Post-radiotherapy follow-up care is firmly established in German radiotherapy practice and is partly tailored to the patient's individual risk based on radiation side effects and treatment intent. Most institutions adhere to the recommendations of DEGRO and SSK. Digital and structured tools are currently only used to a limited extent in practice. However, they offer considerable potential for future use in further personalizing and optimizing the quality of PFC, also with regard to the still necessary definition and/or harmonization of PFC content.
Bruns et al. (2026) studied this question.