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Table 3 Implementation details for each of the cancer centres

From: Factors affecting the implementation of complex and evolving technologies: multiple case study of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in Ontario, Canada

 

Implementation efforts begin

Started

treating with IMRT

First disease site treated with IMRT

Subsequent

disease sites treated

Percentage of patients treated with IMRT*

Centre A

Late 1990's

2001

Prostate

All indicated disease sites

56%

Centre B

2004

2008

Prostate

None

8%

Centre C

2004

2009

Head and Neck

None

0%

Centre D

2001

2004

Head and Neck

Prostate

16%

  1. *(Quarter 4 of 2009/2010) Provincial average 22%