ESTRO meets Asia 2024 - Abstract Book

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Interdisciplinary – Education in radiation oncology

ESTRO meets Asia 2024

Results:

from January 2020 to june 2023, 105 patients aged from 32 to 69 years old were treated by BTH. 85 % for breast cancer indications and 10% for lung cancer and 5 % for liver cancer. Ninety four % of our patients have achieved the deep inspiration, only 6 out of the 105 patients in this study could not achieve the BHT. The PEM did not impact the rate of success of the technique. This rate of success is considered as very high and is most likely due to long time consuming sessions of education and training done by radiographers prior to the ct simulation. However, the PEM hard copy and video format did substantially impact the duration of the education and training session. The mean duration of the education session before the use of any PEM was of 80 min, after hard copy leaflet use it shortened to 60 minutes and after video and leaflet hard copy PEM implementation its duration was reduced to 45 minutes. Both the young patients group aged less than 45 years old and the group of the eldest patients aged 60 and more were the most satisfied by the video format. The young patients find learning easier on video contents and prefer videos to leaflets. The elder group preferred the video format as it was more detailed. All the patients agreed that the video PEM format was closer to the reality of the treatment and allowed to reduce their anxiety.

Conclusion:

Implementing hard copy PEM and video format of PEM for BTH in radiotherapy reduced patient anxiety and allowed to shorten the education and training sessions done by radiographers prior to the ct simulation acquisition. The PEM did not impact the failure rate of the BTH as this rate was very low in our department. This was most likely due to very long sessions of education done by the Radiographers. Both elderly and young patients prefer video formats for PEM. Video format is thought to be more realistic and able to further reduce anxiety prior to ct simulation for BTH when compared to hard copy PEM.

Keywords: patient-education breathhold technique

References:

1.Chatterjee, Arunangsu, Gary Strong, Edward Meinert, Madison Milne-Ives, Matthew Halkes, and Emma Wyatt Haines. "The use of video for patient information and education: A scoping review of the variability and effectiveness of interventions." Patient Education and Counseling 104, no. 9 (2021): 2189-2199

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Yilan Liu 1 , Caroline Carlson 2 , Ben Prajogi 3 , Anuja Jhingran 4 , Emma Holliday 4 , Jonathan Paly 5 , Mac Longo 6 , Lindsay Puckett 6 , Nicholas Zaorsky 7 , Serguei A Castaneda 8 , Benjamin Li 1,9 1 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. 2 School of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA. 3 Department of Radiation Oncology, RSUPN Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo, Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia. 4 Department of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. 5 Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. 6 Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. 7 Department of Radiation Oncology,