ESTRO Guide 2018

“This is where you will meet the biggest stars of medical physics and radiation therapy. It’s as if your dreams became true – people who you know only through their publications are there, and you can talk to them and ask them all the questions you want.”

- Julien Darréon | Marseille, France -

LEARNINGOUTCOMES By the end of this course participants should be able to: • Understand the principles of image guided and adaptive radiotherapy • Be able to implement image guidance for major patient groups in their home clinic • Understand the relevant choices for the selection of the best image guidance protocol for their home situation • Know the potential benefits of various image guidance and ART protocols. COURSE CONTENT This is a 5-day course organised to identify the influence of image guidance at important steps in the workflow of radiation therapy. The following items will be covered in view of in-room imaging for therapy guidance: • Image guidance required for treatment prescription • Image guidance in treatment preparation and treatment planning • Image guidance in patient set-up and target localisation during treatment • Strategies and software tools for adaptive radiotherapy • Image guidance in treatment follow-up. TEACHINGMETHODS • Lectures and workshops • Regular breakout sessions for MDs, physicists and radiation therapists.

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT • MCQ • Evaluation form.

ROADMAP

RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY

RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, MEDICAL PHYSICIST, RADIATION THERAPIST

KEYWORDS Image guidance, adaptive radiotherapy.

FACULTY COURSE DIRECTORS • Coen Rasch, Radiation Oncologist, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam (NL) • Marianne Aznar, Medical Physicist, The Christie, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK) TEACHERS • Rianne de Jong, Radiation Therapist, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam (NL) • Andrew Hope, Radiation Oncologist, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto (CA) • Helen McNair, Radiation Therapist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London (UK) • Uwe Oelfke, Medical Physicist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London (UK) • Parag Parikh, Radiation Oncologist, Washington University, St Louis (USA) • Jan-Jakob Sonke, Medical Physicist, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam (NL) • Marcel van Herk, Medical Physicist, The Christie, University of Manchester, Manchester (UK)

FURTHER READING Please consult the ESTRO website page of this course for further information.

ACCREDITATION Application for CME recognitionwill be submitted to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME), an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). EACCME credits are recognised by the AmericanMedical Association towards the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA). Information on the status of the applications can be obtained from the ESTRO office.

SCHOOL

LOCAL ORGANISER • Tibor Major, Physicist, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest

Time will be allocated as follows: • 23 hours of lectures • 3 hours of tutorials • 4 hours of case discussions / exercise.

Coen Rasch

Marianne Aznar

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