Conveners
Tuesday morning - Poster Presentations - Screen5
- Oleg Belyakov (IAEA)
Hawbir O. Ghafour
(Zhianawa Cancer Center)
20/06/2017, 10:30
Global Cancer Challenges and Role of RT
Poster
Background:
Brachytherapy (BT) is a well-known part of radiotherapy services for cancer treatment globally for almost a century and can be generally of low dose rate (LDR) or high dose rate (HDR) via using different radioactive isotopes. This service was used to be in Iraqi radiotherapy institutes till 1990s when the wars and embargo started to affect all the aspects of life. All the patients...
Eduardo Zubizarreta
(Section Head ARBR - NAHU - IAEA)
20/06/2017, 10:35
Global Cancer Challenges and Role of RT
Poster
Purpose/objective
To present data on availability of megavoltage (Mv) units (cobalt machines (Co) and linacs) in Africa from 1991 to 2015 and the additional resources needed to reach full capacity, including a cost analysis.
Material and methods
The list and income classification of countries were taken from the World Bank, Country and Lending Groups, 2017 fiscal year [1]. Data on...
Paul Hill
(Cork University Hospital, Ireland)
20/06/2017, 10:40
Global Cancer Challenges and Role of RT
Poster
In October 2016 a team comprising three Radiation Oncologists and one Medical Physicist made a visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. The purpose of the visit was to deliver a Radiotherapy Treatment Planning course to trainees, Consultant Radiation Oncologists and Physicists. Visits were made to three radiotherapy centres in Kathmandu : Bir Hospital Kathmandu (1 Co60), Kathmandu Cancer Centre(1 linac) and...
Hajer Kammoun
(Institut Salah Azaiez de Cancerologie, Tunis)
20/06/2017, 10:45
Global Cancer Challenges and Role of RT
Poster
Small cell lung cancer: A retrospective study of 70 cases
Background:
Small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) is an aggressive form of lung cancer. Therapeutic strategies are chemotherapy (CT), radiotherapy (RT) and supportive care. This study aims to investigate the clinicopathologic characteristics, therapy methods and prognosis of SCLC.
Methods:
We conducted a retrospective study of 70 cases...
Rosangela Villar
(Centro Infantil Boldrini)
20/06/2017, 10:50
Poster
Introduction: In our country and others Low Income Countries (LIC) the difficulty to access technology cause delay in Radiotherapy (RT) and decrease survival. Children have their treatments delayed especially if their treatments include 3D plannings. We thought that could be educative to evaluate when 2D plannings could be used safely in paediatric radiation oncology cases. During a project...
