ESTRO Guide 2019

“I was very happy to learn from the participants sitting around me, including physicists and radiation therapists. They were very helpful and often gave brilliant answers to my questions.”

- Chan Wai, Radiation oncologist | Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China -

KEYWORDS Image guidance, adaptive radiotherapy.

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

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RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY

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

RADIATION ONCOLOGIST, MEDICAL PHYSICIST, RADIATION THERAPIST

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.

FACULTY COURSE DIRECTORS • Coen Rasch, Radiation Oncologist, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam (NL) TEACHERS • Rianne de Jong, Radiation Therapist, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam (NL) • AndrewHope, 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) LOCAL ORGANISER Lurdes Trigo, Radiation Oncologist, Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil, Porto (PT)

METHODS OF ASSESSMENT • MCQ • Evaluation form.

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