This house believes that dose accumulation will never provide a clinical benefit
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USA;
Lena Nenoff,
Germany
In fractionated radiotherapy, the dose delivered each day varies between treatment sessions.
In current clinical practice each fraction is evaluated separately to allow for the evaluation of dosimetric changes of even the necessary adaptations to the treatment plan. Dose accumulation enables tracking of the total dose throughout the treatment. However, due to large and poorly quantified uncertainties, interpreting accumulated doses remains challenging and is currently limited in clinical practice. This debate will explore whether dose accumulation could provide a clinical benefit in future radiotherapy.
Debate
Physics