Name: International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology #ICARO2
Start: 2017-06-20T07:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-06-23T18:30:00+02:00
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International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology #ICARO2

from Tuesday, 20 June 2017 (07:00) to Friday, 23 June 2017 (18:30)

Monday, 19 June 2017
Tuesday, 20 June 2017

07:30

07:30 - 09:00
Room: Gate 1
09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Room: M1
Contributions

09:00 DDG-NA

09:10 DDG-TC

09:20 DIR-NAHU
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Room: M1
Contributions

09:30 From ICARO1 to ICARO2: the radiation oncologist perspective - Eduardo Rosenblatt (IAEA)

10:00 From ICARO1 to ICARO2: the medical physicist perspective - Geoffrey Ibbott
10:20
10:20 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 A centralized model of effective radiation oncology service development:the Azerbaijan Republic experience - Isa Isayev

10:35 Audit of the radiotherapy waiting times for patients in Malta - Chantelle Said

10:40 Trend of availability and use of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy(IMRT) in Thailand, statistical report from 2008 to 2015. - Poompis Pattaranutaporn (Ramathibodi Hospital)

10:45 Radiotherapy in cancer treatment in Ghana: from the past to present - Emmanuel Worlali FIAGBEDZI (Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital)

10:50 The risk for developing a second primary tumor in long surviving cancer patients - Monica-Emilia Chirila (Institute of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
10:30 Coffee break and e-Poster presentations
Coffee break and e-Poster presentations
10:30 - 11:00
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Cost of radiotherapeutic management of patients with cancer in regional cancer center in India - Ramaiah Vinay Kumar (Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology)

10:35 Photon boost after lumpectomy in breast cancer and acute toxicities in NwGH & RC - Muhammad Aqeel Hussain (Northwest General hospital & Research Centre)

10:40 Atypical meningiomas: is there a role for post-operative radiotherapy? - Luis Souhami (McGill University Health Centre)

10:45 Roadmap for setting up a comprehensive state of the art radiation oncology facility at Mbingo Baptist Hospital (MBH) Cameroon - Rebecca Buecker (Klinikum Lippe)

10:50 Radiotherapy in Hue: journey and effort - Nguyen Tuong Pham (Hue Central Hospital)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Radiotherapy in Peru: shortage and inequities in access and solution proposal - Paola Carolina Guerrero-Leon (Ministry of Health, Peru)

10:35 Clinical outcomes and beam quality correlations on skin cancer radiotherapy management in Mexico: A national institute experience: 2000-2013 - Evangelina Figueroa-Medina (Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (México))

10:40 The past, present and future directions of radiotherapy in Asia: linking technology and the fight against cancer - Miriam Joy Calaguas (Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center-Department of Radiotherapy, Philippines)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Automated treatment planning system commissioning: error reduction and improved efficiency for low and middle income countries come Countries - Amy Wexler (University of Missouri - Columbia)

10:35 Status of Radiotherapy and results of TLD postal dose quality audit in Ukraine - Tetiana Pidlubna (State Clinical Hospital Feofaniya)

10:40 Challenges and solutions of establishing advanced radiation oncology services in low and middle income (LMI) countries - Belal Moftah (King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center)

10:45 Broken machines or broken systems – The ugandan experience, on accessing/maintaining radiotherapy services, in low and middle-income countries - Awusi Kavuma (Uganda Cancer Institute)

10:50 Radiotherapy utilization in developing countries: an IAEA study. - Eduardo Rosenblatt (IAEA)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Challenges and solutions, advantages and disadvantages of launching 1st 3-Dimensional brachytherapy in a developing war-torn country (Iraq) using Co-60 High Dose Rate (HDR) source - Hawbir O. Ghafour (Zhianawa Cancer Center)

10:35 Availability of radiotherapy in Africa: past and present of an unsolved problem - Eduardo Zubizarreta (Section Head ARBR - NAHU - IAEA)

10:40 Radiotherapy in Nepal: a view from medical physics - Paul Hill (Cork University Hospital, Ireland)

10:45 Small cell lung cancer: A retrospective study of 70 cases - Hajer Kammoun (Institut Salah Azaiez de Cancerologie, Tunis)

10:50 Two Dimensional (2D) vsThree dimensional (3D) treatment planning in Paediatric Radiation Oncology. Less technology can be acceptable? - Rosangela Villar (Centro Infantil Boldrini)
11:00
11:00 - 12:15
Room: M1
Contributions

11:00 Challenges in cancer control - Mary Gospodarowicz (Princess Margaret Hospital (Canada))

11:08 Sustainability of radiotherapy in LMICs - Alfredo Polo (IAEA)

11:16 Innovating to meet the demand for RT - David Jaffray

11:24 Reimbursement in HIC - Yolande Lievens (University Hospital Ghant (Belgium))

11:32 Auditing advanced technologies - David Followill (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

11:40 Discussion, Q&A
12:15
12:15 - 12:30
Room: M1
Contributions

12:15 DIrectory of Radiotherapy Centers (DIRAC) - Joanna Izewska (International Atomic Energy Agency)
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M3
Contributions

12:30 e-Contouring Workshop: Lung Cancer - Billy W. Loo
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M1
Contributions

12:30 Paediatric medulloblastoma - Mohamed Zaghloul (Children's Cancer Hospital, Egypt & National Cancer Institute, Cairo University)

12:55 Benefits of High Technology applied to Paediatric Radiation Oncology - Rosangela Villar (Centro Infantil Boldrini)

13:20 Paediatric intraoperative electron radiotherapy: results and innovations - Felipe Calvo

13:45 Discussion
Technologies in External Beam Radiotherapy
Technologies in External Beam Radiotherapy
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M7
Contributions

12:30 Varian

12:45 Panacea

13:00 Theratronics

13:15 Elekta

13:30 UJP

13:45 Discussion, QA
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: M1
Contributions

14:05 Panellist - 1 - Pierre Scalliet

14:10 Panellist - 2 - Jacob Van Dyk (Departments of Oncology and Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada)

14:15 Panellist - 3 - Debbie van der Merwe (University of the Witwatersrand)

14:20 Panellist - 4 - Mary Coffey

14:25 Discussion, Q&A
15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Room: M1
Contributions

15:00 Health economics of cancer - Yolande Lievens

15:25 Question and Answers
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 High dose rate surface Brachytherapy for skin with Flap applicator. Technique and discussion of a case - Hanae Bakkali (Institut National d'Oncologie, Rabat)

