Streamlining Breast Radiotherapy Pathway: from Breast PTV, Implementation of Auto-plan Breast Script (Inverse Planning IMRT) and ‘as Per Protocol Approval’ at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH)

Purpose: Breast radiotherapy represents a significant workload. At the OUH clinicians had to approve tangential fields, plans were optimised using forward plan IMRT and a final clinician approval was required before treatment. This pilot aimed to implement breast CTV [1] to facilitate inverse planning IMRT and ‘as per protocol approval’ by a senior physicist to shorten the breast radiotherapy pathway and allow patients to start radiotherapy sooner.

Source: Clinical Oncology - May 6, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: H. Jones, E. Burke, A. Gallagher, S. Padmanaban, S. Oliveros Source Type: research