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Pros:
- Same approach used in the past to send patients abroad
- Usually justified with the need of being based on “evidence”
- Safe and predictable from the budget perspective.
Pros and cons of this patient selection
approach
Cons:
- It is more or less the opposite of “personalized medicine”
- Lacks a clear path for testing new indications
- It does not take advantage of a unique feature of RT, i.e.
treatment planning.