15:35 Hypofractionated radiation for pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is non-inferior to conventional fractionation: a prospective randomized trial including 222 children - Mohamed Zaghloul (Children's Cancer Hospital,Egypt & National Cancer Institute, Cairo University)

15:40 Dosimetric comparison of dose to contralateral breast in postmestectomy patients treated using different treatment techniques - Gourav Kumar Jain (Department of Radiological Physics, SMS Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur)

15:45 Role of radiotherapy in multiple myeloma; a multicentric experience - AYA ABAZA (Assistant Prof. of Safety and Prevention of Oncology at ENRRA)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Measurement of testicular dose during the treatment of Ewing Sarcoma patient underwent External Beam Radiotherapy - Gourav Kumar Jain (Department of Radiological Physics, SMS Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur)

15:35 Early results and toxicity profile of Glioblastoma multiforme patients treated with hypofractionated Radiotherapy along with concurrent Temozolomide. - Nilaxi Khataniar (Fortis Memorial Research institute)

15:40 Biomarker predictors of radiotherapy response in head and neck tumors - Misleidy Nápoles Morales (INOR)

15:45 Treatment options in resource sparing setting for post-prostatectomy salvage radiotherapy: biochemical nadir and toxicity results from a non-randomized observational study - Fröbe Ana (Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine University Hospital Center Sestre Milosrdnice University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb, Croatia)

15:50 Features of 18-FDG PET/CT application for recurrence detection, radiation therapy planning and its effectiveness monitoring in patients with tumors of the anorectal localization - Oksana Solodyannikova (National institute of cancer)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Comparison of points and volumetric doses using CT and MR images for 3D planning brachytherapy: A Brazilian experience - Camila Pessoa de Sales (Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo)

15:35 Age and insulin levels in breast cancer women and healthy women - Alkhansa Mahmoud (Sudan Atomic Energy Commission)

15:40 Breast cancer recurrence monitoring a corroding to tumour subtypes: Role of serum tumour markers CA 15-3 and CEA using radioimmunoassay - Alkhansa Mahmoud (Sudan Atomic Energy Commission)

15:45 Hypofractionated conformal radiotherapy and chemotheapy in treatment of malignant gliomas - Dana Michaela Cernea (Oncology Institute "Prof. Dr. ION CHIRICUTA")

15:50 Neutron-gamma mixed field dosimetry on a child phantom under therapeutic proton irradiation using TL dosimeters - Bhaskar Mukherjee
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Survival and prognostic factors in non metastatic breast cancer - Semia ZARRAA

15:35 Comparative study of two techniques for spinalcord irradiation with 3D conformational planning - Milena Sereno (Hospital Heliopolis) Valeria Ferreira (Hospital Heliopolis)

15:40 Prevention and treatment of acute radiation injuries of the head and neck region - Nerses Karamyan (Radiation Oncologist, National Centre of Oncology, Armenia)

15:45 Evaluation of BEBIG HDR+® dose optimization methods: A case study of HDR brachytherapy cervical plans - Ismail ZERGOUG (Radiotherapy department-EHSO Emir Abdelkader Oran)

15:50 Evaluation of radiation doses to organs at risk and comparison the toxicity with application of modern techniques radiotherapy of treatment patients for prostate cancer - Olena Safronova (Clinical Hospitale "Feofaniya")
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Impact on dose and volume on irradiated brain on recurrence and survival of patients with glioblastoma multiformae - Igor Stojkovski (University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology)

15:35 An audit of nasopharyngeal rapidArc radiotherapy planning against ICRU 83 target volume homogeneity and conformity guidelines: a single center study - 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.)

15:40 Conformal and intensity modulated radiotherapy in head and neck cancer in South America - Martha Cotes (Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Bogotá)

15:45 Potential biomarkers for personalized oncology radiation in uterine cervical cancer - Pablo Moreno-Acosta (Research Group in Radiobiology Clinical, Molecular and Cellular, National Cancer Institute, Bogota, Colombia)

15:50 Feasibility of 27 Gray in 5 daily fractions adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer ladies – 1st report from an Iraqi institution - Kamaran A. Mohammad (Zhianawa Cancer Center)
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 IAEA Education and Training activities in Radiotherapy - Giorgia Loreti (IAEA)

16:10 ESTRO - School - Richard Poetter

16:20 ICTP, Trieste University, italian and croatian medical physics: a training opportunity for young physicists from developing countries - Renato Padovani (ICTP)

16:30 Accreditation of education and professional standards of medical physicists - Kin Yin Cheung (International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP))

16:40 Addressing global radiation medicine human resource gaps through educational innovation - Meredith Giuliani (Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)

16:50 Implementation of the Brazil’s National Training Program for Radiotherapy Technicians - Preliminary results - Tania Furquim (Cancer Foundation)

17:00 Competency-based education of RTT’s in Romania: changing the paradigm to prepare the future - Ioan Valentin CERNEA (University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu" Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA)

17:10 Competency based education and training in radiation oncology - Daniel Scanderbeg (University of California, San Diego)

17:20 International Radiotherapy Plan Competition: A step towards better planning and global transfer of knowledge - Ahmad Nobah (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre)

17:30 Questions and answers
Wednesday, 21 June 2017
07:30
07:30 - 09:00
Room: M3
Contributions

07:30 Revisiting ICRU volume definitions - Eduardo Rosenblatt (IAEA)

07:50 How to incorporate clinical information and natural tumor history in CTV definition - Kenneth Hu

08:10 ITV and PTV margins for IGRT - Joep Stroom

08:30 Autoplanning in the IGRT era - Ben Heijmen

08:50 Questions and answers
07:30 - 09:00
Contributions

07:30 Physics of small fields - Pedro Andreo (Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden)

08:10 Small field Code of Practice - Hugo Palmans

08:50 Questions and answers
07:30 - 09:00
Room: M2
Contributions

07:30 Radiation Knowledge Initiative - Ahmad Nobah

07:50 2017 Radiotherapy Plan Competition - Ahmad Nobah

08:15 Winners Announcements - Ahmad Nobah

08:25 Radiation Knowledge ... What's Next? - Ahmad Nobah

08:45 Questions and answers
09:00

09:00 - 10:30
Room: M2
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Recent advances and current status of radiotherapy for breast cancerCurrent status of radiotherapy for breast cancer - Gerard Hanna

