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2008 Annual Meeting
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Radiobiological Aspects of Moving Away From 2Gy
Track : EDU
Program Code: EDU108
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008
Time: 4:15 PM to 5:45 PM  EST
Duration: 3470 Minutes
Location: 257
SPEAKER:
William McBride, D.Sc., Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair, Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

LEARNER OUTCOMES:
  • Adapt fractionation schedules with fraction sizes ranging between 1 and 8 Gy according to changing clinical needs
  • Discuss the difference between acute and late reacting normal tissues and tumors, accelerated repopulation in normal and tumor tissue, and other factors that need to be taken into account when designing fractionation schedules
  • Explain the logic behind the most currently used fractionation schedules
  • Interpret dose volume histograms and the consequences for TCP, NTCP and combined modality treatment, and understand their limitations

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