Cancer Care Services Radiation Oncology
Overview
Radiation Oncology at RBWH is committed to excellence in cancer treatment.
Our Radiation Oncology Team includes radiation oncologists, radiation therapists, medical physicists and nursing. We provide patient care in a multidisciplinary team environment, working closely with other oncology specialties including allied health, pathologist, radiologist and surgeons.
Radiation Oncology Clinics are also provided at The Prince Charles Hospital, Redcliffe Hospital, Caboolture Hospital and the North Lakes Health Precinct.
Research
The culture of inter-disciplinary collaboration and advancing technology in research remains strong for radiation oncology. Regular Research Core Group meetings help guide the interests and co-ordinate medical, radiation therapist, physics and nursing streams. The aim and focus of the Radiation Oncology Research group is to promote, support and drive innovation, promote quality initiatives and ensure quality improvement projects deliver evidence-based practice, to ensure safe treatment delivery.
Physics and radiation therapy lead most of the investigator-initiated technical studies, with the supervision of higher degrees. Our department collaborates with several national and international trial groups, including the Tran-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group, Australian Lung Trial Group, Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate trials group.
As new and emerging technologies are rapidly being assimilated into daily practice, the focus of research outcomes is to implement new technology in a scientific manner. Quality assurance and research into new technology is important to ensure precision radiotherapy is delivered in a safe, efficient and cost-effective manner. Our department has expanded surface guided radiotherapy, implemented quality-assured inspiration breath-hold technique and has expanded deformable registration for the planning and dosimetry review situations.
The radiation oncology team has been successful in securing grants to proceed with several studies, and in utilising grants obtained though the Herston Biofabrication Institute to implement radiation oncology based projects utilising 3-D printing in a research framework. Radiation Oncology was instrumental in developing a research trials database to record research activity. This database has revolutionised the generation of research reports, facilitates centralised storage of data and has been expanded to include all sections of Cancer Care
Research teams
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