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Teaching course: Head & neck cancer 3: rare tumours (12 March 2027)

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Course directors: S. Nuyts (UZ Leuven) + F. Duprez (UZ Gent)

14:00 – 14:30





Sinonasal cancer
– Epidemiology
– Pathology
– Diagnosis
– Therapy: focus on surgery and possible indications for systemic therapy (without RT)
L. Van Gerven (UZ Leuven)





14:30 – 15:00




Salivary gland cancer
– Epidemiology
– Pathology
– Diagnosis
– Therapy: focus on surgery (without RT)
V. Vander Poorten (UZ Leuven)




15:00 – 15:30





Nasopharyngeal cancer
– Epidemiology
– Pathology
– Diagnosis
– Therapy: focus on systemic therapy (induction; concomitant, adjuvant) (without RT)
P. Clement (UZ Leuven)





15:30 – 15:45Break 
15:45 – 16:15




Thyroid cancer
– Epidemiology
– Pathology
– Diagnosis
– Therapy: focus on surgery and I131
M. Wegge (UZ Leuven)




16:15 – 17:15






Role of external RT in sinonasal cancer, salivary gland cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer and thyroid cancer
– Indications
– Dose/fractionation
– Target volume delineation
– RT modalities
S. Nuyts (UZ Leuven)






17:15 – 17:30
General conclusions and questions   

The course materials (slides, articles,…) of this academic year’s edition of the course will be available at the earliest from the Monday preceding the course. Until then, you can consult the materials of the previous edition of this course.

MS Teams link: (will be added one day prior to the course)

Course Content

Presentations: Head & Neck cancer 3: rare tumours – 24 March 2023

FORMAT
The courses are currently held online. In order to increase participation and for attendance to be tracked, participants need to be connected with microphone + camera. If there are no technical problems, the session will be recorded.

PRESENCE
Junior members are required to attend at least 5/7 teaching courses each year, attendance is registered at each session.

PRESENTATIONS
The presentations for the courses will be available on the BeSTRO-website before the course, where they are available exclusively to members. The courses will be recorded and these recordings will also be available on the website after the course

EVALUATION
The educational committee at BeSTRO evaluates the content and organisation of the courses on a yearly basis. After each teaching course, a survey is sent out to all participants in order to provide the educational committee with the necessary feedback to improve the teaching program.