Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018
Broadening RT band width
• Physical – dose distributions - individualising treatment
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IMRT
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IGRT
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Adaptive RT
➢ Imaging including for target volume delineation ➢ Proton beam therapy – PBT
• Biological strategies
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Fractionation
➢ Exploiting individual variation in normal tissue toxicity ➢ Drugs – sensitise tumours & protect normal tissues ➢ Immune response modifiers
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Synergy from conventional chemotherapy
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