Vienna, Austria

ESTRO 2025

Session

Monday
May 05
15:15 - 16:30
Lehar 1-3
This house believes that dose accumulation will never provide a clinical benefit
Dave Fuller, USA;
Lena Nenoff, Germany
In fractionated radiotherapy, the dose delivered each day varies between treatment sessions. In current clinical practice each fraction is evaluated separately to allow for the evaluation of dosimetric changes of even the necessary adaptations to the treatment plan. Dose accumulation enables tracking of the total dose throughout the treatment. However, due to large and poorly quantified uncertainties, interpreting accumulated doses remains challenging and is currently limited in clinical practice. This debate will explore whether dose accumulation could provide a clinical benefit in future radiotherapy.
Debate
Physics
15:15 - 15:18
Introduction & voting
15:18 - 15:33
For the motion
Uwe Oelfke, United Kingdom
15:33 - 15:48
Against the motion
Kristy Brock, USA
15:48 - 16:03
For the motion - rebuttal
Marcel van Herk, United Kingdom
16:03 - 16:18
Against the motion - rebuttal
Laura Dawson, Canada
16:18 - 16:30
Discussion & voting