Duque, Anna Sophie
Corradini, Stefanie
Kamp, Florian
Seidensticker, Max
Streitparth, Florian
Kurz, Christopher
Walter, Franziska
Parodi, Katia
Verhaegen, Frank
Ricke, Jens
Belka, Claus
Fonseca, Gabriel Paiva
Landry, Guillaume
Article History
Received: 25 October 2019
Accepted: 13 February 2020
First Online: 9 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This retrospective study was exempt from requiring ethics approval. Bavarian state law (Bayrisches Krankenhausgesetz/Bavarian Hospital Law §27 Absatz 4 Datenschutz (Dataprotection)) allows the use of patient data for research, provided that any person’s related data are kept anonymous. German radiation protection laws request a regular analysis of outcomes in the sense of quality control and assurance, thus in the case of purely retrospective studies no additional ethical approval is needed under German law.
: Not applicable.
: The Department of Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital of the LMU Munich has an ongoing brachytherapy research agreement with Elekta, Inc.