Background And Objective: Delivering radiotherapy to the bladder is challenging as it is a mobile, deformable structure. Dose-escalated adaptive image-guided radiotherapy could improve outcomes. RAIDER aimed to demonstrate the safety of such a schedule.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSemin Radiat Oncol
October 2024
The implementation and early adoption of online adaptive radiotherapy (oART) has required the presence of clinicians, physicists and radiation therapists (RTT) at the treatment console. The impact on each of them is unique to their profession and must be considered for safe and efficient implementation. In the short term future, widespread adoption will depend on the development of innovative workflows, and rethinking of traditional roles and responsibilities may be required.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Owing to substantial interfraction motion in cervical cancer, plan-of-the-day (PotD) adaptive radiation therapy may be of benefit to patients. Implementation is limited by uncertainty over how to generate the planning target volumes (PTVs). We compared published methods on our own patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys
January 2025