Medical physicists have long had an integral role in radiotherapy. In recent decades,
medical physicists have slowly but surely stepped back from direct clinical responsibilities in …

Radiation oncology has seen considerable change since ESTRO adopted its previous
vision statement, less than 10 years ago. The Society has now formulated a new vision for …

The ACCIRAD project, commissioned by the European Commission (EC) to develop
guidelines for risk analysis of accidental and unintended exposures in external beam …

Purpose To describe the current status of implementation of European directives for risk
management in radiotherapy and to assess variability in risk management in the following …

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 …

Background Implant selection in the operating room is a manual process. This manual
process combined with complex compatibility rules and inconsistent implant labeling may …

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 …

To assess adherence to standard clinical practice for the diagnosis and treatment of patients
undergoing prostate cancer (PCa) radiotherapy in four European countries using clinical …

Purpose To perform a clinical audit to assess adherence to standard clinical practice for the
diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients undergoing radiotherapy for rectal cancer …

Purpose As there have been few reports on quantitative analysis of inter-institutional results
for independent monitor unit (MU) verification, we performed a multi-institutional study of …