Programme

Overview: Meet & Greet sessions provide journey participants with the opportunity to network and to meet ESTRO focus group representatives who developed these journeys. Registration for Meet & Greet sessions is required via the Journeys tab on the ESTRO 2025 website.

Overview: Radiation oncology practice continues to evolve with the rapid integration of technological and therapeutic changes in order to provide optimal care and outcomes to our patients. Effective interdisciplinary coordination and communication is central to coordinate these efforts and will be the primary focus of this interactive session. Specifically, presentations related to patient centric care, as well as collaborations within and outside radiation oncology will highlight both challenges and opportunities that exist to "transform radiotherapy by rethinking interdisciplinary collaboration".

Overview: In radiation oncology, treatment decisions require balancing therapeutic efficacy with the risk of toxicity. Normal Tissue Complication Probability (NTCP) models offer a quantitative framework for estimating treatment-related side effects, potentially enabling safer, more personalized care. However, whether they should take the lead in clinical decision-making remains a matter of debate. Arguing for the motion, Markus Alber and Hans Langendijk will advocate for NTCP models as essential tools for guiding patient management. Opposing them, Tiziana Rancati and Ivan Vogelius will highlight model limitations and question their reliability. The stage is set for a compelling debate—but who has the stronger arguments? That’s for you, the audience, to decide!

Overview: Online adaptive radiotherapy (OART) presents an opportunity to account for changes in the patient's anatomy and physiology over the course of treatment, potentially allowing us to target disease more accurately. However, OART also requires a re-evaluation of many aspects of the treatment process, in particular for verification and quality assurance of the online adaptive workflow. In this session, three expert physicists present an overview of the online adaptive workflow and the challenges for QA arising from the transition to OART, the potential solutions to these challenges, and the new risks and the necessary changes associated with plan-specific QA.

Overview: The first talk “Assessing health literacy (HL) in RT patients” will cover; Background of communication skills and HL for RT’s, HL assessments within RT, HL tools & recommendation, Benefits and barriers to HL and future Recommendations. The second talk “Information barriers for older patients with intellectual disability (ID) in accessing cancer treatment” will discuss the background ID and cancer, Barrier types, EuCan qualitative preliminary results and future recommendations. The third talk “Improving RT information for LGBTIQ+ patients” discussion will include background of healthcare inequities for LGBTIQ+ patients, considerations for LGBTIQ+ patients undergoing RT, inclusive communication and cultural sensitivity in patient communication, psychosocial needs, community support and health care professional education and development.