Physics Bucharest 2017

Future role of planners in treatment planning?

 Planners remain more important than ever!  NOT for routine planning; prostate, lung, breast, …  Expert planners with deep understanding remain crucial: • Configuration AUTO-planning: expertise and good manual planning (Sub-optimal configuration  systematic dose “error” for patient group) • New treatment protocol  new configuration • Software updates: new possibilities to improve plans  update configuration • Software updates: undesirable changes in software • Manual planning remains essential, e.g. 5-10% of patients • Preserve expertise and skills • QA and improvement of AUTO-planning configurations • More time for manual planning of “unique”, compex cases (re-irradiation, ….)