09:20 Left breast radiation therapy - institutional analysis of doses to heart and LAD - Borislava Petrovic (Institute of oncology Vojvodina, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia)

09:28 “Hybrid” 3D/VMAT technique for irradiation of patients with breast cancer and unfavorable anatomy. Preliminary dosimetric study. - Cecilia Maria Kalil Haddad (Sirio Libanes Hospital)

09:36 Recent advances and current status of radiotherapy for cervix cancer - Richard Poetter

09:56 Nodal doses during image-guided adaptive brachytherapy for cervical cancer and implication to simultaneous integrated boost - Warren Bacorro (University of Santo Tomas Hospital - Benavides Cancer Institute)

10:03 Multi-institutional clinical studies of chemoradiotherapy for cervical cancer among Asian countries under the framework of Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia (FNCA) - Shingo Kato (Saitama Medical University, International Medical Centre)

10:11 Dose-volume effects in pathologic lymph nodes in cervical cancer - Warren Bacorro (University of Santo Tomas Hospital - Benavides Cancer Institute)

10:19 Questions and answers
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Brief summary of IAEA/AAPM small field Code of Practice - M. Saiful Huq (UPMC CancerCenter)

09:30 Initial experiences in testing: the IAEA/AAPM code of practice on small field dosimetry - Wolfgang Lechner (Department of Radiation Oncology, Division Medical Physics, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria)

09:40 Application of output correction factors for three small beam radiation detectors: comparison of results for a TrueBeam Stx linac - Jose Manuel LARRAGA-GUTIERREZ (Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia)

09:50 Application of the PTW microDiamond in small field dosimetry on different accelerators: Comparative measurements and Monte Carlo calculations - Maria Pimpinella (ENEA - National Institute of Ionizing Radiation Metrology, I-00123 Rome, Italy)

10:00 Monte Carlo calculated correction factors for nine detectors in Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion unit - Lalageh Mirzakhanian (McGill University, Medical Physics Unit, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada)

10:10 Influence of detector specific correction factors in dose distributions for small photon beams - Olivia Amanda GARCIA-GARDUÑO (Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia)

10:20 Nationwide audit of small fields output calculations in Poland - Wojciech Bulski (The Maria Skłodowska Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Novel aspects of application of cadmium telluride quantum dots nanostructures in radiation oncology - Seyed Yousef Fazaeli hoseini Nezhad (AEOI)

10:35 The use of hypofractionated radiotherapy after breast conservative surgery or mastectomy in Albanian women with breast cancer - Elvisa Kozma (Oncology Service, University Hospital Center Mother Theresa)

10:40 Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (ACHR) for gastric cancer - Elena Slobina (Russian Scientific Center of RoentgenoRadiology)

10:45 A study on safety and efficacy of hypofractionated radiotherapy in post-operative breast cancer patients - Kumiko Karasawa (Tokyo Women's Medical University)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Use of volumetric arc therapy for nodal boosting in cervical cancer radiotherapy. - Kamal Akbarov

10:35 Clinical implementation of intracranial stereotactic radiotherapy with non dedicated linear accelerator in a developing country: the cuban experience - Ivonne Chon Rivas (INOR)

10:40 Development of a BNCT facility based on axial Deuterium–Deuterium (D–D) neutron generator using MCNP code - kaouther BERGAOUI (National Center of Nuclear Sciences and Technologies)

10:45 Mathematical modeling and optimization of radiation therapy dose-time treatment scheme - Aleksandr Meniailo (A. Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Centre - branch of the National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation)

10:50 Intensity modulated radiotherapy benefits comparing to conventional radiotherapy for locally recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma - Hend Daoud (Radiotherapy department of University Habib Bourguiba Hospital)

10:55 An investigation of partial volumetric arc therapy versus 3D conformal radiation therapy for early stage larynx cancer - Nur KODALOGLU (Hacettepe University-Numune Research and Training Hospital)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Tunable compact monochromatic X-ray synchrotron radiation source based on inverse compton scattering for advanced radiological applications - Mostafa ELASHMAWY (Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority)

10:35 Novel hybrid pixel detector design for the use in continuous on-line dose monitoring in radiotherapy. - Gordon Neue (UJP PRAHA a.s.)

10:40 Characterization of a Cobalt-60 radiotherapy unit upgrade: BEST Theratronics T780C to Equinox100 - Chandra Joshi (Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario)

10:45 Standardisation of treatment planning in frameless stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy using volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) beams - Tharmarnadar GANESH (Fortis Memorial Research Institute)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Analysis of setup incertanties generated in 6D ExacTrac X-Ray system for patients in hypofractionated treatments of intracranial radiosurgery - Camila Pessoa de Sales (Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo)

10:35 Stereotactic body radiation therapy in a public oncologic hospital in Brazil: a five years experience - Julio Marcassa (Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo)

10:40 On the way to paperless – a multi-professional project in radiation therapy - Maria do Carmo LOPES (IPOCFG, E.P.E.)

10:45 Quality control, dosimetric measurement and clinical experience with intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) - Intrabeam device - Roberto Carlos CHUMBIMUNI CONTRERAS (ONCOSALUD)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Comparison of CT and PET-CT based gross tumor volume (GTV) and organs at risk (OAR) in IMRT of head and neck cancers: institutional experience - Mridul Anand (Gujarat Cancer Research Institute)

10:35 Dosimetric Influence of translational and rotational motion correction using a robotic couch in the linear accelerator based stereotactic radio surgery and radiotherapy dose delivery - Jayapriya Gupta (FMRI)

10:40 Enhancement of the biological effectiveness in the bragg peak: a nanodosimetric perspective - Sonwabile Ngcezu (National Metrology Institute of South Africa & University of Witwatersrand)

10:45 Planning study of comparison of dose in target volumes and volumes of organs at risk in patients with high grade glioma. Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy versus Three-dimensional Conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT). - Igor Stojkovski (University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology)

10:55 Dosimetric optimization of BATD-3D interstitial prostate treatments with 60Co and Multi-image technique - Gustavo Sarria Bardales (ONCOSALUD - RED AUNA)
11:00
11:00 - 11:45
Room: M3
Contributions

11:00 Personalized radiotherapy - Soren Bentzen

11:30 Discussion, Q&A
11:00 - 12:30
Room: M1
Contributions

11:00 The critical importance of high quality radiation therapy - Kry Stephen F.

