Applications

1158 – Robotic image-guided stereotactic precise beam radiosurgery and radiotherapy

Find out about the service or technology in this application and the medical condition it addresses. You can also view the application documents, the deadlines for providing consultation input and the outcome of the application when the MSAC process is complete.

  • Status Complete
  • Type New application
  • Pre-PASC consultation -
  • Pre-MSAC consultation -
  • Outcome Not supported

Application details

Reason for application

New MBS item.

Service or technology in this application

Robotic image-guided stereotactic precise beam radiotherapy is a form of image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), which aims to better target and provide accurate delivery of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT)* to a tumour site – thereby reducing radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue. It utilises information collected from x-rays, computerised tomography, ultrasound or similar imaging technologies as part of the planning and delivery of a course of EBRT.

* EBRT is a cancer treatment that delivers high-energy radiation to tumor sites with the primary goal is stopping the division of tumor cells.

Type: Investigative

Medical condition this application addresses

Prostate Cancer

Patients who are newly diagnosed and who have had a biopsy to diagnose prostate cancer, and are in the ‘high risk’ stratifications suitable for radiation therapy as an adjuvant therapy with androgen deprivation therapy.

Lung Cancer

Patients with peripherally-located or centrally-located non-metastasised non-small cell lung cancer that is either T1 or T2 and N0, M0, up to 5cm maximum diameter (Stage 1 NSCLC), and who are not suitable or refuse surgery.

Meetings to consider this application

  • PASC meeting: 14 - 15 September 2011
  • ESC meeting: 11 - 12 October 2012
  • MSAC meeting: 29 - 30 December 2012
     

More information

Note: Submission based assessment – Received on 14 June 2012. Submission withheld at the request of the applicant.