Only few months ago, on November 7th 2017, we celebrated Marie Sklodowska Curie's
150th birthday. She was a Polish chemist-physicist, a brilliant scientist, the first woman ever …

Radiation therapy (RT) is an essential treatment modality for cancer care and cure. Over the
years, radiation treatments have become more complex and more computerized leading to …

The French sanitary and regulatory context in which radiotherapy centres are comprised is
evolving. Risk and quality management systems are currently adapting to these evolutions …

Quality assurance in radiotherapy affects the radiotherapy department organization,
management, patient follow-up, distribution of responsibilities, training and equipment …

The stepwise process of the EORTC Quality Assurance Programme in Radiotherapy is
described in function of two main criteria: the targets of the quality control procedures …

A high standard of radiotherapeutic practice must be sought in all phases of management of
a patient with malignant disease. Radiation therapy must be appropriately chosen and …

Introduction: In radiotherapy, a team of highly specialised professionals co-operate in
planning and delivery of treatment and are responsible for the effectiveness and safety of the …

These are exciting times in radiotherapy. The challenge repeatedly presented to the
radiotherapy team by each new patient is one of treatment optimisation ie, of delivering high …

The Department of Nuclear Medicine and the PET center at the University Hospital
Groningen obtained their first ISO-9001 certification in the year 2000, actually also a first for …

As radiotherapy practice and processes become more complex, the need to assure quality
control becomes ever greater. At present, no international consensus exists with regards to …