11:15 IAEA experiences with QUATRO audits - Joanna Izewska (International Atomic Energy Agency)

11:30 Quality Assurance Team for Radiation Oncology (QUATRO): The National Center for Cancer Care & Research (NCCCR) experience - Adam Charles Shulman (Hamad Medical Corporation)

11:40 Quality Assurance Team for Radiation Oncology (QUATRO) audit to the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia: example of good impact on the development of radiotherapy in the institution - Suzana Stojanovic-Rundic (Department of Radiotherapy, Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia; Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade)

11:50 Moving a large and complex radiotherapy department: a medical physics perspective - Tomas Kron (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre)

12:00 IT safety requirements in the Radiation Therapy field: risks and solutions all over the process - Maxime Coevoet (Cliniques universitaires St-Luc)

12:10 Cost-effective public procurements of equipment for radiotherapy: starting point of patient's safety - Božidar Casar (Institute of Oncology Ljubljana)

12:20 Quality of radiotherapy services in post-soviet countries: an IAEA survey - Eduardo Rosenblatt (IAEA)
11:45
11:45 - 12:30
Room: M3
Contributions

11:45 Introduction to the treatment of Oligometastases - Felipe Calvo

11:50 Imaging and treatment delivery from a Medical Physics perspective. - M. Saiful Huq (UPMC CancerCenter)

12:05 Treatment delivery and clinical evidence for the treatment of oligometastases - Gerard Hanna

12:20 Discussion
12:30
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M3
Contributions

12:30 ASTRO on H&N cancer - Kenneth Hu
Motion Management in External Beam Radiotherapy
Motion Management in External Beam Radiotherapy
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M1
Contributions

12:30 Introductory remarks - Brendan Healy (International Atomic Energy Agency)

12:35 Vendor presentation (Elekta)

12:55 Vendor presentation (Varian)

13:15 Vendor presentation (TBD)

13:35 Discussion

13:55 Concluding remarks
Image-Guided Brachytherapy
Image-Guided Brachytherapy
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M2
Contributions

12:30 Introductory remarks - Alfredo Polo (IAEA)

12:35 Varian

12:55 Elekta

13:15 Bebig

13:35 Discussion

13:55 Concluding remarks - Tomislav Bokulic (Dosimetry Laboratory, DMRP, NAHU, IAEA)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: M1
Contributions

14:00 Panellist - William Mackillop

14:10 Panellist - Kennedy Lishimpi

14:20 Panellist - YAVUZ ANACAK (EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE)

14:30 Panellist - Karen Christaki (IAEA)

14:40 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: M3
Contributions

14:00 ESTRO - Yolande Lievens

14:13 JASTRO - Takashi Nakano (Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine)

14:21 UICC - Mary Evans-Gospodarowicz

14:29 ABS - Surbhi Grover

14:37 FARO - Soehartati Gondhowiardjo

14:45 SEAROG - Francis Chin

14:53 AFROG - Lotfi Kochbati

15:01 ASTRO - Kenneth Hu

15:09 ALATRO - Hugo Marsiglia

15:17 OMC - Tomas Cobo

15:25 Discussion
15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Contributions

15:00 Imaging for planning and treatment delivery in EBRT - Tomas Kron

15:25 Questions and answers
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Electro-hyperthermia as a radiosensitiser for locally advanced HIV positive and negative cervical cancer patients in South Africa - Carrie Minnaar (University of the Witwatersrand)

15:35 Dose distribution characteristics and initial clinical results of two different dynamic tracking techniques for stereotactic body radiation therapy for solitary lung tumors - Katsuyuki Karasawa (Dept. of Radiology, Tokyo Metro. Cancer and Infectious Diseases Ctr. Komagome Hospital)

15:40 MRTDosimetry - Metrology for clinical implementation of dosimetry in molecular radiotherapy - Hannah Wiedner (BEV)

15:45 Uncertainties in measuring absorbed dose from a low-energy miniature X-ray source - Peter Watson (McGill University)

15:50 Can desktop 3D printers be used to build patient specific heterogeneous phantoms for QA purposes? - Ahmad Nobah (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre)

15:55 Evaluation of IGRT techniques in prostate cancer patients with registration of bony anatomy and implanted gold markers - Barbara Bencsik (National Institute of Oncology)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Comparison of two techniques for irradiation of the breast and the regional lymphatics - helical tomotherapy and 3D conformal radiotherapy - Neli Gesheva-Atanasova (National Hospital of Oncology)

15:35 Multiple brain metastases treatment, dosimetric comparison of IMRT vs VMAT, is there any gain? - David Antonio Martinez Perez (Radiation Oncology Department, Medical Resident, Oncosalud, AUNA - Lima, Peru) Gustavo Sarria Bardales (Radiation Oncology Department, Principal Professor; Oncosalud, AUNA - Lima, Peru)

15:40 The “CLAWS” – An applicator for whole-eye radiotherapy - Christoph Trauernicht (Groote Schuur Hospital)

15:45 Planning implementation of a hybrid VMAT (H-VMAT) in radiation therapy treatments of head and neck cancer cases; a dosimetric comparison with IMRT and VMAT; should we move on? - Bertha GARCIA (RED AUNA - Clinica Delgado)

15:50 Implementation of IMRT technique in treatment of prostate cancer Experience of oncology radiotherapy department of Habib Bourguiba Hospital - Hend Daoud

15:55 Dosimetric evaluation of dose distributions delivered to an in-house developed respiratory chest phantom - Paola Caprile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Dosimetric evaluation of newly developed well-type ionization chamber for use in the calibration of brachytherapy sources - Sathiyan Saminathan (Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology)

15:35 Evaluation of metallic implant artefact on photon beam calculation algorithms: a study using CIRS thorax phantom - George Felix Acquah (Sweden Ghana Medical Centre)

15:40 Workshop summary - Design characteristics of novel radiotherapy technology for challenging environments: improving access to radiotherapy - David Jaffray (University Health Network)

15:45 Frameless volumetric intracraneal stereotactic radiosurgery with non coplanar arcs: clinical experience, accuracy and dosimetric evaluation - Bertha GARCIA (RED AUNA - CLINICA DELGADO)

15:50 Evaluation and validation of the Fast Superposition, Superposition and FFT Convolution algorithms for IMRT of low density treatment sites on CMS XiO Treatment Planning System. - Walter Nyakodzwe (The Cancer Center Bahamas)

