The U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has commended recent guidance by National Health Service (NHS) Digital on record attention relating to oncology records and has also offered its own set of recommendations.
The RCR recommends, at a minimum, that the following records are retained until eight years after death:
- Planning CT information in DICOM image format
- Patient-specific photos and diagrams
- Patient-specific measurements
- Radiation dose and fractionation: both that prescribed and delivered
- Plan construction information -- for example, field size, monitor units, etc.
- 3D dose distribution information; dose/volume histogram information and dose to organs at risk
- Independent dose/monitor unit verification
- Imaging obtained during treatment verification
- Systemic anticancer therapy delivered -- including drug name, dose prescribed and delivered, toxicities experienced, and supporting medications delivered
Further details are available on the RCR website.
![Overview of the study design. (A) The fully automated deep learning framework was developed to estimate body composition (BC) (defined as subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT] in liters; visceral adipose tissue [VAT] in liters; skeletal muscle [SM] in liters; SM fat fraction [SMFF] as a percentage; and intramuscular adipose tissue [IMAT] in deciliters) from MRI. The fully automated framework comprised one model (model 1) to quantify different BC measures (SAT, VAT, SM, SMFF, and IMAT) as three-dimensional (3D) measures from whole-body MRI scans. The second model (model 2) was trained to identify standardized anatomic landmarks along the craniocaudal body axis (z coordinate field), which allowed for subdividing the whole-body measures into different subregions typically examined on clinical routine MRI scans (chest, abdomen, and pelvis). (B) BC was quantified from whole-body MRI in over 66,000 individuals from two large population-based cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (36,317 individuals) and the German National Cohort (NAKO) (30,291 individuals). Bar graphs show age distribution by sex and cohort. BMI = body mass index. (C) After the performance assessment of the fully automated framework, the change in BC measures, distributions, and profiles across age decades were investigated. Age-, sex-, and height-adjusted body composition reference curves were calculated and made publicly available in a web-based z-score calculator (https://circ-ml.github.io).](https://img.auntminnieeurope.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/05/body-comp.XgAjTfPj1W.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
