Quality control system for radiotherapy services

Abstract

In this study, we present a quality control system devoted for radiotherapy services. Cancer treatment field concerns also Chemotherapy, Surgery and Other but they didn't do the object of this work. The Cancer is an enormous and growing global public health problem. The majority of cancers are treated in the radiotherapy (or radiation oncology) services. The radiation oncology includes the diagnostic imaging involving the safe use of ionizing radiationand nuclear medicine procedures. The strategies for treatment management and terminal cure must be established in a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach for a total cancer care program. The system taken as an example consists of a set of 6 personnel computers (PC's), 3 linear accelerators (VARIAN model), 2 scanner simulators (SIEMENS and General Electric). Currently the problem of the quality services and the accidents in radiotherapy services in the world is not solved. This system is used in order to improve the quality of services and to increase the medical care. Its main purpose is to avoid mistake's treatment which could kill patients. Accidents occur till now even in developed countries (USA, France, England, etc). This project is in its first step. Some results are obtained and described in this study. The PC's are put in a network and five of them are used to control the check-list of the apparatus (linear accelerators and scanner simulators). One PC is used as a data server in order to store all data of the system (the check-list of the devices, the temperature and the moisture data, physicians and patients' management).