15:55 Is there a role for Cobalt-60 radiation therapy in the world - L. John Schreiner (Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario at KGH)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Radiobiological effects of cisplatin in carbon-irradiated cancer and bystander normal cells: the involvement of gap junction communication and NRF2 antioxidant system - Narongchai Autsavapromporn (Chiang Mai University)

15:35 Leakage radiation of ARTISTE LINAC machine - Fatemeh Akbari (Department of medical physics, Reza Radiation Oncology Center, Mashhad, Iran)

15:40 A novel technique for postal intercomparison of beam Quality Assurance criterion of Proton Therapy facilities using radiochromic film EBT3 - Bhaskar Mukherjee

15:45 The effect of high energy photons emitted from cobalt - 57 source on extrinsic uniformity test - Nur KODALOGLU (Hacettepe University-Numune Research and Training Hospital)

15:50 Abscopal effects with non-ionizing radiation - Oliver Szasz (St. Istvan University, Biotechnics Department)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Electrometers intercomparison using ionization chamber and radioactive check source - Attila SARVARI (Institute of Oncology Ljubljana)

15:35 Low dose-rate prostate brachytherapy: do different seeds manufacturers matters? - Cecilia Maria Kalil Haddad (Sirio Libanes Hospital)

15:40 Audit of VMAT delivery techniques in the Baltic States - Eduard Gershkevitsh (North Estonia Medical Centre)

15:45 Establishment of National Radiotherapy audit program at NMISA. - Humbulani Vincent Maselesele

15:50 Image comparison of 3 different known geometrical shapes contoured on different imaging modalities on a phantom for stereotactic frameless procedure of AVM - Tharmar Ganesh (Fortis Memorial Research Institute Gurgaon Haryana)

15:55 Clinical implementation from the regional (AFRA) training course on quality assurance of record and verify systems - George Felix Acquah (Sweden Ghana Medical Centre)
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 PET-CT for radiotherapy planning in lung cancer: current recommendations and future directions - Gerard Hanna

16:25 The role of the radiation therapist (RTT) in image guided radiotherapy (IGRT) - Michelle Leech

16:50 Image registration methodology to quantify ROIS’ volume transform accuracy - Graciela R. VELEZ (Hospital Oncologico Cordoba)

17:00 Feasibility of prompt gamma imaging for passive-scatter proton radiotherapy treatments - Jeyasingam Jeyasugiththan (Department of Nuclear Science, University of Colombo)

17:10 Digital portal imaging in Cobalt-60 radiation therapy - L. John Schreiner (Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario at KGH)

17:20 Discussion, Q&A
16:00 - 17:50
Contributions

16:00 ICEC - Norman Coleman

16:10 IARC - Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan

16:20 ESTRO (Physics) - Nuria Jornet

16:30 AAPM - M. Saiful Huq (UPMC CancerCenter)

16:40 IMPCB - Tomas Kron (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre)

16:50 IOMP - Kin Yin Cheung

17:00 EFOMP - Stefano Gianolini

17:10 MPWB - Jacob Van Dyk (Departments of Oncology and Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada)

17:20 FAMPO - FRANCIS HASFORD (Ghana Atomic Energy Commission)

17:30 ALFIM - Rodolfo Alfonso Laguardia

17:40 Discussion

17:45 Questions and answers
Thursday, 22 June 2017
07:30
07:30 - 09:00
Room: M3
Contributions

07:30 Introduction to brachytherapy, history, and indications - Christine Haie-Meder

07:55 Image-guided brachytherapy in cervical cancer – Clinical aspects - Richard Poetter

08:25 Image guided adaptive brachytherapy (in cervix cancer) – Physical aspects - Christian Kirisits

08:50 Questions and answers
07:30 - 09:00
Contributions

07:30 Organising QA management in a radiotherapy department-Involvement of different professions - Pierre Scalliet

08:05 Looking at whole department workflows and evaluate potential issues - Eric Ford

08:40 QA developments with examples to modern techniques - Geoffrey Ibbott

08:50 Questions and answers
07:30 - 09:00
Contributions

07:30 Clinical Background - Beth Beadle (Stanford University)

07:45 Automated treatment planning - Laurence Court

08:15 Evaluation of workflow & plan quality (feedback) - Beth Beadle (Stanford University) Laurence Court

08:45 Questions and answers
09:00

09:00 - 10:30
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Overview of radiotherapy for prostate cancer - Mack Roach

09:25 Carbon Ion Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer; a nationwide survey of the Japan Carbon-ion Radiation Oncology Study Group (J-CROS 1501) - Hidemasa Kawamura (Gunma University)

09:35 Overview of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer - Kenneth Hu

10:00 Treatment of Head and Neck cancers with modulated radiation at an Indian Centre - Tejinder KATARIA (Chairperson, Radiation Oncology, Medanat the Medicity)

10:10 Matrix metalloproteinaise I (MMP-1) levels as a predictive marker of oral mucositis severity among head and neck carcinoma patients undergoing radiotherapy - Jerickson Abbie Flores (Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center)

10:20 Questions and answers
09:00 - 10:30
Room: M1
Contributions

09:00 Dosimetry audits in radiotherapy: IAEA perspective - Joanna Izewska (International Atomic Energy Agency)

09:15 Credentialling of Advanced Radiotherapy Technology: An Independent Peer Review Process - David Followill (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

09:30 Effective and efficient radiotherapy dosimetry audit: Where to next? - Catharine Clark

09:45 Plan quality monitoring: treatment planning and delivery - Nuria Jornet

10:00 Polymer gel dosimetry: a promising 3D quality assurance tool for magnetic resonance-image guided radiotherapy - Yvonne Roed (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

10:15 SRS in Tomotherapy: What we gain, what we lose comparing to Linac based SRS? - Maria do Carmo LOPES (IPOCFG, E.P.E.)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Quality control procedure forlinear accelerator multileaf collimators in radiotherapy - Ayron Rule (SAAPMB: Department of Health: Eastern Cape)

10:35 Evaluation of tumor motion interplay effect on dose distribution in stereotactic radiotherapy - Fatemeh Ebrahimi

10:40 Medical physics audit of radiotherapy centres in Ghana - Francis HASFORD (Ghana Atomic Energy Commission)

10:45 Proposal of a simplified procedure for the commissioning of AAA and Acuros photons calculations algorithms for Varian accelerators. - Michel Van Dycke (Clinique Saint Jean, Brussels)

