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To the Editor: The timely Editorial in the Journal by Ford and Terezakis (1) serves to remind us all that the outcomes for radiotherapy can only be maintained by careful adherence to treatment protocols, quality assurance, and quality control. This was emphasized in a 2008 World Health Organization document Radiotherapy Risk Profile summarized by Shafiq et al. (2). However, the ''back-of-the-envelope'' estimate in the Editorial has problems with both the numerator and the denominator used to calculate the risk involved. The numerator only records the incidents ''serious enough to be reported''; however, the World Health Organization document has clearly shown that errors in the delivery of radiotherapy can occur anywhere from making a decision to treat by incorrectly interpreting the histopathologic findings to the actual radiation delivery and that many errors are possible in between, owing to the multiple functions performed by the many professionals involved in the process of treatment delivery. Likewise, the denominator was based only on 50% of new cancer patients being treated, although 25% of these patients will receive a second course or more courses of radiotherapy-making t

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Author

Eric C. Ford; Stephanie Terezakis

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0360-3016)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)