title: Quality control follow-up.
abstract: In oncology and particularly in radiation therapy, the follow-up indicates the continuing and systematic clinical control of the patient after treatment. This control is aimed at the assessment of the evolution in time of three major aspects: the disease response to treatment (local control, survival), the onset of treatment-induced side-effects; the quality of life as the result of both. The quality of follow-up procedure aimed at the clinical investigations is one of the fundamental elements based on which the efficacy of the used diagnostic and therapeutic procedure is proven.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Oncologia, Università di Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cionini
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000592:standards*