Development, implementation, and associated challenges of a new HDR brachytherapy program

Developing any new radiation oncology program requires planning and analysis of the current state of the facility and its capacity to take on another program. Staff must consider a large number of factors to establish a feasible, safe, and sustainable program. We present a simple and generic outline...

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Autores principales: Scanderbeg, Daniel J., Yashar, Catheryn, Ouhib, Zoubir, Jhingran, Anuja, Einck, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Brachytherapy Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32950407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brachy.2020.08.018
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author Scanderbeg, Daniel J.
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description Developing any new radiation oncology program requires planning and analysis of the current state of the facility and its capacity to take on another program. Staff must consider a large number of factors to establish a feasible, safe, and sustainable program. We present a simple and generic outline that lays out the process for developing and implementing a new HDR brachytherapy program in any setting, but with particular emphasis on challenges associated with starting the program in a limited resource setting. The sections include feasibility of a program, starting cases, machine and equipment selection, and quality and safety.
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spelling pubmed-74952652020-09-17 Development, implementation, and associated challenges of a new HDR brachytherapy program Scanderbeg, Daniel J. Yashar, Catheryn Ouhib, Zoubir Jhingran, Anuja Einck, John Brachytherapy Article Developing any new radiation oncology program requires planning and analysis of the current state of the facility and its capacity to take on another program. Staff must consider a large number of factors to establish a feasible, safe, and sustainable program. We present a simple and generic outline that lays out the process for developing and implementing a new HDR brachytherapy program in any setting, but with particular emphasis on challenges associated with starting the program in a limited resource setting. The sections include feasibility of a program, starting cases, machine and equipment selection, and quality and safety. American Brachytherapy Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020 2020-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7495265/ /pubmed/32950407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brachy.2020.08.018 Text en © 2020 American Brachytherapy Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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