ESTRO Guide 2018

“This course provided an excellent platform for debate over a packed three-and-a-half-day programme.”

- Susan Lupton | Coventry, UK -

KEYWORDS Breast cancer, radiation therapy, multidisciplinarity, breast conserving therapy, APBI, clinical trials, target volume delineation, side effects, quality of life.

• Target volume delineation with discussions based on homework • Practical treatment preparation and delivery tips and tricks • Clinical case discussions. PREREQUISITES Before commencing this course participants should: • Have at least basic experience with all aspects of radiation therapy for breast cancer patients. If the participants are not radiation/clinical oncologists (in training) they should be involved in the interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary case discussions and/or inwork related to treating breast cancer patients • Participate beforehand in the exercises on target volume delineation in breast cancer.

ROADMAP

MULTIMODAL CANCER TREATMENT

RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, OTHER SPECIALIST

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

FACULTY COURSE DIRECTOR Philip Poortmans, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Curie, Paris (FR) TEACHERS • Tibor Major, Medical Physicist, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest (HU) • Birgitte Offersen, Clinical Oncologist, Aarhus University Hospital, Aahrus (DK) • Roberto Orecchia, Radiation Oncologist, European Institute of Oncology, Milan (IT) • Vratislav Strnad, Radiation Oncologist, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen (DE) CONTOURING ADMINISTRATOR Sandra Hol, Radiation Technologist, Institute Verbeeten, Tilburg (NL) The Faculty will be completed with local specialists in specific domains. Please visit www.estro.org/school for the latest 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 Physicians Recognition Award (PRA). Information on the status of the applications can be obtained from the ESTRO office.

SCHOOL

TEACHINGMETHODS Approximately (spread over 3,5 days):

• 21 hours of lectures, case discussions and debates • 4 hours of practical workshops for treatment preparation including contouring and treatment delivery.

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT • MCQ • Delineation exercise • Evaluation form.

This course is using the FALCON platform (Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation and CONtouring) for the contouring exercises

FALCON Fellowship inAnatomicdeLineation&CONtouring

Philip Poortmans

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