Objective: To determine the effect of increasing experience in fluoroscopically guided selective salpingography and tubal catheterization on radiation doses and screening times, thus establishing a learning curve for the procedure.
This study is primarily focused on the effect of increasing experience of a single surgeon ('learning curve') in the laparoscopic staging of women with early ovarian cancer.
PURPOSE: To assess the impact of increasing experience with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) after extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM).
To assess the effect of increasing experience, of the surgeon in the laparoscopic staging procedure, the patients were arranged in chronological order based on the date of their staging surgery.
We assessed the effect of increasing experience of a single surgeon (learning curve) in the laparoscopic staging procedure for women with early ovarian cancer and compared the results with the literature.
This finding is still the same after over 10 years of increasing experience and more standardised treatment.
A similar effect of increasing experience has previously been reported to be associated with diagnostic performance of lameness in cattle [ 15].
Other improvements in tactile 3D shape perception as a result of increasing experience have been obtained in past investigations (see Norman, Clayton, Norman, & Crabtree, 2008).
For those laboratories that continued to use CISH, the test-repeat rates also decreased over the reporting period, reflecting the improvements in testing proficiency as a result of increasing experience.
We expected to find a reduction of advanced cancers in our screened population over time, as a result of increasing experience of the screening radiologists, continuous quality assurance, introduction of additional film reading by technologists and the increased use of 2-view mammography at subsequent screening mammography [ 16, 24].
