ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

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RTT - Patient experience and quality of life

ESTRO 2024

Conclusion:

The information sought by people living with and beyond cancer is not readily available prior to treatment. Radiotherapy information and support should feature earlier on in the pathway helping to prepare people appropriately. Social media allows people to interact with healthcare professionals in a way that empowers them with accurate knowledge and information. What information we perceive to be important to people going through cancer treatment is not always accurate and utilising social media appropriately, we may be better able to engage with the patient voice and determine how we can better prepare and support people along the cancer pathway. Social media provides a way for patients to gain information and support from specialist healthcare professionals that they may only have access to for a short period of their cancer pathway.

Keywords: podcast, social media, radiotherapy

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Digital Poster

Acute side-effects from proton beam therapy for head & neck cancer: A 1-year, single centre review

Kayleigh T Lett-Logue 1 , Rita Simões 1,2,3 , Dawn Carnell 4 , Anna C Thompson 4 , Ruheena L Mendes 4 , Sabina Khan 5

1 UCLH, Proton Beam Therapy and Radiotherapy, London, United Kingdom. 2 RTTQA, Mount Vernon Hospital, London, United Kingdom. 3 Institute of Cancer Research, Research, London, United Kingdom. 4 UCLH, Oncology Directorate, London, United Kingdom. 5 UCLH, Proton Beam Therapy, London, United Kingdom

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