Cancer is a disease that directly or indirectly affects all of us at one point in our life.
It is estimated that 52.3% of cancer cases would require radiotherapy (RT) at one point during their treatment (Barton et al. 2014).
Consequently, therapy radiographers (TR)
have a key role in the health care provision, thus, it is important that their skills are abreast with new findings and technology upgrades. Despite all this, a common regulation for TR across the EU countries does not exist, leading to differences in skills required to qualify and practice across member states.
This hinders mobility of professionals and compromises patient safety, creating a need for more standardised requirements regarding training programmes for TR across the EU territory.