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1. Service Improvements and Workload Increases: Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) Re-Audit of Curative Intent Radiotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

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Bedair, A., Williams, A., James, A., Visioli, A., Sykes, A., Mitra, A., Haridass, A., Gore, A., Mirza, A., Stilwell, C., Sherriff, D., Wingate, E., Bainbridge, H., Ariyaratne, H., Phillips, I., Sham, J., Clarke, J., Pang, J., Brady, J., Tay, J., Frew, J., Adams, J., Thippu Jayaprakash, K., Tarver, K., Harihar, L., Churn, M., Griffin, M., Osborne, M., Button, M., Panades Piza, M., Bayne, M., Kagzi, M., Sivaramalingam, M., Dorey, N., Panakis, N., Goyal, N., Hatcher, O., Fenton, P., Wells, P., Lewis, P., Jain, P., Das, P., Roy, R., Goldfinch, R., Casasola, R., Sandoughdaran, S., Treece, S., Thamakulasingam, S., Lalondrelle, S., Walter, S., Durga, T., Talbot, T., Barthakur, U., Sangha, V., Gibson, V., Owadally, W., Dubash, S., McAleese, J., and Drinkwater, K.

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2024
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5. Neutrophil–Lymphocyte Ratio and Absolute Lymphocyte Count as Prognostic Markers in Patients Treated with Curative-intent Radiotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

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Punjabi, A., Barrett, E., Cheng, A., Mulla, A., Walls, G., Johnston, D., McAleese, J., Moore, K., Hicks, J., Blyth, K., Denholm, M., Magee, L., Gilligan, D., Silverman, S., Qureshi, M., Clinch, H., Hatton, M., Philipps, L., Brown, S., O'Brien, M., McDonald, F., Faivre-Finn, C., Hiley, C., and Evison, M.

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2021
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6. Predicting the Risk of Disease Recurrence and Death Following Curative-intent Radiotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: The Development and Validation of Two Scoring Systems From a Large Multicentre UK Cohort

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Evison, M., Barrett, E., Cheng, A., Mulla, A., Walls, G., Johnston, D., McAleese, J., Moore, K., Hicks, J., Blyth, K., Denholm, M., Magee, L., Gilligan, D., Silverman, S., Hiley, C., Qureshi, M., Clinch, H., Hatton, M., Philipps, L., Brown, S., O'Brien, M., McDonald, F., and Faivre-Finn, C.

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2021
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7. Service Improvements and Workload Increases: Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) Re-Audit of Curative Intent Radiotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC).

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McAleese, J. and Drinkwater, K.

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*AUDITING, *MEDICAL protocols, *RADIOGRAPHY, *PATIENTS, *DIAGNOSTIC imaging, *QUESTIONNAIRES, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *LUNG cancer, *QUALITY assurance, *EMPLOYEES' workload, *HEALTH care rationing
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The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) audit of radical radiotherapy (RR) for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in 2013 concluded that there was under-treatment compared to international comparators and marked variability between cancer networks. Elderly patients were less likely to receive guideline recommended treatments. Access to technological developments was low. Various national and local interventions have since taken place. This study aims to re-assess national practice. Radiotherapy departments completed one questionnaire for each patient started on RR for 4 weeks in January 2023. Ninety-three percent of centres returned data on 295 patients. RR has increased 70% since 2013 but patients on average wait 20% longer to start treatment (p = 0.02). Staging investigations were often outside a desirable timeframe (79% of PET/CT scans). Advanced planning techniques are used more frequently: 4-dimensional planning increased from 33% to 90% (P < 0.001), cone beam imaging from 67% to 97% (p < 0.001) and colleague led peer review increased from 41% to 73% (P < 0.001). There have been significant improvements in care. There has been a considerable increase in clinical oncology workload with evidence of stress on the system that requires additional resourcing. • 70% increase in radical NSCLC radiotherapy. • Technical improvements. • Workload out-stripping capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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43. Structural dynamics verification facility study

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Kiraly, L. J, Hirchbein, M. S, Mcaleese, J. M, and Fleming, D. P

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Structural Mechanics
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The need for a structural dynamics verification facility to support structures programs was studied. Most of the industry operated facilities are used for highly focused research, component development, and problem solving, and are not used for the generic understanding of the coupled dynamic response of major engine subsystems. Capabilities for the proposed facility include: the ability to both excite and measure coupled structural dynamic response of elastic blades on elastic shafting, the mechanical simulation of various dynamical loadings representative of those seen in operating engines, and the measurement of engine dynamic deflections and interface forces caused by alternative engine mounting configurations and compliances.

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1981

46. (18)F-FDG PET-CT simulation for non-small-cell lung cancer: effect in patients already staged by PET-CT.

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Hanna GG, McAleese J, Carson KJ, Stewart DP, Cosgrove VP, Eakin RL, Zatari A, Lynch T, Jarritt PH, Young VA, O'Sullivan JM, Hounsell AR, Hanna, Gerard G, McAleese, Jonathan, Carson, Kathryn J, Stewart, David P, Cosgrove, Vivian P, Eakin, Ruth L, Zatari, Ashraf, and Lynch, Tom

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Purpose: Positron emission tomography (PET), in addition to computed tomography (CT), has an effect in target volume definition for radical radiotherapy (RT) for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In previously PET-CT staged patients with NSCLC, we assessed the effect of using an additional planning PET-CT scan for gross tumor volume (GTV) definition. Methods and Materials: A total of 28 patients with Stage IA-IIIB NSCLC were enrolled. All patients had undergone staging PET-CT to ensure suitability for radical RT. Of the 28 patients, 14 received induction chemotherapy. In place of a RT planning CT scan, patients underwent scanning on a PET-CT scanner. In a virtual planning study, four oncologists independently delineated the GTV on the CT scan alone and then on the PET-CT scan. Intraobserver and interobserver variability were assessed using the concordance index (CI), and the results were compared using the Wilcoxon signed ranks test. Results: PET-CT improved the CI between observers when defining the GTV using the PET-CT images compared with using CT alone for matched cases (median CI, 0.57 for CT and 0.64 for PET-CT, p = .032). The median of the mean percentage of volume change from GTV(CT) to GTV(FUSED) was -5.21% for the induction chemotherapy group and 18.88% for the RT-alone group. Using the Mann-Whitney U test, this was significantly different (p = .001). Conclusion: PET-CT RT planning scan, in addition to a staging PET-CT scan, reduces interobserver variability in GTV definition for NSCLC. The GTV size with PET-CT compared with CT in the RT-alone group increased and was reduced in the induction chemotherapy group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2010
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