JAPANESE STRUCTURE SURVEY OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY IN 2007(FIRST REPORT)

• TESHIMA Teruki

  Department of Medical Physics & Engineering, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

• NUMASAKI Hodaka

  Department of Medical Physics & Engineering, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

• SHIBUYA Hitoshi

  Department of Radiology, Tokyo Dental and Medical University

• NISHIO Masamichi

  Department of Radiology,National Hospital Organization Hokkaido Cancer Center

• IKEDA Hiroshi

  Department of Radiation Oncology, Sakai Municipal Hospital

• SEKIGUCHI Kenji

  Department of Radiation Oncology, St. Luke’s International Hospital

• KAMIKONYA Norihiko

  Department of Radiology, Hyogo College of Medicine

• KOIZUMI Masahiko

  Oncology Center, Osaka University Hospital

• TAGO Masao

  Department of Radiology, Toho University Omori Medical Center

• ANDO Yutaka

  Department of Medical Informatics, Heavy Ion Medical Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences

• TSUKAMOTO Nobuhiro

  Department of Radiation Oncology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center

• TERAHARA Atsuro

  Department of Radiology, University of Tokyo Hospital

• NAKAMURA Katsumasa

  Department of Radiology, Kyushu University Hospital at Beppu

• MITSUMORI Michihide

  Department of Radiation Oncology and Image-applied Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University

• NISHIMURA Tetsuo

  Division of Radiation Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center

• HAREYAMA Masato

  Department of Radiology, Sapporo Medical University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 全国放射線治療施設の2007年定期構造調査報告(第 1 報)

Abstract

A national structure survey of radiation oncology in 2007 using questionnaires was conducted from March 2008 to January 2009 by JASTRO. The response rate was 721 out of 765 (94.2%) active radiotherapy institutes. The total number of new cancer patients and the total number of cancer patients (new+repeat) treated with radiation were estimated to be approximately 181,000 and 218,000, respectively. The numbers of linac, telecobalt, Gamma Knife®, 60Co RALS, and 192Ir RALS in actual use were 807, 15, 46, 45, and 123, respectively. The linac has a dual energy function in 539 (66.8%), 3DCRT in 555 (68.8%), and IMRT in 235 (29.1%). The numbers of JASTRO-certified radiation oncologists, full time equivalent (FTE) radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiotherapy QA personnel, radiation therapists, radiation therapy nurses, and clerks were 477, 826 FTE, 64 FTE, 106 FTE, 1,634 FTE, 494 FTE, and 329, respectively. There were significant increases in the use of 125I for prostate cancer patients by 52% and IMRT by 271% between 2005 and 2007. Geographically, there was still a significant variation in the use of radiotherapy from 0.8 new patients per 1,000 population to 1.8 (average 1.3).

Journal

• The Journal of JASTRO

  The Journal of JASTRO 21 (3), 113-125, 2009

  Japanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

Keywords

• Structure survey
• Radiotherapy facility
• Radiotherapy equipment
• Radiotherapy personnel

Details

• CRID: 1390001204330710144
• NII Article ID: 10027260349
• NII Book ID: AN10123988
• DOI: 10.11182/jastro.21.113
• ISSN: 18819885
• ISSN: 10409564
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2010080075
• Text Lang: ja
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