[Experiences with a clinical cancer registry for radiotherapy].
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.
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Belegabteilung für Strahlentherapie am Klinikum Konstanz. Peter_Koehler@t-online.de
D004282:Documentation; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D018787:Radiation Oncology / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012042:Registries