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Radiation Therapy Oncology Group: radiosurgery quality assurance guidelines.

Shaw E, Kline R, Gillin M, Souhami L, Hirschfeld A, Dinapoli R, Martin L.

Division of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

A multidisciplinary Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) task force has developed quality assurance guidelines for radiosurgery. The purpose of the guidelines are fourfold: (1) To ensure that participating institutions have the proper equipment and appropriate technique(s) to administer radiosurgery; (2) to outline a standard data set for each treated patient to assess protocol compliance; (3) to define minor and major deviations in protocol treatment; and (4) to set forth clinical data necessary to determine treatment efficacy, including failure patterns, and treatment toxicity. These guidelines are being implemented into active and developing radiosurgery protocols.

PMID: 8262852 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]