BRAVO Symposium 2016
Date and time
Location
SQUARE - Brussels Meeting Centre
Ravensteinstraat 2 1000 Brussel BelgiumDescription
Topic: Radiation Oncology in the Fight against Cancer
Program:
- 09h00 - 09h25: Venue opens
- 09h25 - 09h30: Welcome address (Steven Cuypers, Co-President BRAVO for the industry)
- 09h30 - 09h50: Radiotherapy in Belgium: An insight through the European looking glass (Prof Dr. Yolande Lievens, Chair Radiation Oncology Department at University Hospital Ghent)
- 09h55 - 10h15: Modern radiation oncology, a subtle balance between standardisation and individualisation (Prof. Dr Dirk Verellen – Iridium Kankernetwerk, Antwerp; VUB, Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie)
- 10h20 - 10h45: Break
- 10h45 - 11h05: High quality radiotherapy: a life saver or just a costly exercise? (Prof. Dr Dirk Van Gestel – Chair Radiation Oncology Department at Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels)
- 11h10 - 11h45: Expanding Global Access to Radiotherapy: Demand, Supply, and Benefit (Prof. David Jaffray – Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre; Executive VP Technology and Innovation at UHN; co-author of “Expanding global access to radiotherapy” in The Lancet (2015))
- 11h45 - 12h00: Q&A
- 12h00 - 12h05: Closing Remarks (Prof. Dr Gert De Meerleer – Co-President BRAVO for the physicians; Radiation Oncologist at University Hospital Leuven)
- 12h05 - 13h00: Networking Lunch
Moderators: Prof. Dr. Karin Haustermans (Chair Radiation Oncology Department at University Hospital Leuven) and Prof. Dr. Wilfried De Neve (Professor Radiotherapy and Experimental Oncology at University Hospital Ghent).
Note: All presentations will be held in English with simultaneous translation into Dutch and French.
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Organized by
BRAVO is the Belgian Radiation Oncology Awareness and Visibility Organization.
Radiation oncology is a medical treatment specialty mainly used to treat cancer and related diseases. It is important to differentiate radiation oncology from radiology, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, chemotherapy and nuclear power production. Click here to find out more what radiation oncology is (and what it is not).
The Belgian radiation oncology providers (physicians, medical physicist, nursing staff) team up with the medical industry that offers the tools and systems to provide high quality radiation therapy treatments to patients with cancer. The medical and industrial partners within BRAVO decided to create better awareness of radiation-oncology as a very safe and very modern treatment method of cancer. The main aim of this cooperation is to spread this message among patients, medical colleagues, politicians and press.