Pretreatment central quality control for craniospinal irradiation in non-metastatic medulloblastoma : First experiences of the German radiotherapy quality control panel in the SIOP PNET5 MB trial.
Stefan DietzschAnnett BraesigkClemens SeidelJulia RemmeleRalf KitzingTina SchlenderMartin MynarekDirk GeismarKarolina JablonskaRudolf SchwarzMontserrat PazosMarc WalserSilke FrickKristin GurtnerChristiane MatuschekSemi Ben HarrabiAlbrecht GlückVictor LewitzkiKarin DieckmannMartin BeneschNicolas U GerberStefan RutkowskiBeate TimmermannRolf-Dieter KortmannPublished in: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] (2020)
This prospective pretreatment individual case review study revealed a high rate of deviations and emphasizes the strong need of pretreatment RT-QC in clinical trials for medulloblastoma. Furthermore, the experiences point out the necessity of new RT-QC criteria for high-precision CSI techniques.