Course Director
Jan-Willmen Leer, Radiation Oncologist, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen (NL)
Teachers
Christopher Cottril, Radiation Oncologist, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (GB)
Bernard Dubray, Radiation Oncologist, Centre Henri Becquerel, Rouen, (FR)
Barbara Jereczek-Fossa, Radiation Oncologist, European Institue of Oncology, MIlano (IT)
Johannes Kaanders, Radiation Oncologist, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen (NL)
Jacob Lindegaard, Radiation Oncologist, University Hospital, Aarhus (DK)
Course aim
In this course, the state of the art of treatment with radiation oncology of major
tumour sites (breast, upper GI, prostate, rectum, lung, head and neck, cervix) and palliation will be discussed on basis of the evidence.
The format of the course will be a combination of lectures and case discussions.
In addition, the methodology of clinical research will be explained to understand how evidence based medicine is developed.
Finally, basic scientific skills, e.g. critical reading, writing and basic statistics are part of the course-program.
Target Group
This basic course is aimed primarily at trainee radiation oncologists and experienced radiation oncologists who want an update of their clinical knowledge.
Educational programme
The course will cover:
- General introduction to evidence-based medicine, objectives of treatment
- Imaging, target volume, fractionation, combined modalities
- How to interpret clinical data and trials, meta-analysis, statistics
- Prostate
- Lung cancer
- Rectal cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- Palliation
- Gynaecological cancer
- Breast cancer
- Upper GI