Basic clinical radiobiology
Dublín (Irlanda)
Basic clinical radiobiology. 15-19 Septiembre, 2018. Dublín (Irlanda).
TARGET GROUP
The course is aimed at:
• Trainees in radiotherapy
• Radiation oncologists who lack basic radiobiological science or who want to update their knowledge (i.e. for CME)
• Medical physicists who wish to familiarise themselves with this field
• Physicians from other disciplines administering ionising radiation
• Radiation therapists (RTTs)
COURSE AIM/RATIONALE
• A series of basic lectures introducing molecular and clinical radiobiology
• Mechanisms and models or radiation cell killing
• The linear-quadratic approach to fractionation
• Molecular basis of radiation response
• Radiobiology and tolerance of normal tissues to (re)treatment
• Alternative fractionation schedules in radiotherapy
• Tumour hypoxia and the microenvironment
• Combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy
• The volume and dose-rate effect in radiotherapy
• Biological response modifiers (tumours, normal tissues) and molecular approaches to therapy
• Protons and other particles in radiotherapy
• Radiation-induced malignancies