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Radiotherapy treatment is one of the most important cancer therapies, as approximately half of all cancer patients are treated with radiation in some form during their treatment. Planning radiation treatment is challenging because the potential success of the therapy has to be weighed against potential unwanted side effects, and treatment is highly individual: it is a priori unknown what the chances and limitations of the therapy are for a particular patient.
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Küfer, KH., Süss, P. (2021). Radiotherapy Treatment Planning. In: Bock, H.G., Küfer, KH., Maass, P., Milde, A., Schulz, V. (eds) German Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics. Mathematics in Industry, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81455-7_16
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