Academic Rank

Assistant Professor

Professional Qualifications

MD, Queen’s University
PhD, University of Amsterdam
FRCPC, Radiation Oncology

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Radiation Oncologist, Princess Margaret Hospital/University Health Network

Academic & Clinical Interests

• Breast cancer
• Lung cancer
• High precision radiotherapy
• Intensity modulated radiotherapy
• Inverse treatment planning and optimization
• Radiobiological modeling

Current Research Projects

• Optimal dose distributions for moving lung tumours

Selected Publications

See current publications list at PubMed.

Cho BC, Roa WHY, Robinson D, Murray B: The development of target-eye-view maps for selection of coplanar or noncoplanar beams in conformal radiotherapy treatment planning. Med Phys 26:2367-72, 1999.

Hurkmans C, Borger J, van Giersbergen A, Cho J, Mijnheer B: Implementation of a forearm support to reduce the amount of irradiated lung and heart in radiation therapy of the breast. Radiother Oncol. 61:193-6, 2001.

Hurkmans CW, Cho BC, Damen EM, Zijp LJ, Mijnheer BJ: Reduction of cardiac and lung complication probabilities after breast irradiation using conformal radiotherapy with or without intensity modulation. Radiother Oncol. 62:163-71, 2002.

Cho BC, Hurkmans CW, Damen EM, Mijnheer BJ: Intensity modulated versus non-intensity modulated radiotherapy in the treatment of the left breast and upper internal mammary lymph node chain: a comparative planning study. Radiother Oncol. 62:127-36, 2002.

Cho BC, van Herk M, Mijnheer BJ, Bartelink H: The effect of set-up uncertainties, contour changes, and tissue inhomogeneities on target dose-volume histograms. Med Phys. 29:2305-18, 2002.

Cho BC, Mijnheer BJ, Bartelink H: Determining optimal radiotherapeutic two-beam orientations for heart sparing in left-sided breast cancer patients. Med Phys. 31:111-121, 2004.

Cho BC, Schwarz M, Mijnheer BJ, Bartelink H: Simplified intensity modulated radiotherapy using predefined segments to reduce cardiac complications in left-sided breast cancer. Radiother Oncol. 70:231-241,2004.