Radiotherapy in Australia one year after the Baume report: vision or mirage?

• 1 Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Liverpool Health Service, Liverpool, NSW.
• 2 Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, VIC.
• 3 Division of Oncology, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, QLD.

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