Conveners
Friday morning - Poster Presentations - Screen4
- Oleg Belyakov (IAEA)
Tajudeen Ayodeji Olasinde
(Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria)
23/06/2017, 10:30
Clinical Radiation Oncology
Poster
Introduction:This is a retrospective study at the Radiotherapy and Oncology Centre, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria using Low Dose Rate (LDR) remote after-loading brachytherapy for the treatment of carcinoma of the uterine cervix. This is a resource poor setting with patients usually presenting with advanced stages of cervical cancers. Factors supporting the existing...
Egor Titovich
(N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus)
23/06/2017, 10:35
Education and Training of Professionals Working in Radiotherapy
Poster
Background: Due to economic and other circumstances in the countries of the former Soviet Union, there is a significant engineering and physics staff turnover rate in the radiotherapy departments (the average age of employees of the radiotherapy engineering and medical physics department, N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus is about 30 years). To maintain the high quality of...
Tatsuji Mizukami
(Gunma University Heavy Ion Medical Center)
23/06/2017, 10:40
Clinical Radiation Oncology
Poster
**Introduction of the study;** The standard treatment for prostate cancer with bladder invasion which was classified very high risk according to the NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology version 1.2015 has not been established. There are few reports, and one of them reported that 44.6% of patients received neither the operation nor the radiation therapy. The carbon ion radiotherapy has...
Eduardo Rosenblatt
(IAEA)
23/06/2017, 10:45
Education and Training of Professionals Working in Radiotherapy
Poster
NEED FOR COMPETENCY-BASED RADIATION ONCOLOGY EDUCATION FROM A GLOBAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
Eduardo Rosenblatt, Gregorius Ben Prajogi, Michael Barton, Elena Fidarova, Jesper G. Eriksen, Bruce Haffty, Barbara Ann Millar, Anita Bustam, Eduardo Zubizarreta, May Abdel-Wahab.
Although not a new concept in itself, competency-based education has set the trend for the globally accepted standard norm for...
Csilla Pesznyak
(BME Institute of Nuclear Techniques)
23/06/2017, 10:50
Education and Training of Professionals Working in Radiotherapy
Poster
Introduction: The subject covering particular areas of radiation therapy is of primary importance in the curriculum of a Medical Physics MSc course. These areas include dose measurements, pertinent dosimetry and treatment planning tools. Advanced radiotherapy techniques, such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy, image-guided radiotherapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), 3D...
