2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2014.06.012
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Radiotherapy infrastructure and human resources in Europe – Present status and its implications for 2020

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

1
26
0
2

Year Published

2015
2015
2021
2021

Publication Types

Select...
8

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 38 publications
(29 citation statements)
references
References 15 publications
1
26
0
2
Order By: Relevance
“…Recent reports from the IAEA have indicated the actual status of radiotherapy resources in Africa and more globally in LMICs. Here too, large inter-country variations were observed [4,12].…”
Section: Variability Of Available Resources Within Geographic Regionsmentioning
confidence: 82%
See 2 more Smart Citations
“…Recent reports from the IAEA have indicated the actual status of radiotherapy resources in Africa and more globally in LMICs. Here too, large inter-country variations were observed [4,12].…”
Section: Variability Of Available Resources Within Geographic Regionsmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…This fine-tuning of the needs to the assumed complexity of the treatments, hence technological capability of the equipment and related specialised personnel required, is unique for the activity-based approach used in this model. This methodology was first adopted in the report of the GTFRCC [2], yet all other previous publications estimating the needs of radiotherapy capital and/or personnel resources used more simple computations relying on an average throughput of treatment courses per year, per linac or per radiotherapy professional [5,6,10,12,30]. Seeing the quickly evolving radiotherapy landscape, in terms of treatment techniques as well as fractionation schedules, approaches such as the one presented, taking into account these variables, may provide more accurate estimates.…”
Section: Where Do We Need Additional Resources and What Are The Foresmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…This work has particularly focused on nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and occasionally Latin America (4)(5)(6)(7)(8). Surprisingly little attention, however, has been focused on our neighbor to the South, Mexico.…”
mentioning
confidence: 97%
“…For each country, specific relative frequencies of the most common cancers were taken into account as well as realistic estimates of the ranges of stages at diagnosis from population based cancer registries. Previous attempts to calculate the number of new cancer cases that would require radiotherapy have only considered a unique proportion, usually 50% of new cancer cases plus 25% retreatments, 62.5% in total [13,14], all following the recommendations previously presented in the QUARTS project [15] that was based on the initial CCORE study.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%