10:50 The implementation of CREX in the department of radiotherapy - Jamel DAOUD (CHU Habib Bourguiba. Sfax. Tunisie) Tarek SAHNOUN (CHU Habib Bourguiba. Sfax. Tunisie)

10:55 Validation of a novel dosimetry application for measuring the calibration curve of Gafchromic Films - Anthony Cordero Ramirez (CCSS)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Film2Dose: an research intended tool to access the combined standard uncertainty on radiochromic film dosimetry using multi-channel optimization. - Victor Gabriel Leandro Alves (INCA)

10:35 Commissioning and validation of total skin electron therapy (TSET) - Reena Devi Phurailatpam (ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre)

10:40 An evaluation of the portal dosimetry and arccheck systems for VMAT pre-treatment patient QA plan verification - Marin Bodale (Medical Physics Center Iasi & Romanian College of Medical Physicists (CFMR))

10:45 Commissioning and validation of Total Body Irradiation (TBI) in Varian True Beam linear accelerator (LA) - Siji Nojin Paul (ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre)

10:50 End-to-end test and TPS QA using heterogeneous anthropomorphic phantom - Tatiana Krylova (N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center)

10:55 Quality audit of IMRT treatment using EBT3 film and RPL glass dosimetry system - David Alonso (National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology) Jose Luis Alonso Samper (National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Project to implement an OSL Dosimetry System in Argentina - Analia Demuru (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica)

10:35 New IAEA end-to-end on-site IMRT audit methodology: Pilot test results - Pavel Kazantsev (International Atomic Energy Agency)

10:40 End-to-end audit tests for advanced radiotherapy treatment modalities involving patient-specific 3D dosimetry phantoms - Evangelos Pappas (Department of Radiology and Radiotherapy, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece)

10:45 Evaluation of dosimetric controls for patients treated with IMRT for a prostate cancer - Tarek Sahnoun

10:50 UV versus MV irradiation response of 3D dosimeters - Geoffrey Ibbott (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)

10:55 Multileaf collimator testing – a nationwide audit in Poland - Krzysztof Chelminski (The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Medical Physics Department)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Measurement of the percentage dose at surface with radiochromic films - Olga Galvan (Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia)

10:35 Normal tissue complication probability calculation in normal and hypo-fractionated radiotherapy of head & neck tumors - Carlos Fabian Calderon Marin (Oncology and Radiobiology Institute (INOR))

10:40 Radiobiological modeling and treatment planning for sequential and concurrent combination of internal and external radiotherapy modalities - Carlos Fabián Calderón Marín (Oncology and Radiobiology Institute (INOR))

10:45 Toxicity of radical radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy in HIV positive and negative women treated for locally advanced cervical cancer - Joseph Brown Mugambe Kigula (Mulago National Referral Hospital)

10:50 Implementation of the IAEA-TECDOC-1583 with IMRT and VMAT test plans as a dosimetric verification for AAA and Acuros XB algorithms using heterogeneous phantom - Ahmad Nobah (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre)

10:55 Development and refinement of the canadian national system for incident reporting in radiation treatment (NSIR-RT) - John Kildea (McGill University Health Centre)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Comparison of the equivalent uniform dose (EUD) in prostate cancer for target and organ at risk (OARs) between 3D+IMRT and IMRT treatment techniques - Muhammad Aqeel Hussain (Northwest General hospital & Reseacrch Centre)

10:35 Biological dose estimation for different photon beam qualities used in radiation oncology - Gyöngyi Farkas (Clinical Department of Radiobiology and Oncocytogenetics, Centre of Radiotherapy, National Institute of Oncology)

10:40 First conclusions regarding the validation of an automated micronucleus counting microscope based on samples from prostate tumorous patients - Tímea Hülber (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

10:45 In silico model of radiotherapy treatment outcome for different fractionation schemes considering dynamic biological processes - Daniella Fabri (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Rosario Astaburuaga (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

10:50 A Delta TCP tool, based on biological parameters of tumor voxels, to quantify effectiveness of different dose distributions in tumor control - Daniella Fabri (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

10:55 Applied radiation biology and radiotherapy coordinated research projects of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - Oleg Belyakov (IAEA)
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: M1
Contributions

11:00 Panellist - Jacob Van Dyk (Departments of Oncology and Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada)

11:10 Panelist - Paul Ravindran Babu Rao (Christian Medical College)

11:20 Panelist - George Felix Acquah (Sweden Ghana Medical Centre)

11:30 Panelist - Soehartati Gondhowiardjo

11:40 Discussion

11:55 Questions and answers
12:00
12:00 - 13:00
Contributions

12:00 In favour: Radiation oncologist perspectives - Pierre Scalliet

12:10 Against: Radiation oncologist perspectives - Bhadrasain Vikram

12:15 In favour: Medical physicists perspectives - Ben Heijmen

12:20 Against: Medical physicists perspectives - Debbie van der Merwe (University of the Witwatersrand)

12:25 Discussion

12:55 Questions and answers
13:00
13:00 - 14:30
Room: M3
Contributions

13:00 ESTRO on contouring breast cancer - Sofia Rivera
13:00 - 14:30
Room: M2
Contributions

13:00 Scope of telemedicine in the context of radiotherapy - Norman Coleman

13:15 Chart round experience - Patricia Hardenbergh

13:30 Web-based contouring and plan evaluation within the framework of IAEA’s Coordinated Research Projects - Kirsten Hopkins (IAEA)

13:45 AFRONET: a network of consultation in radiation oncology for Africa - Lotfi Kochbati (Radiation Oncology)

14:00 Discussion, Q&A
Building a paperless RT department - challenges
Building a paperless RT department - challenges
13:00 - 14:30
Room: M1
Contributions

13:00 Introductory remarks - Brendan Healy (International Atomic Energy Agency)

13:05 Varian (vendor + user)

13:45 Elekta (vendor + user)

14:25 Discussion, QA
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Room: M1
Contributions

14:35 Panelist - 1 - Francesco Cellini

14:40 Panelist - 2 - Debbie van der Merwe (University of the Witwatersrand)

14:45 Panelist - 3 - Eugen Hug

14:50 Panelist - 4 - Tadashi Kamada

14:55 Discussion

15:25 Questions and answers
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Patient-specific quality assurance evaluation for stereotactic volumetric modulated arc delivery using 6FFF beams - Taweap Sanghangthum (Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, THAILAND)

15:35 Measurement of fast neutron contamination caused by presence of wedge and block by CR-39 detector - Mohammad Taghi Bahreyni Toossi (Medical Physics Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran)

