Prone Breast Radiotherapy Course: The NYU Technique

Prone Breast
Radiotherapy Course:
The NYU Technique
NYU School of Medicine
Department of Radiation Oncology
Sponsored by the NYU Post-Graduate Medical School
March 10, 2011 : Course
NYU Langone Medical Center, Classroom B
550 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016
March 11, 2011 : Hands-on Training
(Separate Registration)
The Cancer Institute at NYULMC, Room 1121
160 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10016
For registration and updates:
Visit http://cme.med.nyu.edu/pronebreast
For questions and information contact:
Stella Kanellakis
Phone: (212) 731-5039
Fax: (212) 731-5513
Stella.Kanellakis@nyumc.org
An NCI-designated Cancer Center

NYU School of Medicine
Department of Radiation Oncology
The course is targeted at radiation oncologists, physicists and
therapists interested in novel techniques for prone external
beam breast cancer radiation therapy.
Attendees will receive an overview of prone breast radiotherapy
including simulation, physics planning and treament and handson
demonstrations of the NYU Prone technique.
Special emphasis is given to the application of the NYU prone
technique and summary of NYU Cancer Institute protocols which
utilize IMRT planning techniques.
Prone Breast Radiotherapy Course: The NYU Technique
Rationale for prone breast irradiation
The NYU prone breast technique :
• Immobilization
• CT Scanning
• Segmentation
• Treatment Planning
• Intra and interfraction variation
Current prone treatments/protocols at
NYU Cancer Institute:
• Partial breast
• Whole breast
• Simultaneous Integrated Boost (SIB)
• Whole breast with prone hypofractionation
• Prone whole breast and nodal treatment
Hands on demonstration of simulation
and treatment
Faculty:
Silvia C Formenti, MD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology;
The Sandra and Edward H. Meyer
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Keith DeWyngaert, PhD
Director of Physics, Associate Professor
Gabor Jozsef, PhD
Associate Professor
Stella C. Lymberis, MD
Assistant Professor
Stewart Becker, PhD
Assistant Professor
The NYU Post-Graduate Medical School is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to
provide continuing medical education for physicians.