[Creation and management of a data bank in oncologic radiotherapy]

Clinical, scientific and technological development has greatly widened the scope and range of oncological radiotherapy. As for database management, favorable conditions come from new available hardware and software facilities and from well-consolidated and universally accepted classifications. The authors' aim was to create and to verify an original database management system for oncological radiotherapy, proved with internationally accepted classifications and directly interfaced to a new package for clinical and epidemiological statistics. An ordinary personal computer was used and a 802-subject statistics was analyzed relative to 1987-1988 series from the Istituto del Radio "O. Alberti", General Hospital and University - Radiotherapy Department, Brescia, Italy. The system seems to be suitable for routine use as well as for research, with good potentials for multicentric use.