SBRT 2016

Equipoise

 What about the principle of equipoise?  Clinical equipoise means that there is genuine uncertainty in the expert medical community over whether a treatment will be beneficial. This applies also for off-label treatments performed before or during their required clinical trials.

Robustness recipe vs. margin recipe

van der Voort S, van de Water S, Perkó Z, Heijmen B, Lathouwers D, Hoogeman M. Robustness Recipes for Minimax Robust Optimization in Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients. IJROBP 2016 May 1;95(1):163-70.