Brachytherapy in partial breast irradiation (APBI)
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09 Sep 2025
Course end
10 Sep 2025
Course length
2 days
Location
Tokushima University Hospital
Language
English
The purpose of this interactive masterclass is to learn more about the growing experience with Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) in order to help you embark on a new program of breast brachytherapy or help you further strengthen your existing program. Topics covered will include current data about patient selection, state of the art of target definition and delineation, physics aspects and specific breast brachytherapy techniques. Highlights of this course include live case demonstrations, hands-on catheters insertion and treatment planning, interactive sessions exploring the indications and use of various modalities of APBI. Given the faculty’s extensive and diverse experience in APBI, we present the latest breast brachytherapy data and actively engage you with debates on controversial issues regarding APBI.
Content
- Current status of breast cancer brachytherapy
- Patient selection and clinical results of APBI brachytherapy
- APBI techniques and pre-implant considerations
- Treatment planning methodologies based on image-guidance
- Team roles, logistics and infrastructure
- Hands-on planning and implantation (phantom)
- Live patient case in the OR
Language
The workshop will be conducted in English with Japanese translation.
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- Vratislav Strnad, MD, PhD, Prof, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany (Chair)
- Johann Tang I-Hsiung, MD, Prof, MBBS, FRANZCR, FAMS, Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore (Chair)
- Takashi Kawanaka, MD, PhD, Tokushima University Hospital, Japan (Host)
- Taeko Kawanaka, MD, Japanese Red Cross Tokushima Hospital, Japan
- Tibor Major, PhD, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
- Yasufumi Shitakubo, Tokushima University Hospital, Japan
- Kanako Sakuragawa, Tokushima University Hospital, Japan
- Experience in brachytherapy
- Experience with Oncentra® Brachy, as this is the planning system used during the hands on session.
Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and radiation oncology residents practicing in the field of breast brachytherapy or wanting to set up breast brachytherapy. The faculty strongly advises multi-disciplinary teams per hospital to register!
Japan | Fee per participant: 50,000 Japanese Yen
Asia Pacific | Fee per participant: 350 Euro
The registration fee mentioned above includes a get-together dinner on Tuesday and beverages and lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday. The fee is exclusive of travel and hotel costs.