Programme

Overview: With increasing use of SBRT, working groups were established at the ESTRO 2021 physics workshop on harmonisation and standardisation of SBRT planning and delivery in order to better understand current practice and issue guidance on the technical implementation of this technique. Planning, delivery and dosimetry reporting for SBRT clinical trials was also evaluated to assess whether enough information was provided to interpret the data and reproduce the same processes outside the trial setting. Both working groups report their findings.

Overview: Vulvar cancer is one of the rare malignancies in adult women and girls with prognosis still being poor especially in advanced stages. As local failure is not unusual even after chemoradiation with or without surgery, brachytherapy provides an alternative for treating the primary tumor but requires challenging procedures and therefore detailed education. This joint teaching session includes two lectures that will cover different aspects of BT techniques for definitive and recurrent vulvar cancer including HDR and PDR treatments, target concepts, dose volume aspects and presentation of recently published French recommendations and implications for clinical use.