15:40 Dosimetric measurements for small circular cones of a Stereotactic linear accelerator - Paul Ravindran Babu Rao (Christian Medical College)

15:45 Dose Evaluation of the AAA for small, Large and Asymmetric fields with a 6MV Photon Energy - Emmanuel Worlali FIAGBEDZI (NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (CRO))

15:50 Harambee: tuning african brain drain to gain in global radiation oncology using information and communication technology - Ernest Okonkwo (Ortenau Klinikum Offenburg-Gengenbach)

15:55 Africa radiation oncology network (AFRONET): an IAEA pilot telemedicine project for anglophone Africa - Rajiv Prasad (IAEA)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Saturation correction for ionisation chambers at different DPP - Stefan Odreitz-Stark (LKH Univ. Klinikum Graz, Dept. of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology)

15:35 Conversion of measured percentage depth dose to Tissue maximum ratio values in the small fields: Is it worth? - Ehab Attalla (Children’s Cancer Hospital, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt)

15:40 Empirical model for phantom scatter for small beam dosimetry in different density media - Saad Attawneh (King Hussein Cancer Center)

15:45 Accuracy in clinical small field data - Zakithi Lungile Mpumelelo Msimang (National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA) and Wits University)

15:50 Evaluation of treatment planning systems using in-house software “Eat Pie” - Thomas Konrad (LKH Univ Klinikum Graz, Dept. of Therapuetic Radiology and Oncology)

15:55 Peripheral dose of moving target simulation using In-House dynamic thorax phantom - Supriyanto Pawiro (Universitas Indonesia)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Characterization of a portal imager Amorphous Silicon Portal Vision aS 1000 for in vivo dosimetry for IMRT - Aicha Maachou (Centre de Recherche Nucléaire d'Alger)

15:40 The correction factors estimated for small field’s dosimetry by using 6 and 18MV energies of a linear accelerator using on radiation oncology unit - Seyed Ali Rahimi (Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences)

15:45 Treatment plan stability to geometric uncertainties. PTV and CTV related dose-volume statistics comparison for 3D CRT, IMRT and VMAT irradiation of the «average» prostate patient in N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus. - Egor Titovich (N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus)

15:50 Analysis of dose deposition in lung lesions: a modified PTV for a more robust optimization. - Angelo Filippo MONTI (Ospedale Niguarda - Milan, Italy)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Establishment of Radiotherapy Calibration Facility at the SSDL of KFSH&RC - Omar Noor (KFSHRC)

15:35 Testing the IAEA/AAPM code of practice on small field dosimetry at KFSHRC: preliminary results - Mehenna Arib (King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre)

15:40 In vivo dosimetry for kilovoltage X-ray Radiotherapy - Albin Garcia Andino (ALFIM) David Alonso (National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology)

15:45 Reduction of signal quenching in PRESAGE® dosimeters irradiated with protons - Geoffrey Ibbott (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

15:50 The use of MAGIC-f gel to perform RTP clinical checks, a first approach - Yanai Krutman (Soroka University Medical Center)
15:30 - 16:00
Contributions

15:30 Comparison of various radiation therapy techniques in breast cancer with inclusion of internal mammary nodes by use of a RANDO phantom and thermoluminescent dosimeter - Mohammad Taghi Bahreyni Toossi (Mashhad University of Medical Sciences)

15:35 Optimisation of protection in breast mamamography - Hadijah NDAGIRE

15:40 Dosimetric verification of the small field dose calculation using Acuros XB dose algorithm for heterogeneous media. - Abdelkader Toutaoui (Départment de Physique Médicale et de Radioprotection, Hôpital Chahids Mahmoudi, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria)

15:45 Dosimetric verification of the small field calculation using Acuros XB dose algorithm for homogeneous and heterogeneous media. - Abdelkader Toutaoui (Départment de Physique Médicale et de Radioprotection, Hôpital Chahids Mahmoudi, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria)

15:50 Beam quality index for arbitrary reference fields. - Yury Kirpichev (CRT "Oncostop")

15:55 A simplified approach of measuring beam attenuation through treatment couch and immobilization devices using electronic portal imaging devices - Sivananthan Sarasanandarajah (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia)
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: M1
Contributions

16:10 Improving quality and safety using the TG100 approach - M. Saiful Huq (UPMC CancerCenter)

16:30 What can we learn from incident learning in the US? - Eric Ford

16:50 The Bonn Call for Action and International perspective on patient safety - the good and the bad - Debbie Gilley (IAEA)

17:10 What more do we need to do in radiotherapy safety? - Peter Dunscombe

17:30 Discussion, Q&A
Friday, 23 June 2017
07:30
07:30 - 09:00
Room: M3
Contributions

07:30 The mechanisms of "deterministic" radiation effects - Wolfgang Doerr

08:00 Radiation Related Effects on the Heart - Jan Wondergem

08:30 Radiogenomics - Soren Bentzen

08:50 Questions and answers
07:30 - 09:00
Room: M1
Contributions

07:35 Lecture - 1 - Kenneth Hu

08:00 Lecture - 2 - M. Saiful Huq

08:25 Lecture - 3 - Michelle Leech

08:50 Concluding remarks - Kirsten Hopkins (IAEA)
07:30 - 09:00
Room: M1
Contributions

07:30 1- ICRU Report 89: Prescribing, Recording, and Reporting Brachytherapy for Cancer of the Cervix - Christian Kirisits (Medical University of Vienna)

08:00 2- ICRU Report 91: Prescribing, Recording, and Reporting Stereotactic Treatments with Small Photo Beams - Jan Seuntjens (McGill University)

08:30 Discussion and QA - Karen Christaki (IAEA)
09:00

09:00 - 11:00
Room: M2
09:00 - 10:30
Room: M1
Contributions

09:00 Global gap in access to Radiotherapy - Tracey Lui (Techna Institute, University Health Network)

09:15 GTFRCC: where to go from here? - Yolande Lievens

09:30 Costs and needs of radiotherapy: a regional perspective - Eduardo Zubizarreta (Section Head ARBR - NAHU - IAEA)

09:45 From the ground up’ – tackling challenges at the country level - Surbhi Grover

10:00 Access to radiotherapy: cancer-specific approaches to a global problem - Danielle Rodin

10:15 Concluding remarks, QA
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Expertise mobilization: addressing the medical physics gap - Jacob Van Dyk (Departments of Oncology and Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada)

