ESTRO Guide 2019

“It was one of the most informative and enjoyable courses or conferences that I have attended. The course was well attended with nearly a hundred delegates from all over the world.”

- Joshua Naylor, Radiotherapy Physics | Dorset Cancer Centre, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole, UK -

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT Evaluation form.

• Permanent seed and HDR prostate implants • Interstitial brachytherapy • Place of intracavitary brachytherapy in cervix, endometrium and vaginal cancer • Place of endoluminal brachytherapy in oesophageal and bronchus carcinoma • Brachytherapy for breast, bladder, anal canal, head and neck, and skin cancer • Brachytherapy for pediatricmalignancies • Recommendations for recording and reporting in interstitial, intracavitary and endoluminal brachytherapy • Use of DVH-parameters • Practical examples of interstitial, intracavitary • Applicator localisation for treatment planning • Permanent and temporary brachytherapy treatment planning • Practical exercises. PREREQUISITES Before commencing this course participants should be qualified or in training as amedical doctor, medical physicist or radiation therapist (RTT) in the field of brachytherapy. • 6 hours of hands on practical sessions on applicators and treatment planning implantations • 5 hours of contouring case homework and discussions. This course consists of didactic lectures, practical sessions with applicators, inter- active sessions with treatment planning stations and clinical aspects and examples. TEACHINGMETHODS • 18 hours of lectures

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RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY

KEYWORDS Brachytherapy, basic course, clinical aspects, state-of-the-art implantation techniques, physics.

RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, MEDICAL PHYSICIST, RADIATION THERAPIST

FACULTY COURSE DIRECTOR Bradley Pieters, Radiation Oncologist, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam (NL) TEACHERS • Dimos Baltas, Medical Physicist, University of Freiburg, Freiburg (DE) • Cyrus Chargari, Radiation Oncologist, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif (FR) • José Luis Guinot Rodríguez, Radiation Oncologist, Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Valencia (ES) • Peter Hoskin, Radiation Oncologist, Mount Vernon Hospital, London (UK) • Andrea Slocker Escarpa, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Català d’Oncologia, Barcelona (ES) • Erik van Limbergen, Radiation Oncologist, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven (BE)

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

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

CONTOURING ADMINISTRATOR Andrea Slocker Escarpa, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Catala d’Oncologia, Barcelona (ES)

LOCAL ORGANISERS • Efi Koutsouveli, Medical Physicist, Hygeia hospital , Athens (GR) • Pola Platoni, Medical Physicist, Attikon, University Hospital, Athens (GR)

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

Bradley Pieters

FALCON Fellowship inAnatomicdeLineation&CONtouring

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