Health Research with Data in a Time of Privacy: Which Information do Patients Want?

When hospitals ask broad consent for the secondary use of patient data for scientific research, it is unknown for which studies the data will be used. We investigated what patients at a cancer hospital consider to be an adequate level and most suitable method of information provision using questionnaires (n = 71) and interviews (n = 24). A part of the respondents indicated that they would feel sufficiently informed by either being notified about potential further use, or by receiving a general brochure before being asked for consent.

Take Action Protocol: A radiation therapist led approach to act on anatomical changes seen on CBCT.

Until recently Traffic Light Protocols (TLP) have been developed to recognize and react to Anatomical Changes (ACs) seen on Cone Beam Computer Tomography (CBCT) scans for the most common treatment sites. This involves alerting the Radiation Oncologist (RO), handing over findings, and RO providing the final decision, making it quite labour-intensive for the ROs as well as the Radiation Therapists (RTTs). A new approach was developed to act on ACs: the Take Action Protocol (TAP).

An anomaly detector as a clinical decision support system for parotid gland delineations.

Unlabelled: . Auto-contouring (AC) is rapidly becoming standard practice for OAR contouring. However, in clinical practice, clinicians still need to manually check and correct contours.

Factors predicting timely implementation of radiotherapy innovations: the first model.

Objective: The improvement of radiotherapy depends largely on the implementation of innovations, of which effectivity varies widely. The aim of this study is to develop a prediction model for successful innovation implementation in radiotherapy to improve effective management of innovation projects.

Methods: A literature review was performed to identify success factors for innovation implementation.

Feasibility and accuracy of quantitative imaging on a 1.5 T MR-linear accelerator.

Purpose: Systems for magnetic resonance (MR-) guided radiotherapy enable daily MR imaging of cancer patients during treatment, which is of interest for treatment response monitoring and biomarker discovery using quantitative MRI (qMRI). Here, the performance of a 1.5 T MR-linac regarding qMRI was assessed on phantoms.

Substantial Volume Changes and Plan Adaptations During Preoperative Radiation Therapy in Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma Patients.

Purpose: Many authors suggest that extremity soft tissue sarcomas (ESTS) do not change significantly in size during preoperative radiation therapy (RT). This cone beam computed tomography study investigates the justification to deliver the entire course with 1 initial RT plan by observing anatomic changes during RT.

Methods And Materials: Between 2015 and 2017, 99 patients with ESTS were treated with either curative (n = 80) or palliative intent (n = 19) with a regimen of at least 6 fractions.