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[Experiences with a clinical cancer registry for radiotherapy]
1Belegabteilung für Strahlentherapie am Klinikum Konstanz. Peter_Koehler@t-online.de
Background:
A clinical cancer registry is required to assure result quality in radiation oncology. A simpler system could help small radiotherapy departments to survey their therapy results, as long as there is no connection to a central institution established.
Methods:
Our clinical cancer registry RADOC was designed for easy handling on a single working place with standard Windows PC.
Results:
Without additional costs, we store about 550 treatment courses each year and follow-up data. Several times a year the program provides basic analysis of these data for our internal quality assurance. As an example, the results on breast cancer are shown.
Conclusions:
Our department's internal therapy registry enables us to survey continuously important therapy results without additional costs, and thereby adds to our quality assurance process. On the other hand, only a centralized registry can provide complete data.