Population Accessibility to Radiotherapy Services in New South Wales Region of Australia: a methodological contribution
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Wickramasuriya, Rohan
Miller, Andrew
Perez, Pascal
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This paper proposes an integrated modelling process to assess the population accessibility to radiotherapy treatment services in future based on future cancer incidence and road network-based accessibility. Previous research efforts assessed travel distance/time barriers affecting access to cancer treatment services, as well as epidemiological studies that showed that cancer incidence rates vary with population demography. It is established that travel distances to treatment centres and demographic profiles of the accessible regions greatly influence the demand for cancer radiotherapy (RT) services. However, an integrated service planning approach that combines spatially-explicit cancer incidence projections, and the RT services accessibility based on patient road network have never been attempted. This research work presents this novel methodology for the accessibility assessment of RT services and demonstrates its viability by modelling New South Wales (NSW) cancer incidence rates for different age-sex groups based on observed cancer incidence trends; estimating the road network-based access to current NSW treatment centres; and, projecting the demand for RT services in New South Wales, Australia from year 2011 to 2026.
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series
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616
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1
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© The Author(s) 2015. Content from this work may be used under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
RADIATION-THERAPY
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Shukla, N; Wickramasuriya, R; Miller, A; Perez, P, Population Accessibility to Radiotherapy Services in New South Wales Region of Australia: a methodological contribution, MINI EURO CONFERENCE ON IMPROVING HEALTHCARE: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW APPROACHES, 2015, 616 (1), pp. 012004