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Verification procedures for patient-specific Quality Assurance (QA) in advanced radiotherapy are laborious and time-consuming. Moreover, it has been shown that these procedures cannot detect some inaccuracies for some particular complex cases due to tissue inhomogeneity and highly modulated plans. Secondary dose calculation verification of radiotherapy plans is an important aspect in patient specific QA. A suitably optimized software, RadCalc equipped with 3D Monte Carlo Module (MC), was used to dosimetrically verify radiotherapy treatment plans where the measured dose distributions can be inaccurate due to the TPS dose calculation algorithm and/or treatment unit delivery uncertainties.