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Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volume 129, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 417-420
Radiotherapy and Oncology

Education
NHL-ChirEx: An interprofessional cross-border education initiative in the Greater Region with a focus on radiation morbidity and patient safety

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Abstract

NHL-ChirEx is an interprofessional cross-border education project that addresses the potential excess of radiation induced morbidity throughout the radiation planning and treatment process. NHL-ChirEx is supported by ESTRO and the University of the Greater Region and has been recently approved and funded under INTERREG VA Programme.

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Conflicts of interest

There is no conflict of interest to report for this article.

Authorship

GV drafted the manuscript and animate the consortium, JF, JCS, PN, AE, FM, IB, PC, DP, MU, MB filled their own survey for their respective country and regularly participated in the discussions; All authors revised the manuscript critically and have approved the final article.

Funding

NHL Chir-Ex is founded by EU-Interreg Va Greater Region Programme (Grant N°043-1-01-125).

Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge all the people involved in the whole project who could not be cited within the authors: Thomas Fuchs-Buder (Nancy), Farès Namour (Nancy), Pascal Boudin-Corvina (Nancy), Karine Feltgen (Nancy), Catherine Strasser (Nancy), Christian Ruebe, MD, PhD (Homburg s/ Saar), Anne-Carole Nieveler, MD (Homburg s/ Saar), Heinz Schmidberger, MD, PhD (Mainz), Michael Noel (Liège), Nicolas Gillain (Liège), Michèle Guillaume (Liège), Alexandre Guysen (Liège), the deans of the

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