Course Director

Paul Van Houtte, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Bordet, Brussels (BE)

Teachers

Thierry Berghmans, Medical Oncologist, Institut Bordet (BE)

Giovanni Luca Ceresoli, Medical Oncologist, Cliniche Humanitas Gavazzeni (IT)

Julien Dinkel, Radiologist, University of Munich (DE)

Jaroslaw Kuzdzal, Thoracic Surgeon, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow (PL)

Paul Martin Putora, Radiation Oncologist, Kantonsspital St. Gallen (CH)

Sara Ramela, Radiation Oncologist, Campus Bio-Medico University Rome (IT)

Enrico Rufini, Thoracic Surgeon, University of Torino (IT)

Virginie Westeel, Pulmonologist, CHU Besançon, Univeristy of France-Comté, Besançon (FR)

Guest lecturer

Pietro Garlatti, Radiation Oncologist, University of Florence (IT)

This advanced multidisciplinary course, jointly organised by ESTRO, ESTS, ESSO aims at promoting an integrated approach to the diagnosis and management of lung cancer. The goal is to individualise the patient treatment approach based on  clinical presentation, prognostic factors, tumour extent and the patient. In the last decades, we have seen major technical and clinical improvements both for the diagnosis (including the different imaging procedures) and the treatment (surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapies) for this very common and aggressive tumour, with clear benefits for the patients.

The course will be very interactive through the integration of lectures, debates and cases discussions and definitely multidisciplinary with a programme outlining the different treatments for lung cancer from evidence based medicine to  on-going research. The faculty will include chest physicians, radiologists, medical oncologists, thoracic surgeons and radiation oncologists.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course participants should be able to:

• Stage a patient and follow up after treatment
• Actively participate in multidisciplinary discussions
• Understand the limits of surgery, radiotherapy and systemic treatment
• Design a radiation plan for lung cancer
• Evaluate a patient for treatment.

Course content

• Pitfalls in imaging procedures
• Staging patients
• TNM classification
• Is there a place for screening today?
• Early lung cancer – surgery, radiotherapy, adjuvant or induction chemotherapy, follow-up
• Systemic chemotherapy and targeted agents
• Immunotherapy
• Induced pneumopathy
• Thymoma
• Mesothelioma
• Small cell lung cancer
• PCI and consolidative RT
• Challenges of brain mets
• Locally advanced NSCLC
• Radio-chemotherapy, fractionation, dose-escalation, IO and RT
• Stage III cancer
• Patients with co-morbidity or poor PS
• Oligometastatic concept
• Palliative surgery
• Palliation and RT

You can find the course overview as a leaflet here

Please find the programme here.

FH55 Grand Hotel Mediterraneo

Lungarno del Tempio 44,

50121

Firenze

Membership

ESTRO members can order products at substantially reduced prices. To benefit from the member registration rate, you must subscribe for the ESTRO membership 2024 BEFORE registering to the course. To become an ESTRO member, benefit from the member registration rate and discover the many other member advantages, please visit the membership page.

Fees

* Members with specialty RadiationTherapist (RTT) may register at the In-Training fee

Early rates are applied up to three months before the starting date of the course.

Late rates are applied three months before the starting date of the course.

The fee includes the course material, coffees, lunches, and the social event.

Advance registration & payment are required.

Access to homework and/or course material will become available upon receipt of full payment.

Insurance and cancellation

Participants are strongly advised to take out their own personal insurance policy. ESTRO does not accept liability for individual medical, travel or personal accidents or incidents. Participants are strongly advised to take insurance policies to cover flight and accommodation cancellation penalties. ESTRO will not refund any travel or accommodation expenses.

For any cancellation made by the course or workshop participant, ESTRO School Events Cancellation Policy will be followed and all stated penalty fees will be applied. 

Reduced fees

Members from emerging countries may register at a preferential rate of 350 Euro. Emerging country fee applies to individuals from low-income and lower-middle-income economies according to the World Bank listing here.

Additionally, for this teaching course, all specialties from the following countries can benefit from this preferential rate: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine. 

The preferential rate of 350 Euro is granted automatically when you click on the  BOOK NOW  button and the conditions below are met:

1. Only ESTRO members for 2024 are eligible (please make sure your 2024 membership is in order before you click on the BOOK NOW button)
2. The application is submitted 3 months before the course start date.
3. Only one course per person per year can be subsidized by ESTRO
4. Sponsored candidates are not entitled to reduced fees (the invoicing address has to be the one of the participant)  
5. The are limited spaces available for each course in the price category. Places are granted on “first come first serve” basis.