10:35 Education and training of professionals in radiation oncology in Asia: the challenge in diversity - Miriam Joy Calaguas (Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center - Department of Radiotherapy)

10:40 Issues & challenges of medical physicists in Nepal - Kanchan P. Adhikari (National Academy of Medical Sciences, Bir Hospital)

10:45 Methodology for acquisition of appropriate technology for radiation therapy in developing countries - Kin Yin Cheung (International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP))

10:50 Workload patterns in the department of radiotherapy in Salah Azaiez Institute : year 2012 - Lotfi KOCHBATI Semia ZARRAA
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Evaluation and quantification of long-term results of the Technical Cooperation Project - BRA/6/023 – IAEA - Cecilia Haddad (Hospital Sírio Libanes)

10:35 Accreditation of medical physics clinical training programmes in Africa: survey by the Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations (FAMPO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - Francis HASFORD (Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations)

10:40 Accessibility of radiotherapy in 16 asian countries: current update on the existing scenario - Angela Gaerlan (St. Luke's Medical Center, Bonifacio Global City)

10:45 Medical physics education and training in Bangladesh - An overview - Md. Nahid Hossain (Principal Scientific Officer, National Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (NINMAS), Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC))

10:50 Three years of practicing Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) in a war-torn country – 1st report from an Iraqi institution - Layth Yahya Mula-Hussain (Zhianawa Cancer Center - Kurdistan Board for Medical Specialties) Shwan Ali (Zhianawa Cancer Center)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Metachronous cancers in patients with survival greater than 5 years - Monica-Emilia Chirila (Institute of Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine Department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

10:35 Present status of medical physics education in Bangladesh - Md Akhtaruzzaman (Medical Physics Department, The Maria Sklodowska Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.)

10:40 National training program for radiation oncology with the technical support of IAEA: encouraging experience of Bangladesh - Afm Kamaluddin (Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, National Institute of ENT)

10:45 Impact of international networking on advancing radiation oncology training in a war-torn country – experience from Iraq - Layth Y. I. Mula-Hussain (Zhianawa Cancer Center - Kurdistan Board for Medical Specialties)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 The role of low dose rate brachytherapy for carcinoma of the cervix at Zaria, Nigeria - Tajudeen Ayodeji Olasinde (Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria)

10:35 Improving of the training programs for medical physicists and engineers in N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus - Egor Titovich (N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus)

10:40 Carbon-ion radiotherapy for prostate cancer with bladder invasion - Tatsuji Mizukami (Gunma University Heavy Ion Medical Center)

10:45 Need for competency-based radiation oncology education from a global health perspective - Eduardo Rosenblatt (IAEA)

10:50 The role of radiation therapy in the schedule of the medical physics MSc course of BME University - Csilla Pesznyak (BME Institute of Nuclear Techniques)
10:30 - 11:00
Contributions

10:30 Specificity of fast neutron therapy. Is it necessary to restore projects in fast neutron irradiation - Oksana Kozak (Region Oncology Hospital)

10:35 Patterns of practice of radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy in Africa for gastrointestinal cancers - An audit - Vinay Sharma (: Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

10:40 High-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy with iridium-192 for localized stage prostate cancer treated at a panamanian single-center: treatment description and preliminary results - Keith R. BRITTON (CIRRO)

10:45 Implementation of the brazilian national education program on radiotherapy – Professional master degree on medical physics - Alfonso Varela M (Brazilian Cancer Foundation)

10:50 International cooperation of radiation oncology in RCA Asia - Takashi Nakano (Department of Radiation Oncology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine)
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Introdiction to combined therapies - Felipe Calvo

11:20 Chemoradiation in hiv positive patients with FIGO stage IIIB cancer of the uterine cervix - Albert Nyamhunga (Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals)

11:30 Skin reaction to cetuksimab (CMb) as a criterion for treatment selection in patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LASCCHN): results of prospective study - Primož Strojan (Institute of Oncology Ljubljana)

11:40 A new multidisciplinary treatment strategy for advanced rectal cancer: a chemo-radiotherapy with a new radio-sensitizer infusion by endoscopic guide. - Shiro Obata (Nagasaki Prefecture Shimabara Hospital)

11:50 Discussion, QA
11:00 - 12:00
Room: M3
Contributions

11:00 Implementation and clinical results of IGBT for cervical cancer: TMH experience - Umesh Mahantshetty

11:23 The use of phantom simulation for brachytherapy training and education - Tyler Meyer (Tom Baker Cancer Centre)

11:31 Interfraction variation in the target volume for accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) using intraoperative multicatheter interstitial brachytherapy and its dosimetric impact. - Ritu Raj UPRETI (Department of Medical Physics, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India)

11:39 Realization of the absorbed dose to water for electronic brachytherapy X-ray Sources - Thorsten Schneider (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB))

11:47 The results from the ultrasound and IBU-guided brachytherapy planning in locally advanced cervical carcinoma. - Egor Titovich (N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus)

11:54 Questions and answers
12:00
12:00 - 13:30
Room: M3
Contributions

12:00 ESTRO on contouring GYN cancer - Christine Haie-Meder (ESTRO) Sofia Rivera
12:00 - 13:30
Contributions

12:00 Welcome by PACT Chair

12:05 Financing radiotherapy in the context of national cancer control - Luca Li Bassi (IAEA)

12:25 Expanding radiotherapy access as part of the Cancer Control - Marina Darakhvelidze

12:45 Establishing radiotherapy in Zambia: mobilizing political action - Kennedy Lishimpi

13:05 Discussion, Q&A

13:25 Wrap up by the Chair
12:00 - 13:30
Contributions

12:00 Clinical research programme in RO: requirements and benefits - Soren Bentzen

12:15 What are the benefits if clinical research in radiation oncology? - Mack Roach (University of California, San Francisco)

12:30 Quality in clinical research - Catharine Clark

12:45 Challenges in LMI - Umesh Mahantshetty

13:00 Development of institutional clinical research programme - Shyam Shrivastava

13:15 Discussion
13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Room: M1
Contributions

13:30 Radiobiology - Jan Wondergem (LUMC)

13:45 Clinical Poster Highlights - Surbhi Grover

13:55 Physics Poster Highlights - M. Saiful Huq
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Contributions

14:30 Clinical Highlights - Tomoaki Tamaki (Fukushima Medical University)

14:45 Physics Highlights - David Followill

15:00 Closing remarks