You are invited to attend a clinical workshop focused on improving your treatment planning and delivery skills using real-time Low Dose Rate (LDR) Prostate Seed Brachytherapy. This Brachytherapy solution offers a real-time workflow for LDR seed prostate brachytherapy. Seed placement and planning is performed under ultrasound guidance without patient movement. This workshop is interactive with observation of live cases
June 26-27, 2017
Cone Health
Greensboro, North Carolina
United States
Workshop Objectives:
- All Participants will have the opportunity to discuss:
- Practical insights into the seamless clinical workflow when delivering LDR prostate brachytherapy using real-time ultrasound guidance
- Their practical issues, constraints and solutions for implementing a real-time LDR prostate brachytherapy treatment
- Understand the benefits of Real-time Image Guided LDR prostate Brachytherapy with the following topics:
- Review patient selection criteria
- Seed Selection
- Differences between real-time and conventional LDR prostate brachytherapy workflows
- Interact with Faculty on the following:
- Best practices for seed placement
- See adaptive treatment planning using Ultrasound guidance
- Observe live case (if available)
- How to implement the clinical procedure, workflow and equipment into your practice
- Practice Treatment Planning and Optimization on Oncentra treatment planning systems
- Implementation aspects (training requirements, learning curve, milestones, workflow optimization, quality assurance)
- Physics and Quality Assurance
- Treatment planning and delivery
Intended Audience:
Each of the below individuals who wish to gain an integrated overview of all aspects of real-time Image-Guided LDR brachytherapy for prostate:
- Radiation Oncologists
- Urologists
- Radiologists
- Medical Physicists
- Brachytherapy Radiographers
Schedule:
June 26: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Lunch included)
June 27: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm (Breakfast & Lunch included)
Continuing Education (CE) Credits:
This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for approval of MPCEC hours. CME credits are NOT available for this meeting.
Event Capacity:
Only 8 seats are available for this workshop. Openings will be filled on a “first come, first served” basis.