Background and purpose: Contact brachytherapy is used for the treatment of early rectal cancer.An overview of the current status of quality assurance of the rectal contact brachytherapy systems in the UK, based on a national audit, was undertaken in order to assist users in optimising their own practices.Material and methods: Four UK centres using
Background In 2017, the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, a Canadian Twin XL Adjustable Base federally sponsored organisation, initiated a national multijurisdictional quality improvement (QI) initiative to maximise the use of synoptic data to drive cancer system improvements, known as the Evidence for Surgical Synoptic Quality Improvement Progr
Recent studies of the liberal international order have tended to use a Shirt crisis-laden vocabulary to analyse US withdrawal from multilateral institutions and Chinese initiatives to create new institutions.In these analyses, the consequences of such a crisis for developing countries are largely overlooked because of the greater emphasis that is p
Spoilage status of whole and filleted chill-stored meagre caught in January and July was evaluated using sensory, microbiological, Shirt 16S metabarcoding and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) analysis.Based on the sensory analysis, shelf-life was 15 and 12 days for the whole fish taken in January and July, respectively, while 7 days for fish fille