The study on the planning of the future radiation therapy

我们已经研究了放射肿瘤学在西方和亚洲国家的现状，以探索未来日本在这一领域的改进方法。我们迫切需要继续加强日本高科技放射治疗的基础设施。放射肿瘤学家和放射治疗技术人员的工作量非常大。这种情况不幸地导致了医疗事故的增加。我们迫切需要通过引进剂量测定师和医学物理学家来改进高科技放射治疗系统，这些专家已经被西方和其他亚洲国家接受为新的医学专业人员。JASTRO和JSRT不再像西方那样依赖剂量学家，而是建立了一个新的系统，在这个系统中，人们获得了辐射质量管理人员的许可，这是提高日本放射肿瘤学质量的第一步。国立主要大学核技术系的硕士和博士研究生现在可以选修放射肿瘤学领域的课程，以获得医学物理学家的资格。为了减少医疗事故的数量，国立癌症中心和京都大学成立了一个名为“放射治疗支持中心”的非营利组织。两年的研究揭示了维持放射肿瘤学QA的重要途径。这方面的努力已经在进行中。我们建议在日本继续进行这种研究，以建立一个新的和改进的放射肿瘤学系统。

We have looked into the status of radiation oncology in Western and Asian countries to explore ways to make improvements in this field here in Japan in the future.1.We urgently need to keep on strengthening the infrastructure of high tech radiation therapy in Japan.2.Radiation oncologists and radiotherapy technicians have extremely heavy workloads. This situation has led to an unfortunate increase in medical accidents.3.We urgently need to revamp the system for high tech radiation therapy by introducing dosimetrists and medical physicists, specialists who are already being accepted as new medical professionals both in Western and other Asian countries.4.Rather than depending on dosimetrists as in the West, JASTRO and JSRT has set up a new system in which people become licensed as radiation quality managers as the first step in improving the quality of radiation oncology in Japan.5.Master's and Doctoral candidates in the Department of Nuclear Technology at major national universities can now take courses in the field of radiation oncology to qualify as medical physicists.6.The nonprofit organization named Radiation Therapy Support Center has been established by the National Cancer Center and Kyoto University to decrease the number of medical accidents.7.Two years of research have revealed important ways to maintain QA in radiation oncology. Efforts toward that end are already in place.8.We recommend continuing this kind of research in moving toward a new and improved system of radiation oncology in Japan.