Mount Vernon Cancer Centre

Development and Validation of a Tool to Measure Documented Health Care Encounter Time

Importance Time toxicity, defined as the time patients spend receiving cancer treatment and interacting with health care systems, is an emerging treatment-related burden. Existing studies typically quantify time toxicity using health care contact days, which may inadequately capt...

44 UK radiotherapy practice in volume delineation–data from the APPROACH trial (ISRCTN:1339049) radiotherapy quality assurance (RTQA) programme benchmark outlining case

Abstract Introduction Interobserver variation in radiotherapy contouring can affect protocol compliance and the robustness of clinical trial outcomes. The APPROACH (Analysis of Proton vs Photon Radiotherapy in Oligodendroglioma and Assessments of Cognitive Health) trial protocol...