The Factors for Success and Lack of Success in the Breast Cancer Patient Care Pathway: A Qualitative Study From the Health Care Staff Perspective.

Objective: To produce information about factors related to successful and unsuccessful breast cancer care pathways from the health care staff perspective.

Materials And Methods: An electronic qualitative survey was used to collect data simultaneously from hospitals located in four different countries, focusing on four professional groups: diagnostic radiographers; radiation therapists; breast cancer nurses; and biomedical laboratory scientists (n = 23). The hospitals participating in the study treat breast cancer patients and research permits were applied from all of them.

Case report: The Estonian experience of the IAEA/ESTRO "Train the Trainers" project.

In Estonia, the delivery of radiotherapy historically was performed by nurses who had worked in the radiotherapy department or who had taken a 2 week course in radiotherapy. The minimum requirement currently for working as a radiation therapist (RTT) is a BSc. Radiography.