Analysis of radiation therapy quality assurance in NRG Oncology RTOG 0848

CONCLUSION: One-third of patients required resubmission to meet protocol compliance criteria, demonstrating the continued need for expending resources on real-time, pretreatment QA in trials evaluating the use of radiotherapy, particularly for pancreas cancer. Rigorous QA is critically important for clinical trials involving RT to ensure that the true impact of RT is assessed. Moreover, RT QA serves as an educational process through providing feedback from specialists to practicing radiation oncologists on best practices.PMID:37598723 | DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.08.014

Source: Health Physics - August 20, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: Leila T Tchelebi Kathryn A Winter Ross A Abrams Howard P Safran William F Regine Susan McNulty Abraham Wu Kevin L Du Samantha A Seaward Shelly X Bian Raid Aljumaily Anand Shivnani Timothy D Moore Todd S Crocenzi Thomas A DiPetrillo Adam R Kuykendal Christ Source Type: research