Programme and Presentations
UK & Ireland Prostate Brachytherapy Conference 2018
Friday 23rd March 2018
The Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
| ABSTRACT | SLIDES | |||
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| 08.00 | Registration | |||
| 08.45 | Welcome Life in a 4d Brachy centre |
Sharon Beesley | ||
| Monotherapy | Chair: Sharon Beesley | |||
| 09.10 | HDR Monotherapy in the UK – The first thousand | Peter Hoskin | ||
| 09.25 | LDR or HDR as monotherapy in low risk disease |  |
Amit Bahl | |
| 09.40 | An alternative monotherapy – Are protons better? The US experience | |
Anthony Zietman | |
| 10.10 | Coffee; Exhibition/Poster viewing | |||
| Managing intermediate and high risk prostate cancer | Chair: Albert Edwards | |||
| 10.40 | Androgen Deprivation in Brachytherapy – Adding efficacy or just toxicity | |
Carl Salembier | |
| 11.00 |
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Robert Laing Peter Hoskin JoeO ’Sullivan |
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| 11.45 | Will PIVOTAL Boost give us the answers? | |
Azman Ibrahim | |
| 12.00 | Use of HDR and permanent seeds in prostate brachytherapy: Current practices and advances | |
Jose Perez Calatayud | |
| 12.30 | Lunch; Exhibition/Poster viewing | |||
| 13.30 | Breakout sessions | |||
| Physicists / Radiographers | Real-world brachytherapy for physicists and radiographers | |
Jose Perez Calatayud / Carlos Villalón Arias / Sara Hodgkinson / Emma Bourke | |
| Clinicians | After the cure: Imaging and side effects handling | |
Carl Salembier / Alastair Henderson / Adrian Barnardo | |
| 14.15 | Poster presentations | Chair: Kathryn Lees | ||
| The effect of bilateral treatment plan symmetry on postoperative dosimetric outcomes in prostate low-dose-rate brachytherapy: a single-institution study |  |
Mohamed Yoosuf AB | ||
| An Investigation into Low Dose Rate Prostate Brachytherapy Iodine-125 Seed Damage during a Standard Transurethral Resection of the Prostate | |
Whitelaw G | ||
| Modulation of spatial dose distribution in permanent prostate brachytherapy using sector dosimetry: an analysis of 394 patients from a single institution | |
Esteve S | ||
| Robotic Prostate Biopsy and LDR/HDR Brachytherapy under MRI Guidance: The CoBra Project | |
Palmer AL | ||
| Initial experience using a rectal spacer (SPACE-OAR) with LDR brachytherapy for Prostate cancer | |
Morris SL | ||
| Experience of HDR brachytherapy in Leeds as a salvage treatment for locally relapsed prostate cancer | |
Slevin F | ||
| Characterising the dosimetric quality of 125I LDR prostate implants and assessing inter-operator variability | |
Awunor O | ||
| 14.45 | Coffee; Exhibition/Poster viewing | |||
| Salvage post-brachytherapy – there is something we can offer? | Chair: Alastair Henderson | |||
| 15.15 | Introduction – Can we have a consensus? | |
Alastair Henderson | |
| 15.25 | What to image, how to do it and when | |
Meeran Naji | |
| 15.40 | Prostatectomy as salvage therapy | |
Paul Cathcart | |
| 16.00 | LDR as salvage therapy | |
Sharon Beesley / Robert Laing | |
| 16.15 | HDR as salvage therapy | |
Amit Bahl | |
| 16.30 | Discussion: Can we come to an agreement? | |||
| 16.45 | Medical Journals, do they have a future? | |
Anthony Zietman | |
| 17.15 | Prize presentation and close of meeting | Chair: Sharon Beesley | ||
| Evening | Conference Dinner: The Guthrie Pavilion |
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