Programme and Presentations
UK & Ireland Prostate Brachytherapy Conference 2017
Friday 19th May 2017
Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, County Antrim, BT9 5AB
| ABSTRACT | SLIDES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08.30 | Registration and exhibition/poster viewing | |||
| 09.00 | Welcome and introduction | Suneil Jain (Belfast) | ||
| Biomarkers and Imaging | Chair: Darren Mitchell | |||
| 09.15 | Prostate cancer research in Belfast | David Waugh (Belfast) | ||
| 09.45 | Novel biomarkers in prostate cancer | Richard Kennedy (Belfast) | ||
| 10.15 | Update on Imaging in/for brachytherapy |  |
Brendan Carey (Leeds) | |
| 10.45 | Coffee and exhibition/poster viewing | |||
| A Prostate Brachytherapy Database |  |
Byrne M | ||
| Independent verification of brachytherapy planning system calculations using Matlab Code |
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Esteve S | ||
| Implementation of MDT Safety Brief within Prostate Brachytherapy | |
Farrell R | ||
| Salvage prostate High Dose Rate Brachytherapy: Initial Bristol experience | |
Masson S | ||
| Urinary and sexual functional outcomes following successful treatment of prostate cancer using Low-Dose Rate Brachytherapy |
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Murtagh K | ||
| The efficacy of cytoreduction as a bridge to brachytherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer – an Irish cohort |
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Peoples A | ||
| The Grandfather Effect- personalizing radiation safety precautions following prostate implantation with I-125 Seeds |
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O’Neill M | ||
| Testing and evaluation of image registration in brachytherapy | |
Sands G | ||
| Comparison of MR and trans-rectal US volumes obtained with and without General Anaesthetic |
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Shiels P | ||
| LDR Prostate Brachytherapy service streamlining | |
Shiels P | ||
| A new technique on 4D real time interactive permanent prostate seed implant brachytherapy |
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Villalon Arias C | ||
| Fabry-Pérot based optical fi ber sensor for real time measurement of oxygen level in hypoxic tumors for prostate cancer during radiation therapy |
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Viphavakit C | ||
| What’s the Best Combination? | Chairs: Suneil Jain and Paul Kelly | |||
| 11.00 | LDR + EBRT “ASCENDE RT” | |
Joe Bucci (Sydney) | |
| 11.15 | LDR vs LDR + EBRT. Is the EBRT required? | |
Duncan McLaren (Edinburgh) | |
| 11.30 | ASCENDE RT vs EBRT + HDR boost | John Logue (Manchester) | ||
| 11.45 | LDR mono vs HDR mono | |
Gerard Morton (Toronto) | |
| Main Conference | Chairs: John Sylvester and Darren Mitchell | |||
| 12.00 | New research in prostate brachytherapy | |
Ann Henry (Leeds) | |
| 12.15 | Rectal sparing in brachytherapy | |
Joe Bucci (Sydney) | |
| 12.30 | Establishing, developing and maintainingtraining in LDR and HDR |
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Frank Sullivan (Galway) – the Irish LDR programme Stephen Langley (Guildford) – LDR James Wylie (Manchester) – HDR |
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| Physics Breakout Session | Chairs: Geraldine Workman and Sarah Aldridge | |||
| 12.00 | Multi-parametric MRI of the Prostate | |
Cormac McGrath (Belfast) | |
| 12.15 | Focal brachytherapy | |
Peter Bownes (Leeds) | |
| 12.30 | Implementation of HDR prostate brachytherapy: The OCC experience | Ananth Ravi (Toronto) | ||
| 14.00 | Proffered papers – Physics | |||
| 13.00 | Lunch and exhibition/poster viewing | |||
| 14.00 | Proffered papers – Clinical and physics overflow | Chairs: Peter Bownes and James Wylie | ||
| Early outcomes of 19 Gy single fraction High-dose-rate brachytherapy as monotherapy for localised prostate cancer |
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Challapalli A | ||
| Focal salvage LDR brachytherapy for prostate cancer – Edinburgh Cancer Centre experience |
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Lee J | ||
| Short-term clinical toxicity of HDR Brachytherapy in prostate cancer patients with infl ammatory bowel disease |
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Mohammed W | ||
| Moving from 2 stage to intra-operative technique for LDR Brachytherapy | |
Thomas G | ||
| 610 Patients, What Went Wrong? What Did We Learn? | |
Woulfe P | ||
| Can MRI based pre-planning replace ultrasound for permanent prostate brachytherapy treatment planning? – A feasibility study |
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Yoosuf ABM | ||
| Review and optimisation of Seed Migration detection following LDR permanent prostate loose seed implants |
|
Day K | ||
| Optical fi bre luminescence sensor for real-time LDR Brachytherapy dosimetry |
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Woulfe P | ||
| Using MRI and When to Salvage | Chairs: Gerard Morton and John Logue | |||
| 14.45 | Practical strategies on implementing MR in HDR brachytherapy | Ananth Ravi (Toronto) | ||
| 15.20 | Coffee and exhibition/poster viewing | |||
| 15.50 | HDR update & Focal HDR salvage | Roberto Alonzi (Middlesex) | ||
| 16.25 | Novel salvage scenarios | Stephen Morris & Sarah Aldridge (London) | ||
| 17.00 | Summary of survey results | Geraldine Workman (Belfast) | ||
| 17.15 | Prize and closing remarks | Darren Mitchell (Belfast), Suneil Jain (Belfast) & Geraldine Workman (Belfast) | ||
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