Infrastructures, treatment modalities, and workload of radiation oncology departments in Spain with special attention to prostate cancer
| Autor: | Almudena Zapatero, M.A. Cabeza, Asunción Hervás, A. Guerrero, G. Nagore, Xavier Maldonado, I. Castillo, J. López Torrecilla, A. Mairiño, Felipe A. Calvo, C. Ferrer, A. Gómez Caamaño, E. Ferrer, Pilar Samper, Amalia Palacios, G. Sancho, B. Ludeña Martínez, J. C. Martínez Cedres, M. Mira, Simón Pérez, Susana Rodríguez, J. L. Mengual, Pedro C. Lara, E. del Cerro Peñalver, Ismael Herruzo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Brachytherapy Hospital Departments Workload Prostate cancer Surveys and Questionnaires Radiation oncology Medicine Humans Medical physics Image-guided radiation therapy Infrastructure Radiotherapy business.industry Prostatic Neoplasms General Medicine medicine.disease humanities Surgery Radiation therapy Cross-Sectional Studies Treatment Outcome Oncology Treatment modality Spain Radiation Oncology business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical & Translational Oncology r-IIB SANT PAU. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau instname |
| ISSN: | 1699-048X |
| Popis: | The purpose of the study was to describe infrastructures, treatment modalities, and workload in radiation oncology (RO) in Spain, referred particularly to prostate cancer (PC). An epidemiologic, cross-sectional study was performed during 2008-2009. A study-specific questionnaire was sent to the 108 RO-registered departments. One hundred and two departments answered the survey, and six were contacted by telephone. Centers operated 236 treatment units: 23 (9.7 %) cobalt machines, 37 (15.7 %) mono-energetic linear accelerators, and 176 (74.6 %) multi-energy linear accelerators. Sixty-one (56.4 %) and 33 (30.5 %) departments, respectively, reported intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and image-guided RT (IGRT) capabilities; three-dimensional-conformal RT was used in 75.8 % of patients. Virtual simulators were present in 95 departments (88.0 %), 35 use conventional simulators. Fifty-one departments (47.2 %) have brachytherapy units, 38 (35.2 %) perform prostatic implants. Departments saw a mean of 24.9 new patients/week; the number of patients treated annually was 102,054, corresponding to 88.4 % of patients with a RT indication. In 56.5 % of the hospitals, multidisciplinary teams were available to treat PC. Results provide an accurate picture of current situation of RO in Spain, showing a trend toward the progressive introduction of new technologies (IMRT, IGRT, brachytherapy). |
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