A standardised workflow to manage the complexity of reirradiation and radiotherapy retreatments in clinical practice

2025/09/02 by Day, Madalyne, Willmann, Jonas, Balermpas, Panagiotis +10
Physics and Astronomy · Medicine · #Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques #Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy #Effects of Radiation Exposure

paper · doi:10.5167/uzh-280587

Abstract

As cancer patients survive longer, the number of radiotherapy retreatments is steadily increasing, requiring laborious review of previous treatments, decisions regarding image registration, dose accumulation and assessment of such composite dose distributions. This work presents the development, and implementation of a standardised dedicated workflow for reirradiation (reRT) and radiotherapy retreatment based on the EORTC/ESTRO consensus on reRT.

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