Programme and Presentations

UK & Ireland Prostate Brachytherapy Conference 2011

9th April 2011

Castle Hotel, Windsor

    ABSTRACT SLIDES  
8:00 Breakfast and Registration      Castle Hotel
9:00 Welcome and Introduction:     Paul Rogers
9:10 First Session: Key Note Address (Sponsored by IBt)     Chair: Paul Rogers
  “The American Experience of Brachytherapy and External Beam Radiotherapy for High Risk Prostate cancer”     Jamie Cesaretti
9:40 Overcoming Limitations (Sponsored by IBt)     Chair: Mr Adam Jones
 

Prostate Brachytherapy in prostates up to 100 ml volume

    Helen O’Donnell 
  Prostate Brachytherapy in prostates with TURP defects     Pete Acher
  Real Time Planning Tips for overcoming the limitations     Sarah Aldridge
10:30 Coffee, Tea, Exhibitions, Posters, Planning Challenge
11:00

Second Scientific Session: Assuring Quality Implants (Sponsored by Oncura)

    Co-Chairs: Paul Rogers & Robert Laing
  UK Survey of Quality Assurance (Paul Evans Memorial Lecture)      Robert Laing
  Quality Assurance: Canadian Perspective & Experience     Jim Morris
  The European “Probrachy” Real Time Database     Mr. Stefen Machtens
  Assuring Quality Brachytherapy in the UK: The Way Forward     Jane Barrett
12:30 Lunch and Poster review/Exhibition/Planning Challenge
1:30 Prize Abstracts (Sponsored by Oncura)     Chair/Panel: Paul Rogers (Reading), Jamie Cesaretti (USA), Stefan Machtens (Germany), Jim Morris (Vancouver)
  LDR Brachytherapy should be considered in Young Men with Prostate Cancer.   Dr Eliot Chadwick
  Single fraction HDR boost. Report of Toxicity from a Single Centre Experience.   Dr James Wylie
  Justification of Pre-Treatment Correction of Catheter Movement in Single Fraction High Dose-Rate Treatment of Prostate Cancer.   David Inchley
  Prostate Seed Brachytherapy – Can Ultrasound be used in Post Implant Dosimetry Analysis?   Christopher Walker
  UK Experience of Real Time Prostate Brachytherapy: A Report from Two Centres.   Dr Eleanor James, SpR
  Assessing the Benefit of Utilising Higher Activity Seeds in Larger Prostate Volumes.   David Wood
  Overview of 11 Years Experience I-125 Prostate Brachytherapy.   Dr Eliot Chadwick
2:40 “Prostate Brachytherapy patients are Almost normal!” Radiation Protection Update from the IPEM     Andrew Doggart
2.55 Coffee, Tea, Exhibitions, Posters
  Sexually Transmitted Seeds?   Sarah Aldridge
  Moving with the times: Evolution of technique in prostate brachytherapy.   Eliot Chadwick
  A single institution’s experience of cytoreductive regimens prior to prostate brachytherapy.   Roisin Connolly
3.25 High Dose Rate Prostate Brachytherapy (Sponsored by Nucletron)     Chairs: Andrew Doggart / Anna Lydon
  Considerations for Setting up HDR Prostate Brachytherapy     Stuart Duggleby
  High Dose Rate Monotherapy for Prostate Cancer     Bengt Johansson
4.00 Prostate Brachytherapy in Young Men and correlations of late Side effects with Genetics and Dose Volume Constraints (Sponsored by BARD)     Jamie Cesaretti
4.30 Managing Recurrence     Chair: Adam Jones
  Salvage Surgery for Local Recurrence after Radiotherapy/ Brachytherapy.     Mr Peter Malone
  Salvage Brachytherapy and UK Brachytherapy Research     Paul Rogers
5:00 Results of Real Time Prostate Planning Challenge Prize Abstract Presentation and Close
6:00 Private Tour of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle (ID required)
Pre-Dinner Drinks and Canapés, Dean’s Cloister, Windsor Castle Accompanied by the Westland String Quartet (Non Sponsored Event) 
8:00 Conference Dinner Vicars Hall, Windsor Castle Westland String Quartet (Non Sponsored)

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