Conveners
Tuesday afternoon - Poster Presentations - Screen5
- Oleg Belyakov (IAEA)
Igor Stojkovski
(University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology)
20/06/2017, 15:30
Clinical Radiation Oncology
Poster
**Introduction:** Glioblastoma multiformae is the most common and the most aggressive brain tumor. Despite the major advantages in personalization and precision of the treatment, median survival of patients is approximately 12 to 16 months. Today standard of care for patients with glioblastoma is postoperative radiotherapy with temozolomide followed by adjuvant temozolomide. Radiation is...
Moamen M.O.M. Aly
(1 Medical Physics Section, Radiation Oncology Department, Comprehensive Cancer Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.3 Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Department, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.),
Mukhtar Al-Shanqity
(1 Medical Physics Section, Radiation Oncology Department, Comprehensive Cancer Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.)
20/06/2017, 15:35
Clinical Radiation Oncology
Poster
Introduction: The ICRU reports number 50 and 62 guidelines for dose homogeneity and dose conformity on the PTV to be confined within 95% to 107% of the prescribed dose is difficult to be maintained for IMRT plans, and it is almost impossible for VMAT. ICRU 83 recommends assessing the target volume homogeneity by evaluating the high- and low-dose regions using dose-volume quantities such as D2%...
Martha Cotes
(Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Bogotá)
20/06/2017, 15:40
Clinical Radiation Oncology
Poster
Introduction: Head and neck carcinomas are a group of malignant tumors with a common location. Conformal Radiotherapy and Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy conform the dose and protect organs at risk. A descriptive study of patients with squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck treated with these radiations techniques in South America was conducted.
Materials and methods: A...
Pablo Moreno-Acosta
(Research Group in Radiobiology Clinical, Molecular and Cellular, National Cancer Institute, Bogota, Colombia)
20/06/2017, 15:45
Clinical Radiation Oncology
Poster
Uterine cervical cancer (UCC) is one of the most prevalent malignant neoplasms in the world. UCC develops beyond the stage in situ and is frequently treated by a combination of intracavitary radiation therapy and external beam radiation therapy; 30 to 40% of patients with similar prognosis factors not respond equally to a comparable standard treatment. Therefore, the study and identification...
Kamaran A. Mohammad
(Zhianawa Cancer Center)
20/06/2017, 15:50
Clinical Radiation Oncology
Poster
Background:
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in Iraqi ladies and the need for the adjuvant (Adj) Radio-Therapy (RT) as part of the breast cancer treatment, is important in many of the cases. RT centers are few in this war-torn country (10 in total) and they are over-loaded with the cancer patients and under-equipped with the required machines and staff (16 functioning linear...
