M N Gaze, N Smeulders, R Ackwerh, C Allen, N Bal, M Boutros, A Cho, G Eminowicz, E Gill, M W Fittall, P D Humphries, P Lim, I Mushtaq, T Nguyen, C Peet, D Pendse, S Polhill, H Rees, G Sands, A Shankar, O Slater, T Sullivan, P J Hoskin
AIMS: Most children requiring radiotherapy receive external beam treatment and few have tumours suitable for brachytherapy. No paediatric radiotherapy centre will treat enough patients from its own normal catchment population for expertise in brachytherapy to be developed and sustained. Following discussion and agreement in the national paediatric radiotherapy group, a service for paediatric brachytherapy in the UK has been developed. We report the process that has evolved over more than 10 years, with survival and functional outcome results...
April 2023: Clinical Oncology: a Journal of the Royal College of Radiologists