ESTRO38 Congress Report

AWARDS GRANTED AT ESTRO 38

Lifetime Achievement Award Gyorgy Kovacs (Germany) Riccardo Calandrino (Italy) Ekkehard Dikomey (Germany) Christian Carrie (France)

Company awards • ESTRO-Elekta Brachytherapy Award Bi-objective optimization of dosimetric indices for HDR prostate brachytherapy within 30 seconds Anton Bouter (The Netherlands) • ESTRO-Varian Award Distributed learning on 20 000+ lung cancer patients Timo Deist and Frank Dankers (The Netherlands) • GEC-ESTRO Best junior presentation – sponsored by Elekta Brachytherapy Clinical outcomes of focal salvage high-dose-rate brachytherapy for radiorecurrent prostate cancer Max Peters (The Netherlands) Persistence of late substantial patient reported symptoms (LAPERS): A report from the EMBRACE study Anders Schwartz Vittrup (Denmark) • Physicist Comparison of automatic tumour segmentation approaches for head and neck cancers in PET/CT images Aurora Rosvoll Groendahl (Norway) • Radiation TherapisT (RTT) The impact of intra-thoracic anatomical changes on the delivery of lung SABR Matthew Beasley (United Kingdom) ESTRO – ELSEVIER BEST POSTER AWARDS The three ESTRO-Elsevier open access journals: ctRO (clinical), phiRO (physics) and tipsRO... also awarded the best poster in their category as follows: • ctRO Radiation Oncologist Development and validation of prediction models for salivary dysfunction in HN cancer patients Lisa Van den Bosch (Belgium) • phiRO Physicist Automatic radiotherapy treatment planning using Best Poster Awards • Radiation oncologist

ESTRO Award Lectures and Academic Awards • Claudius Regaud award Lecture Is fractionation history? Dirk De Ruysscher (The Netherlands) • Klaus Breur Award Lecture

A stroll in Rome together Vincenzo Valentini (Italy) • Emmanuel van der Schueren Award Lecture Learning from clinical practice: pushing quality forward Núria Jornet (Spain) • Jens Overgaard Legacy Award Back to the future, a tale of volumes Philip Poortmans (France) • GEC-ESTRO Iridium 192 Award The role of women in the brachytherapy field Christine Haie-Meder (France) • Donald Hollywood award lecture Stemcell sparing IMRT for head and neck cancer patients: a double-blind randomized controlled trial Roel Steenbakkers (The Netherlands) • Honorary Members award lectures Multidisciplinary approaches as the keys to defeat lung cancer Giorgio Scagliotti (Italy) Are radiation specialists good global cancer citizens? Julie Torode (Switzerland) Putting down the scalpel. The evolution of rectal cancer treatment. Angelita Habr-Gama (Brazil) Precisionmedicine – an opportunity for medical physics and radiation oncology Matthias Guckenberger (Switzerland) Academic award: • Jack Fowler University of Wisconsin Award First clinical real-time motion-including tumour dose reconstruction during radiotherapy delivery Simon Skouboe (Denmark)

Particle Swarm Optimization Luise Anna Künzel (Germany)

• tipsRO

Radiation TherapisT (RTT) Strategies to maintain bladder and rectum volumes do not reduce the GTV movement for rectal cancer RT Nuria Espinosa (Spain)

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