[Securitization of the bi-site radiotherapy activity as part of the resumption of treatments in the Hospital of Epinal by the team of Alexis Vautrin Nancy Cancer Center].

Abstract

In February 2007, the radiation therapy department of the Jean Monnet Hospital in Epinal (France) has stopped the radiotherapy treatments after the discovery of a radiotherapy accident and bad practices leading to overexposure of patients between 1987 and 2006. The Regional Cancer Center "Centre Alexis Vautrin" in Nancy (France) was given the task of the new start of treatment activity. From February 2007 to January 2008, actions of training, updates of equipments and practices have been performed in the Epinal Hospital, guided by the quality approach, allowing the treatment of new patients in February 2008, with the radiation oncologists and the medical physicists of the Centre Alexis Vautrin, with the highest conditions of security and confidence.

• Authors: V Marchesi, D Aigle, D Peiffert, A Noel, J-M Simon
• Journal: Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique (Cancer Radiother) Vol. 13 Issue 8 Pg. 740-3 (Dec 2009) ISSN: 1769-6658 [Electronic] France
• Vernacular Title: Sécurisation de l'activité de radiothérapie bi-site dans le cadre de la reprise des traitements au centre hospitalier d'Epinal par l'équipe du centre Alexis-Vautrin de Nancy.
• PMID: 19692280 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Cancer Care Facilities
• France
• Humans
• Quality Control
• Radiation Injuries (prevention & control)
• Radioactive Hazard Release (prevention & control)
• Risk Management
• Safety Management (organization & administration)