Radiotherapy use during 1st phase of cancer treatment declining across US

[scarbrtj]

Which means we need more new residents out there drumming up new business to turn this ship 'round.

Radiotherapy use during 1st phase of cancer treatment declining across US

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[seper]

Not a rigorously done piece of research, secondary to poor choice of large dataset.

 

[Haybrant]

Which means we need more new residents out there drumming up new business to turn this ship 'round.

Radiotherapy use during 1st phase of cancer treatment declining across US

Agree with more residents! Lots more, like let’s double up. You get a spot, and you get a spot, and you get a spot, everyone gets a spot!!

 

[RickyScott]

Agree with more residents! Lots more, like let’s double up. You get a spot, and you get a spot, and you get a spot, everyone gets a spot!!

I am waiting for an "evidence -based-*****" lurking out there to claim that we need phase III randomized proof before we can conclude that doubling supply of residency slots in the face of declining demand (less diseases, less fractions per disease) will impact the job market.
Thoughts:
1)"Radiotherapy itself declined in use a modest 2.7 percent, sinking steadily from 33.9 percent in 2004 to 31.2 percent in 2014, the authors said."- Isnt that about 10% decline in analytical cases.
2) This data ends in 2014, but dince 2014 anecdotally, there has been a real acceleration in hypofractionation with national breast and palliative guidelines formulated and increasingly adopted.