Foi recentemente tornado público o Manual de Boas Práticas em Radioterapia. Este manual sistematiza num único documento os critérios de definição da qualidade em Radioterapia de forma a assegurar a optimização deste tratamento e, simultaneamente, um maior rigor na protecção radiológica quer do doente quer dos profissionais envolvidos na terapêutica com radiações.

Extracto de artigo do site MedicalPhysics.web

Incorporating real-time image guidance into radiotherapy would ramp tumour targeting accuracy, enabling better avoidance of critical structures and reducing side effects. Such guidance will be of particular benefit if a non-ionizing imaging technique such as MRI is employed. As such, a research team at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands is working to integrate a linear accelerator with an MR scanner. Now the Utrecht team has demonstrated proof-of-concept operation of their system (Phys. Med. Biol. 54 N229).

About a trial reported by Patchell et al.

A total of 101 patients with spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer were randomized to undergo either surgery followed by adjuvant radiation therapy (n = 50) or radiation therapy alone (n = 51). Radiotherapy for both groups consisted of 10 fractions of 300 cGy each. The primary endpoint was the ability to walk.