Course Director
Erik Van Limbergen, Radiation Oncologist, UZ Gasthuisberg, Leuven (BE)
Teachers
Dimos Baltas, Physicist, Klinikum Offenbach, Offenbach (DE)
Christine Haie-Meder, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villeuif (FR)
Peter Hoskin, Radiation Oncologist, Mount Vernon Hospital, London (GB)
Local Organisers
Paulo Eduardo Ribeiro dos Santos Noaves , President of ALATRO (Asociacion Latinoamericana de Terapia Radiante Oncologica)
Carlos Manoel de Araujo, President of SBRT (Sociedade Brasileira da Radioterapia)
Heloisa de Andrade Carvalho, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo (BR)
Course aim
To cover the basis and general principles of brachytherapy: historical notes on evolution of brachytherapy, sources, afterloading systems, imaging for brachytherapy, dosimetry, radiobiology of different dose rates (LDR, HDR, PDR, and permanent implants), radioprotection, organisation of a brachytherapy department.
To discuss different technical & dosimetrical aspects of interstitial, endoluminal and endocavitary brachytherapy.
To discuss the main clinical subjects: mainly gynaecological (cervix, endometrium), urology (a.o. prostate seed implants), and applications of braachytherapy or benign diseases.
Target Group
The course is aimed primarily at South American trainees in radiotherapy, radiotherapists, radiation physicists and technologists willing to update themselves on the latest developments.
Educational programme
- Sources used in brachytherapy
- Physics and dose calculation
- Clinical radiobiology in brachytherapy: general principles and practical examples
- Radioprotection and afterloaders
- Optimisation of stepping source brachytherapy
- Permanent seed and HDR prostate implants
- Radiobiology of permanent implants
- Interstitial brachytherapy
- Place of brachytherapy in breast, gynaecological and prostate cancers
- Practical examples of interstitial, intracavitary, endoluminal brachytherapy for clinicians
- Practical exercises and interactive sessions for physicists