RADIATION-THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUP - RADIOSURGERY QUALITY ASSURANCE GUIDELINES

A multidisciplinery Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) task force has developed quality assurance guidelines for radiosurgery. The purp ose of the guidelines are fourfold: (1) To ensure that participating i nstitutions have the proper equipment and appropriate technique(s) to administer radiosurgery; (2) to outline a standard data set for each t reated patient to assess protocol compliance; (3) to define minor and major deviations in protocol treatment; and (4) to set forth clinical data necessary to determine treatment efficacy, including failure patt erns, and treatment toxicity. These guidelines are being implemented i nto active and developing radiosurgery protocols.