TRUFU: Therapeutic radiographer undertaking follow up for prostate cancer patients

Advanced practice roles of therapeutic radiographers/radiation therapists: A systematic literature review

“…Most of the studies are non-experimental descriptive research designs, with only one RCT 80 and two clinical studies. 78,87 Some studies resulted from audits (11%) and service evaluations (9%). Four studies 51,66,72,82 are SLR (narrative and scoping reviews were excluded).…”

Images and images: Current roles of therapeutic radiographers

“…9,31,35 This has been seen with review-radiographers. 20,48 MRI and other multi-modal imaging are becoming integral to the radiotherapy pathway 41,49 and TRs will need to adapt. It is identified MRI training requires the support of diagnostic radiographers and departments.…”

“…Such as soft-tissue image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), 14,15,16 stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) 17 as well as non-treatment delivery activities such as site-specialist 18,19 and treatment-review TRs. 2,20,21 Many of these roles fall under advanced clinical practice (ACP), 'a level of practice characterized by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making', 22 which also could be applied to on-line adaptive Magnetic Resonance Image-guided radiotherapy (MRIgRT). The new tasks and skills of TRs daily acquiring MRIs, re-contouring, and re-planning to compensate for intra-and inter-fraction anatomical changes, using motion management techniques and/or biological targeting, and assessing the quality of a plan for a fraction within a course of radiotherapy treatment all offers the potential for ACP.…”