It’s World Cancer Day today so let’s celebrate the achievements of the UK radiotherapy community. Don’t forget to RT and add that glaring omission! @RCRadiologists @SCoRMembers @ActionRTherapy @CR_UK
Practice changing trials of hypofractionation. Yes FAST FORWARD and CHIPP I’m talking about you! https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30932-6
Roll out of
sparing radiotherapy thanks to the work of @AnnaKirby17 demonstrating voluntary breath hold to be a simple and reproducible technique to significantly reduce mean heart dose. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2013.04.021
Leadership in the research evaluating the role of new radiotherapy technologies: MR Linac and upcoming RCTs of proton therapy @royalmarsden @TheChristieNHS
The NHS Commissioning through Evaluation (CtE) programme delivered the largest published series of real world data demonstrating the benefits of SABR in selected patients with metachronous oligo metastatic disease. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30537-4
Delivery of the next generation of trials in oligometastatic and oligoprogressive disease. HALT, TRAP, SARON, ABC07, CORE. I could go on... @alison_tree @fifimcdrmh
Less is more in breast radiotherapy. IMPORT LOW showed partial breast radiotherapy is non inferior to whole breast radiotherapy in selected low risk patients. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31145-5
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