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