Friday 3 May
Opening Ceremony
Friday 3 May 2024 | 17:10-18:00 | Plenary Hall
All participants and company delegates are invited tonight to the official Opening Ceremony.
Welcome by Anna Kirby, Chair of ESTRO 2024 and ESTRO President
Breur Award Lecture: Bridging the care gap - A fascinating new era for radiotherapy in the treatment of haematological malignancies, Umberto Ricardi
Welcome Networking
Friday 3 May 2024 | 18:00| Exhibition area
Saturday 4 May
PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 4 May 2024 I 11:40-12.40 |Plenary Hall
Bridging the Care Gap
- Addressing socioeconomic gaps, Ajay Aggarwal, UK
- Addressing national disparities in access and outcomes of radiation oncology care, Timothy Hanna, Canada
- Bridging the east-west divide in Europe, Richard Sullivan, UK
- Bridging the global radiation oncology care gap? Elena Fidarova, Austria
GEC-ESTRO Assembly
Saturday 4 May 2024 | 13:00 - 14:00 | Forth
Go Green sessions: Exploring Sustainability in Radiation Oncology
Saturday 4 May |13:00-14:00 | ESTRO Stage (exhibition area)
- RT footprint and hypofractionation (15min Rob Chuter),
- Hypofractionation in the real-world setting (15min Peter Hoskin)
- Circular economy (15min Ana Luisa Soares)
Emmanuel van der Schueren Award Lecture
Saturday 4 May 2024 I 14:15 – 14:40| Armadillo
Marcel van Herk, UK
25 years of ESTRO teaching, from big brother to big data
Jens Overgaard Legacy Award Lecture
Saturday 4 May 2024 I 14:40 – 15:05| Armadillo
David Thwaites, UK and Australia
Bridging the evidence gap: From physics and technology innovations to clinical practice
Sunday 5 May
HIGHLIGHTS OF PROFFERED PAPERS – Best Papers
Sunday 5 May | 11:40 – 12:40 | Armadillo
Jose-Luis Guinot, Spain
Five-year results of Very Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation VAPBI phase I-II GEC-ESTRO trial
- Best Clinical Award
Véronique Vendrely, France
Organ preservation in rectal cancer: the GRECCAR12 randomized phase 3 trial (NCT02514278)
- Best Interdisciplinary Award
Anniek van Hienen, The Netherlands
Patients’ needs and experiences regarding shared decision-making in radiotherapy.
- Best Physics Award
Matteo Maspero, The Netherlands
Generating synthetic computed tomography for radiotherapy: SynthRAD2023 challenge report
- Best Radiobiology Award
Anaís Sánchez Castillo, The Netherlands
Targeting serine/glycine metabolism improves radiotherapy response in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Best RTT Award
Mylène Noordeloos, The Netherlands
Does intra-fraction motion of pelvic lymph nodes depend on localization in online MR-guided RT?
Physics Assembly & Networking
Sunday 5 May 2024 | 13:00 - 14:40 | Hall 3
Go Green sessions: Exploring Sustainability in Radiation Oncology
Sunday 5 May |13:00-14:00 | ESTRO Stage (exhibition area)
Join us to discuss the ESTRO 2024 abstracts about sustainability!
