Copenhagen, Denmark
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ESTRO 2022

Session

Sunday
May 08
14:15 - 15:30
Room D2
This house believes that in 10 years particle therapy will be in a better place than now!
Ludvig Muren, Denmark;
Marco Schwarz, USA
Proton therapy (PT) is in some respects an established treatment approach (the first treatments were carried decades ago) and in other respects it is perceived as a technique that still needs to find its role in radiation oncology. Will improvements in patient selection methods, better image guidance, reduced cost of the technology, and the promising developments of FLASH, enable a bright future for proton therapy? Or will instead long standing objections about the lack of economical sustainability, and the struggle to demonstrate superior clinical benefits to photon therapy, keep hampering PT developments over the next few years, even more so in the landscape of rapidly improving systemic therapy?
2400
Debate
Physics
14:15 - 14:17
Introduction
SP-0528
14:17 - 14:18
Presentation of the Honorary Member Award
14:18 - 14:32
Thomas Bortfeld, USA
SP-0529
14:32 - 14:47
Matthias Guckenberger, Switzerland
SP-0530
14:47 - 15:02
Marianne Aznar, United Kingdom
SP-0531
15:02 - 15:17
Esther Troost, Germany
SP-0532
15:17 - 15:30
Discussion
SP-0533