# OnCo record idea-fund-course-based-radiotherapy-payment (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-course-based-radiotherapy-payment/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-fund-course-based-radiotherapy-payment" ;
  schema:name "Pay per course of radiotherapy, not per session, so short courses are not penalised"@en ;
  schema:description "Hospitals are paid for each radiotherapy session, so a proven five-session course earns less than an unproven twenty-five-session one. Paying per course removes the reason to give more treatment than needed."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-course-based-radiotherapy-payment/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00223-5> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-radiotherapy-trials-infrastructure/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-payer-funded-pragmatic-trials/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/sbrt/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-incentive-misalignment/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-sullivan-lancet-oncol/> .