Follow-Up After Radiotherapy

Regular follow-up is often important in the first two years of curative treatment, taking place every three to four months for a clinical examination and diagnostic procedures such as imaging and blood tests. For some tumors, clinical examination or endoscopy is most important — as in skin and laryngeal cancer; for others, blood tests are the most important — as in prostate cancer; and for others, diagnostic imaging is the basis — as in brain tumors. Every patient is therefore different from the next. After two years of curative treatment, visits become less frequent over the years — once a year or once every several months — and in some cases the patient follows up with a family physician or a hospital near their place of residence.