Consent Consensus – Site-specific Consent for Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer, Where Are We?

Purpose: As doctors we are required to take consent for radiotherapy; we typically take written consent [1]. We must tell a patient if a treatment might result in a serious adverse outcome, even if the likelihood is very small [2]. As many cancer centres move towards tumour site-specific consent forms for prostate radiotherapy we wanted to ascertain if there was consensus.

Source: Clinical Oncology - March 31, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: E. Kenney-Herbert, K. Tipples Source Type: research