Föreläsningar och seminarier Radiotherapy Workshop in Stockholm with the National Institute of Oncology Budapest

2025-05-12 till
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Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Solna

The second Radiotherapy Workshop will take place at Karolinska University Hospital on 12-13th of May, 2025 together with colleagues at the National Institute of Oncology Budapest (NIO) within the framework of the “Twinning agreement” between NIO and Karolinska Institutet (KI)/Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm.

Read more about the twinning agreement between KI and NIO. 

The workshop will cover radiotherapy (RT) related research ongoing at Karolinska University Hospital, KI and NIO. It will cover several topics such as brachytherapy, SBRT, clinical RT trials and preclinical RT research. The program for the workshop can be found below.

Registration: Please, register here if you wish to attend the workshop.

Program

09:30 – 09:45
Welcome note

Prof. /Director Cancer Research KI Elias Arnér, KI

MD/PhD/ Chief Medical Officer Mattias Hedman, Karolinska University Hospital

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zoltán Takácsi-Nagy, Head of the Center of Radiotherapy, National Institute of Oncology

Session 1
Presentation of the RT departments at Karolinska University Hospital and National Institute of Oncology and the EUnetCCC project
09:45 – 10.05
Introduction of Radiotherapy Department at Karolinska University Hospital

M. Hedman, RO

10.10 -10:40
Introduction of Radiotherapy Center of NIO

Z. Takácsi-Nagy, RO

10.40-10.55
Introduction to the EUnetCCC project and the work group on research activities

E. Jolly, Head of Karolinska CCC Project Unit, WP lead EUnetCCC

L. Bäckdahl, Research coordinator, Cancer research KI

Z. Takácsi-Nagy, RO

Session 2
Brachytherapy (Chairman: Å. Carlsson Tedgren, MP, Karolinska)
11.10- 11.40
Brachytherapy at Karolinska

Å. Carlsson Tedgren, MP

M. Gubanski, RO

11.40- 12.10
Brachytherapy of breast cancer

C. Polgar, RO

12.10- 12.40
Brachytherapy vs. modern EBRT techniques regarding dosimetry

T. Major, MP

Session 3
Clinical Radiotherapy (Chairmans: Rolf Lewensohn, Oncologist and Eva Onjukka, MP)
13.40-14.10
Contact brachytherapy for rectal cancer

A.Valdman, RO

14.10-14.40
RT in childhood cancer

A. Embring, RO

14.40-15.10
Reirradiation of prostate cancer

P. Ágoston, RO

Session 4
SBRT at NIO and Karolinska (Chairmans: Rolf Lewensohn, Oncologist and Eva Onjukka, MP)
15.40-16.10
Long-term clinical results with Linac and Cyberknife based SBRT for primary lung cancer

L. Jánváry, RO

16.10-16.30
Clinical benefit of SBRT in oligometastatic NSCLC

K. Lindberg, Oncologist

16.30 -16.50
Modelling the risk of bleeding after SBRT of centrally located lung tumors

E. Onjukka, MP

K. Karlsson, MP

16.50.-17.10
SBRT for malignant melanoma- the PROMMEL study

H. Helgadottir, Oncologist

17.10-17.20
Wrap up of the day
Session 5
Preclinical and translational research (Chair: K.Viktorsson, KI)
8.30-9.00
Brachytherapy and research- Examples of PhD projects at Karolinska/Karolinska Institutet
8.30-8.40
Independent verification of dosimetric data for 106Ru brachytherapy

S. Dahlander, MP, PhD stud.

8.40-8.50
Improved heterogeneity handling in the collapsed cone dose engine for brachytherapy

F, Alpsten, MP, PhD stud.

8.50-9.00
Outcomes of patients treated with adjuvant brachytherapy for cancer of oral tongue

E, Björgvinsson, RO, PhD stud.

9.00-9.10
General discussion
9.15-9.45
Biologically Optimised Adaptive RT

I.Toma Dasu, MP

9.45-10.15
Preventing cognitive decline after brain radiotherapy

K. Blomgren, Prof.

10.30-10.50
Decoding tumor ecosystem dynamics to improve radiotherapy responses in prostate cancer

Pavitra Kannan, RB

10.50-11.20
Improving RT with DDR inhibitors: clinic to bench and back to FDA/EMA approval

T. Helleday, Prof.

Session 6
Radionucleide Therapy and Theranostics at Karolinska (Chair: A. Valdman)
11.20-11.50
Theranostics - See what You treat and Treat what You see

C. Hindorf, MP

11.50-12.10
Development of radiopharmaceutical therapy for metastatic neuroblastoma - from bedside to bench and back

J. Stenman, MD/PhD/ Senior Lecturer

12.10-12.40
Round table discussion & closing of the workshop

E. Arnér, KI

M. Hedman, KI/Karolinska

C. Polgar, Z. Takácsi-Nagy, T. Major, NIO

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Organizing committee:

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Alexander Valdman

Senior Consultant/Associate Professor

Karolinska University Hospital, Medical unit Radiotherapy Physics and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Dep. Oncology/Pathology

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Åsa Carlsson Tedgren

Medical Physicist/Professor

Karolinska University Hospital, Medical Radiation Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Dep. Oncology/Pathology

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Kristina Viktorsson

PhD

Karolinska Institutet, Dep. Oncology/Pathology, Scientific coordinator of radiotherapy, Radiumhemmets forskningsfonder