ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

S5894

RTT - Service evaluation, quality assurance and risk management

ESTRO 2024

compared to this service evaluation. Overall treatment time also increased further for patients planned with additional treatment arcs. Further research is required in the future to definitively determine the impact of treatment complexity factors on radiotherapy treatment appointment duration.

Figure 1: A graph comparing the allocated and the mean treatment time for each participant.

Table 1: A table showing the mean time and time range recorded in relation to the different complexity factors.

Patient complexity factor

Mean time (minutes)

Males

17 (10-36)

Females

18 (10-28)

Lung cancer stage 1

16 (10-24)

Lung cancer stage 2

15 (8-18)

Lung cancer stage 3

20 (14-36)

PS 0

16 (8-24)

PS 1

18 (10-36)