Biology Meet & Greet
Sunday 5 May 2024 I 14:00 – 16:00 | ESTRO Stage (exhibition area)
Iridium 192 Award Lecture
Sunday 5 May 2024 I 14:15 – 14:40| Armadillo
Bradley Pieters, The Netherlands
Confidence through certainty
Monday 6 May
YOUNG TRACK
Monday 6 May 2024 I 8:00 – 17:45 | Room: Forth
- 08:00 – 08:40: Closing the gap: Strategies for reducing inequalities in Radiation Oncology (Symposium)
- 08:45 – 10:00: How to bridge the research practice divide by translating radiotherapy research into clinical application (Panel discussion)
- 10:30 – 11:30: Speed dating
13:10 – 14:10: Revisiting hypofractionation: Unravelling the rationale for optimising SBRT and brachytherapy (Symposium)
- 15:00 – 15:50: Nurturing the future: Inspiring innovation through national young Radiation Oncology societies (Panel discussion)
- 15:50 – 16:15: Imagine there’s no ESTRO (Teaching lecture)
- 16:30 – 17:30: Networking session: Quiz
HIGHLIGHTS OF PROFFERED PAPERS – Latest Clinical Trials
Monday 6 May | 11:40 - 12:40 | Armadillo
- PET vs. MRI based reirradiation in glioblastoma. A prospective randomized trial (GLIAA, NCT01252459)
Anca-L. Grosu, Germany
- Local control patterns of GORTEC 2014-04 IIR Trial of SABR or chemo-SABR in oligometastastic HNSCCs
Juliette Thariat, France
- Radiation vs Transoral Robotic Surgery for Oropharyngeal Cancer: Final Results of the ORATOR Trial
David Palma, Canada
- Sparing blood and immune rich organs improve the immune system during lung SBRT- Trial (NCT04273893)
Krishni Wijesooriya, USA
- Cardiac safety of ultra-Hypofractionated RT in the HYPORT Adjuvant randomized trial (NCT03788213)
Nikhil Bathija, India
- Impact of cumulative cisplatin-dose on distant metastasis after chemoradiation of cervical cancer
Johannes Knoth, Austria
Go Green sessions: Exploring Sustainability in Radiation Oncology
Monday 6 May |13:00-14:00 | ESTRO Stage (exhibition area)
- RT footprint and hypofractionation (15min Rob Chuter),
- Hypofractionation in the real-world setting (15min Peter Hoskin)
- Circular economy (15min Ana Luisa Soares)
RTT committee and RTT Alliance
Meet & Greet
Monday 6 May 2024 I 13:00 – 14:00 |Meeting room: Dochart 1
Join us for an enriching experience and get ready to engage in stimulating discussions, share knowledge, and explore exciting ideas with fellow radiation therapists!”
Interdisciplinary Award Lecture
Monday 6 May I 14:15 – 14:40| Armadillo
Anthony Chalmers, UK
Interdisciplinary radiation research? How could it be anything else!
Donal Hollywood Award Lecture
Monday 6 May I 14:40 – 14:55| Armadillo
Piet Ost, Belgium
Salvage Treatment of OligoRecurrent nodal prostate cancer Metastases (STORM)
ESTRO General Assembly
Monday 6 May 2024 I 18:00 – 19:00| Hall 2
LATE-BREAKING CLINICAL TRIALS
Monday 6 May 2024 I 16:45 – 17:45| Armadillo
- Radiotherapy vs. Trans-Oral Surgery for Treatment De-Escalation in HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Primary Analysis of the ORATOR2 Trial
David Palma, Canada
- Safety and clinical benefit of reduced elective dose in head & neck cancer: results of a randomized controlled trial (NCT02442375)
S. van den Bosch, The Netherlands
- APBI with 3D-CRT vs. WBI: primary endpoint results of the prospective randomised phase 3 IRMA trial
Bruno Meduri, Italy
- DBCG IMN2: Internal mammary node irradiation in 4541 high-risk breast cancer patients treated 2007-2014
Anders W. Mølby Nielsen, Denmark
- Acute toxicity from PACE-C comparing Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) with moderate hypofractionation (MHRT)
Alison Tree, United Kingdom
- Focal boost SBRT in men with intermediate- and high-risk PCa: 5-year results of the hypo-FLAME trial
Cédric Draulans, Belgium
- Primary endpoint analysis of TRAP, first prospective Phase II trial of SBRT to oligoprogressive disease prostate cancer (NCT03644303)
Priyanka Patel, United Kingdom
Tuesday 7 May
CLOSING DEBATE
Tuesday 7 May 2024 I 12:25 – 13:30 | Hall 2
Clash of the Tartans - The Great AI Debate - This house believes that the radiation therapy care pathway will be delivered entirely by bots by 2040
Andrew Hope, Canada
Stine Korreman, Denmark
Andre Dekker, The Netherlands
Eliana Maria Vasquez Osorio, United Kingdom