A clinical workshop focused on improving your treatment planning and delivery skills with High Dose Rate Brachytherapy
CHUM – Centre Hopitalier De L’Universite de Montreal
Hopital Notre-Dame – Pavillion Lachapelle
1560 Sherbrooke Street East
Montreal, Quebec
Schedule
October 31st: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Lunch included)
November 1st: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm (Breakfast & Lunch included)
Workshop Objectives
Learning the benefits of Real-time prostate in comparison to CT-based procedure
- Participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts, see live cases, and practice on treatment planning systems
- Review of patient selection criteria and applicator selection
Integrated overview on the concept and practice of Real-time image-guided prostate implants and adaptive planning
- This workshop addresses all aspects (clinical, technical, implementation and hands-on) necessary for deciding how this treatment method will benefit your clinical practice
- After observing a live case, participants will focus on implementing the clinical procedure, workflow and equipment into their practice
Discuss with the faculty how this treatment modality can be successfully implemented into their clinical environment
- Clinical method and procedure (clinical indicators, live case, clinical results, procedure, workflow, infrastructure and equipment)
- Implementation aspects (training requirements, learning curve, milestones, workflow optimization, quality assurance)
- Hands-on experience with method and tooling using a real-time planning system
- Applicator assembly and preparation
- Simulation/imaging
- Treatment planning and delivery
- Physics and Quality Assurance
Reasons to Attend
- Live prostate case
- Clinical aspects (e.g. patient selection, clinical indicators, use of functional imaging, treatment planning, benefits of real-time ultrasound based procedure)
- Implementation aspects (e.g. workflow, quality assurance, milestones)
- Hands-on experience with method and system
Pre-requisite
Experience in prostate brachytherapy is desirable
Intended Participants
Each of the below individuals who wish to gain an integrated overview of all aspects of real-time Image-Guided HDR brachytherapy for prostate:
- Radiation Oncologists
- Urologists
- Radiologists
- Clinical Physicists
- Brachytherapy Radiographers
CE Credits
Elekta has applied to CAMPEP for 9 MPCEC hours.
Event Capacity
Only ten (10) seats are available for this workshop. Openings will be filled on a “first come, first served” basis.
