OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACT REVIEWERS

All abstracts submitted to the ESTRO Annual Congress are peer-reviewed by the Review Committee. The resulting abstract scores guide the Scientific Programme Committee in choosing abstracts for the different categories of the sessions (proffered papers, mini-orals, poster discussion and digital posters). This input from the radiotherapy community ensures a fair and equitable selection of abstracts.

To ensure that the Review Committee is made up of peers, ESTRO likes to refresh its members regularly. For this reason, we are launching an open call for new abstract reviewers.

 

REVIEWING ABSTRACTS

The pool of potential abstract reviewers receives an invitation in September to review abstracts for the annual congress of the year after (in May). If a potential reviewer accepts, they will confirm their review topics. Reviewers are asked to score an average of 50 abstracts, with a maximum of 70. The review period takes place over two weeks in November.

Abstract Reviewers, and their invaluable contribution to the scientific programme, are acknowledged in congress materials.

 

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

The application period has closed. All submissions will be assessed and notifications sent out in Septpber 2023.

For any questions, please email programme@estro.org.

 

ABSTRACT TOPICS

The ESTRO Annual Congress accepts abstracts under six main tracks. These tracks are split into various topics:

Brachytherapy

• Breast
• Gynaecology
• Head & neck, skin, eye
• Gastro-intestinal, paediatric brachytherapy, miscellaneous
• Urology - prostate, bladder, penis
• Physics
• General Brachytherapy

Clinical

• Breast
• CNS
• Head & neck
• Lung
• Upper GI
• Lower GI
• Urology
• Gynaecological
• Haematology
• Sarcoma/skin cancer/malignant melanoma
• Paediatric tumours
• Biomarkers
• Mixed sites/palliation

Interdisciplinary

• Education in radiation oncology
• Health economics & health services research
• Global health
• Other (topic of relevance for radiation oncology, NOT related to any other category)

Physics

• Autosegmentation
• Detectors, dose measurement and phantoms
• Dose calculation algorithms
• Dose prediction, optimisation and applications of photon and electron planning
• Image acquisition and processing including ML based methods
• Inter-fraction motion management and offline adaptive radiotherapy 
• Intra-fraction motion management and real-time adaptive radiotherapy
• Machine learning models and clinical applications (excluding imaging and segmentation)
• Optimisation, algorithms and applications for ion beam treatment planning
• Quality assurance and auditing 
• Radiomics, functional and biological imaging and outcome prediction

Radiobiology

• Normal tissue radiobiology
• Tumour radiobiology
• Immuno-radiobiology
• Microenvironment

RTT

• Patient care, preparation, immobilisation and IGRT verification protocols
• Patient experience and quality of life
• RTT treatment planning, OAR and target definitions
• RTT service evaluation, quality assurance and risk management
• RTT education, training, advanced practice and role developments