Sentence examples for radiotherapy teams from inspiring English sources

The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of a 38-h communication skills training program designed for multidisciplinary radiotherapy teams.

Although both RT and surgery were available only in 2 of 5 hospitals, surgery alone in 1 hospital, and RT alone in 2 hospitals, a multidisciplinary approach was available for all patients by internet transfer of MRI and discussion between surgical and radiotherapy teams in different hospitals.

"A few years ago, we had computers that would take overnight to actually come up with a good treatment plan," said Dr. David Pearson, a medical physicist who works with Dr. Feldmeier's radiotherapy team at the University of Toledo.

In March 2007, at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic in upstate New York, a 31-year-old vaginal cancer patient was overradiated by more than 80 percent by an inexperienced radiotherapy team, putting her at risk for a fistula formation between the rectum and vagina.

Optimizing communication between radiotherapy team members and patients and between colleagues requires training.

All institutions documented their techniques for axillary irradiation on a dummy run that was evaluated by the radiotherapy quality assurance team before their participation was allowed.

Additional details about the presence of multidisciplinary teams, chemotherapy and radiotherapy services in specific hospitals since 1996 will be obtained through relevant publications [ 16] and discussions with oncology clinicians and other health professionals.

It is probably preferable to optimize the activity rather than perform several treatments in succession such as in fractionated external beam radiotherapy as proposed by several other teams [ 18].

Rectal cancer patients in particular should be more commonly treated at specialist cancer centres 5 7 or at least be referred to a multidisciplinary team for consideration for radiotherapy even if they are not in a radiotherapy centre.

Current clinical therapies for breast cancer are offered on an individual patient basis via a multidisciplinary team and comprise surgery, radiotherapy and drug therapies targeting oncogenic processes.

45 46 Clinical psychologists from the research team will attend the radiotherapy department dietetic clinics to 'shadow' dietitians for 1 day following both the 2-day training workshop and the booster training session (2 months after initial training).