Which role is primarily responsible for administering treatments and maintaining records in a radiotherapy setting?

• A. Nurse
• B. Radiation Therapist
• C. Radiation Oncologist
• D. Medical Physicist

Answer: (B)

The key idea is who handles delivering the daily radiation and keeping the treatment records. The Radiation Therapist is the one who does both: they operate the linear accelerator to deliver the prescribed dose, carefully position and immobilize the patient, verify setup with imaging, and document each treatment session in the patient chart or treatment management system. This role directly translates the treatment plan into daily care, ensuring the right dose is given to the right location and that accurate records are kept for dose, fractionation, machine settings, and any patient responses. The radiation oncologist creates and supervises the treatment plan, the medical physicist handles dosimetry and equipment calibration/quality assurance, and nurses provide general patient care, not the daily administration and detailed charting of radiotherapy treatments.