need—separate the vastness and isolation of "disaster" from other relief aid terminologies, such as "hazard," "risk," "emergency," or "epidemic," which are more anticipatory, classificatory, or managerial in nature.

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