Do not define a treatment program that includes radiation therapy without the involvement of the radiation oncologist from the beginning (usually, at time of the tumour first diagnosis) in the definition of the program.
Modern oncology is represented by surgery, radiation therapy and systemic therapies (hormone therapy, chemotherapy, target therapy, immunotherapy). Radiation oncologists are able to manage radiations when used as elective treatment and/or together with systemic...
Do not recommend the use of “special” techniques or radiation therapy machines without having previously obtained the recommendation by a radiation oncologist.
Actually, the high level of technologies widely used by the radiation oncologist’ community represents a very important opportunity and benefit for oncological patients because it permits to achieve interesting results in selected subgroups. These results are robust...
Don’t treat with radioiodine low-risk differentiated thyroid carcinomas (namely “microcarcinomas” or carcinomas <1 cm, in the absence of unfavorable prognostic factors), after total thyroidectomy
Both the literature and the guidelines of the American Thyroid Association and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) agree on this position. However, established clinical practice does not correspond to this “official” position, and, in many cases,...
Don’t perform lymphoscintigraphy and radioguided biopsy of the sentinel node in patients affected by cutaneous melanoma thinner than 0.75 mm, with no ulceration and mitotic rate <1/mm2
The treatment of choice for these patients is adequate surgical removal alone of the primitive tumour. Given the optimal prognosis (97% survival at 10 years), radioguided biopsy of the sentinel node would imply useless exposure to ionizing radiations, as well as...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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