Programme

Overview: Mini-Orals are presented at one of the sessions scheduled in the two mini-oral theatres. Each author will present a 4-slide PowerPoint orally for 4 minutes, followed by 3 minutes for discussion. Sessions will not be recorded.

Overview: Poster Discussions are presented in one of the sessions scheduled at the two poster discussion theatres. Each author will present a digital poster orally for 2 minutes, followed by 2 minutes for discussion. Sessions will not be recorded.

Overview: Poster Discussions are presented in one of the sessions scheduled at the two poster discussion theatres. Each author will present a digital poster orally for 2 minutes, followed by 2 minutes for discussion. Sessions will not be recorded.

Overview: This session is about gaps in cancer care and how to bridge them, starting with socioeconomic factors, national disparities in care, Eastern/ Western European disparities in access to care, and finally global challenges. The aim of the session is to equip healthcare professionals with additional tools and avenues for maximising the quality, impact and reach of what they do each day.

Overview: The interdisciplinary education session will consist of two invited presentations and two of the highest ranked proffered papers within the category of education in radiation oncology. In this session we will discuss how to raise the bar for educating current and future generations of radiation oncology professionals and how we can foster these changes. We will examine conceptual and scholarly frameworks for education, consider competencies outside standard technical/clinical skills, look at novel learning methods and focus on enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration. These principles will be highlighted by examples of international activity in collaborative radiation oncology education groups and extensive work in the area of expert medical physicists’ training in Europe. The session will showcase a newly launched initiative to raise the bar for training and optimising the treatment of cervical cancer in countries with limited resources.

Overview: Whether you are a radiation biologist, physicist, therapist or oncologist, you have faced with the challenges of modelling dose response relationships and the consequences being able to so as accurately. Radiomics is a potentially very powerful tool to better understand dose response relationships yet its value in replacing classical radiobiological endpoints remains debatable. In this session, we will hear from leading experts in the field on whether our efforts are best placed into analysing our images (radiomics) or digging into the complexity of biological responses (radiobiology). Will you be proven right, swayed to the other side or split in the middle?

Overview: The ESTRO-EANO joint symposium on SRS/SRT for brain metastases highlights cutting-edge techniques and neurocognitive function assessment. Topics include mono-isocentric techniques, precise immobilization systems, and both frame-based and frameless SRS/SRT, emphasizing sub-millimetric alignment and novel IGRT methods. Treatment optimization, technical limitations, and future directions, particularly for treating multiple metastases are discussed from a medical physicist’s perspective. The potential of MR-linac in advancing SRS/SRT is highlighted and expert Neuro-oncologists focus on radiation-induced neurotoxicity, prevention, and treatment strategies, emphasizing the importance of cognitive rehabilitation. This multifaceted session aims to give a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary overview of the state-of-the-art.