# OnCo record idea-pu-open-face-masks (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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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-pu-open-face-masks/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-pu-open-face-masks" ;
  schema:name "Open-face immobilisation masks for brain and head and neck radiotherapy where surface guidance can check the position"@en ;
  schema:description "Radiotherapy to the head usually means a moulded plastic mask clipped to the table over the whole face. In a randomised comparison in 29 people with brain tumours, a mask with the face cut out caused much less discomfort and anxiety with the same accuracy, and 27 of them preferred it."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-pu-open-face-masks/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-10-20"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2024.110314>, <https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-025-02609-8>, <https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16162899>, <https://doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.308> ;
  onco:tag "protocol-upgrade", "upgrade:promising", "evidence:moderate" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-pu-mask-anxiety-screening/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-pu-tattoo-free-set-up/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/brain-tumours/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/surface-guided-radiotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/patient-positioning-surface-guidance-systems/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-patient-voice/> .