QUARTET: A SIOP Europe project for quality and excellence in radiotherapy and imaging for children and adolescents with cancer

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QUARTET: A SIOP Europe project for quality and excellence in radiotherapy and imaging for children and adolescents with cancer
 
QUARTET Project and the SIOPE Radiation Oncology Working Group
(2022) European Journal of Cancer, volume 172, pp. 209 - 220
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Abstract
The European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) Radiation Oncology Working Group presents the QUARTET Project: a centralised quality assurance programme designed to standardise care and improve the quality of radiotherapy and imaging for international clinical trials recruiting children and adolescents with cancer throughout Europe. QUARTET combines the paediatric radiation oncology ... read more
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Keywords: Clinical trial, Oncology, Paediatric, Quality assurance, Radiology, Radiotherapy, Oncology, Cancer Research, Journal Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2022.05.037
ISSN: 0959-8049
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
Note: Funding Information: QUARTET and the work of Sarah Kelly and Dr Rachel Effeney as fellows at EORTC Headquarters are funded by Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner, Luxembourg. Dr Mark N. Gaze is supported by the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre and by the Radiation Research Unit at the Cancer Research UK City of London Centre Award [C7893/A28990]. Dr Rudolf Schwarz is supported by Deutsche Kinderkrebsstiftung. Funding Information: QUARTET and the work of Sarah Kelly and Rachel Effeney as fellows at EORTC Headquarters are funded thanks to the generosity of Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner, Luxembourg (SIOPE Grant). Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the wider QUARTET group and all supporting collaborators for their past and future contributions to this initiative; this includes all consenting patients or parents for their participation in clinical trials. The authors also thank the international trial sponsors who have integrated QUARTET: Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica, German Paediatric Oncology Group, Gustave Roussy, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe de Valencia, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, UMC Utrecht, and the University of Birmingham; as well as the European Clinical Trial Groups supporting trial and research activities: SIOPE Brain Tumour Group, European Paediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group, SIOP Renal Tumour Study Group, SIOPE-Neuroblastoma, and the Euro Ewing Consortium. QUARTET and the work of Sarah Kelly and Rachel Effeney as fellows at EORTC Headquarters are funded thanks to the generosity of Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner, Luxembourg (SIOPE Grant). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors
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