ABS Prostate Brachytherapy School 2010

Standards of Care
- Patient Selection for Low
Dose Rate Brachytherapy
- Low Dose Rate
Brachytherapy: Standards
of Care
-Examining the Philadelphia VA Experience
-Patient Selection for HDR Brachytherapy
- High Dose Rate Brachytherapy: Standards
of Care
- Audience Interactive Prostate Contouring
and Planning Tutorial (laptops provided)
Quality Assurance
- The Physics of a High Quality LDR
Brachytherapy Program
- The Physics of a High Quality HDR
Brachytherapy Program
-Optimal Dosimetic Parameters
-Mending Suboptimal Implants
Controversies in Brachytherapy
- Dose Escalation: How much dose is enough?
- Androgen Deprivation Therapy: When and
How Long?
- LDR Brachytherapy: Preplanning or Real
Time Planning?
- Do All Isotopes Have Excellent Outcome or
Do We Need More?
- Stranded versus Free Seed Low Dose Rate
Implants
Advances and Emerging Technologies in
Brachytherapy
-Nomograms
-Combination IMRT and Brachytherapy
- Audience Interactive Challenging Cases