Application Detail

Status

Closed

Description of Medical Service

Radiation therapy is a highly technical and complex procedure requiring accuracy of delivering the radiation beam to the target tumour of the patient. Each patient has an individual program which uses the information from planning tests to pinpoint the target tumour, and calculate a schedule that best targets the cancer while avoiding the normal body as much as possible. When IMRT is used, the planning calculations optimise each tiny part of the radiation beam(s) to produce a dose distribution that can be shaped very closely to the target tumour and reduce the dose to surrounding normal tissues. This enables tumoricidal doses to be given while keeping normal tissue doses as low as possible.

Description of Medical Condition

Cancer is a range of diseases where abnormal cells grow rapidly and spread uncontrolled throughout the body. These cancerous cells can invade and destroy surrounding tissue and spread (metastasise) to distant parts of the body.

Reason for Application

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Medical Service Type

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Previous Application Number

Not Applicable

Associated Documentation

Application Form

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PICO Confirmation

13 - 14 December 2012
Final Decision Analytic Protocol (DAP) (PDF 210 KB)
Final Decision Analytic Protocol (DAP) (Word 175 KB)

Assessment Report

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Public Summary Document

Public Summary Document (PDF 96 KB)
Public Summary Document (Word 128 KB)

Consumer Friendly Public Summary Document (PSD)

Consumer Friendly PSD (PDF 238 KB)
Consumer Friendly PSD (Word 16 KB)

Consumer Friendly PSDs - The Basics

The Basics (PDF 190 KB)
The Basics (Word 29 KB)

Meetings for this Application

PASC

16 to 17 August 2012
13 to 14 December 2012

ESC

12 to 13 June 2014
8 to 10 October 2014

MSAC

26 to 28 November 2014
1 to 2 April 2015