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