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April 16, 2026Strahlentherapie und Onkologie0 citationsOpen Access

How do you handle post-radiotherapy follow-up care? Results of a national pattern-of-care study

FBFrank BrunsLGLilli GeworskiRBRobert M. Blach

Key Points

  • To analyze how post-radiotherapy follow-up care is handled across German institutions and identify areas for improvement.
  • National survey of radiotherapy institutions
  • Assessment of adherence to DEGRO and SSK recommendations
  • Evaluation of digital tool usage in follow-up care
  • Most institutions follow DEGRO and SSK recommendations for post-radiotherapy care.
  • Digital and structured tools are minimally used in current practice.
  • There is significant potential for these tools to personalize and improve follow-up care quality.

Abstract

Post-radiotherapy follow-up care is firmly established in German radiotherapy practice and is partly tailored to the patient's individual risk based on radiation side effects and treatment intent. Most institutions adhere to the recommendations of DEGRO and SSK. Digital and structured tools are currently only used to a limited extent in practice. However, they offer considerable potential for future use in further personalizing and optimizing the quality of PFC, also with regard to the still necessary definition and/or harmonization of PFC content.

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Bruns et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e07d732f7e8953b7cbe570https://doi.org/10.1007/s00066-026-02523-2
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