UK & Ireland Prostate Brachytherapy Conference 2016
Friday 13th May 2016
The Roxburghe Hotel, Edinburgh
ABSTRACT
SLIDES
Presentations
An update on LDR Brachytherapy
Alastair Law (Consultant Clinical oncologist, Edinburgh Cancer Centre)
Treating High Risk Prostate Cancer – Surgery Has The Edge!
Alan McNeill (Department of Urology Lothian University Hospitals)
PSA nadir post LDR Brachytherapy and early Salvage Therapy
Dr Duncan McLaren (Edinburgh)
High Dose Rate Brachytherapy 2014 – 2016
John Logue (Manchester)
Is ASCENDE-RT still pertinent? Is LDR-PB obsolete?
W. James Morris (Vancouver)
Functional radiotherapy targeting using focused dose escalation
Roberto Alonzi (Mount Vernon Cancer Centre)
SABR (SBRT) for Prostate Cancer
Suneil Jain (Queen’s University Belfast)
Physics Technology Update
William Keough (Edinburgh Cancer Centre)
Oral & Poster Presentations
Physics Abstracts
MRI based pre-planning method for I-125 seed “one-step” implantation
Inchley D
The effect of calcifications on prostate brachytherapy
Lee J
Monte Carlo in the assessment of the effects of tissue composition on dose distributions in low dose rate prostate brachytherapy
Leydon P
Global and sector based dosimetric comparison of plugged vs plug-free needles in permanent prostate brachytherapy
Sarri L
Clinical Abstracts
Training for care of prostate brachytherapy patients
Wang Y
Predictors of survival and causes of death following low-dose rate brachytherapy and robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy in low- and intermediaterisk prostate cancer: a UK Cancer Registry-linked study
Yamamoto H
Poster Presentations
Physics Abstracts
Review of the dosimetry of a nine year 125-Iodine seeds prostate brachytherapy programme
Kleefeld C
Clinical Abstracts
A single centre analysis of change in dosimetric outcomes through implementing a 1-Stage intraoperative implant technique
Keating F
Long-term biochemical control and morbidity outcomes with HDR prostate brachytherapy boost in combination with external beam radiotherapy