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Radiation Oncology • Palliation • Neuro-Oncology • Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy • Stereotactic Radiosurgery
What is the biggest mistake people make when starting a linac SRS program?
Any advice on how to safely incorporate it into our practice?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
We teach a course on SBRT and Radiosurgery so I get to talk to many people starting SBRT and radiosurgery programs. I will offer one common programmatic error and highlight some common treatment planning errors.
Although some will disagree, a common programmatic error is thinking that you can...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Get ready for a lot of IT headaches. Not really a mistake but I have found that LINAC based SRS requires a lot of different systems and programs to communicate which could become problematic in a network infrastructure in which you do not have the blessing or understanding of the IT gods that ...