Medical Errors In Radiation Therapy

Errors in Radiation Therapy - National Institutes of …

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beam radiation therapy events reported in Pennsyl-vania and in the literature related to external beam radiation therapy. The most common errors reported include patients receiving the wrong dose of radia-tion, the wrong site being treated, and the wrong …

Radiation Therapy Side Effects - NCI - National Cancer …

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Radiation therapy has side effects because it not only kills or slows the growth of cancer ...

Errors in Radiation Therapy | Advisory - Pennsylvania …

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Radiation therapy - Mayo Clinic

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Jul 1, 2020

When Radiation Treatment Turns Deadly - The New York Times

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Errors in all fields of medicine can have horrendous outcomes and we need to be vigilant about preventing hospital, physician and computer errors. But patients …

Reducing data-transfer error in radiation therapy

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patient's radiation therapy. The measures he and his colleagues recommended in their new report safeguard against medical errors in a treatment that more than half of all …

Reducing data-transfer error in radiation therapy

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Ramon Alfredo Siochi—the director of medical physics at WVU—led a task group to help ensure the accuracy of data that dictates a cancer patient's radiation …

Reducing data-transfer error in radiation therapy

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Radiation therapy is used to treat a variety of cancers, including cancers of the lung, pancreas, prostate, breast, brain and bladder. Depending on a cancer's type or …

Reducing errors in radiation therapy through electronic …

https://appliedradiationoncology.com/articles/reducing-errors-in-radiation-therapy-through-electronic-safety-checklists

While reducing errors in radiation oncology should be a simple process, the reality is that it is a multistep process. 4 Treatment of a single patient requires contributions from the …

Errors in radiation oncology: a study in pathways and

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16143793/

For conventional photon treatments, we investigated errors of incorrect source-to-surface distance (SSD), energy, omitted wedge (physical, dynamic, or universal) or …