High conformality radiotherapy in Europe: Thirty-one centres participating in the quality assurance programme of the EORTC prostate trial 22991

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 2411-2416

  Ataman, Fatma ^a   Poortmans, Philip ^b   Davis, J Bernard ^c   Bernier, Jacques ^d   Giraud, Jean Yves ^e   Kouloulias, Vassilis E ^f   Pierart, Marianne ^a   Bolla, Michel ^e  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

^b DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Department of Radiotherapy   (Switzerland)

^e GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; EORTC; Prostate cancer; Quality assurance; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EUROPE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 7044252844     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2004.07.019     Document Type: Article

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