10th October 2008
Programme of the Official Opening of Brachytherapy Department
11.00 – 11.10 Prof. Julian Malicki – Director of Greater Poland Cancer
Center – Welcome
11.10 – 11.40 Prof. Christian Kirisits (Division Medical Radiation
Physics, Department of Radiotherapy, AKH Wien-MUW) – “Precision of modern brachy-therapy – Image guidance, treatment planning and dose delivery”
11.40 – 12.10 Prof. Peter J. Hoskin (Mount Vernon Cancer Centre,
Rickmansworth Road, Northwood, UK) – “High dose rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer”
12.10 – 12.30 Brygida Białas, PhD, MD (Brachytherapy Department of
Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Poland) – “Gynaecologic brachytherapy – from Manchester to
HDR”
12.30 – 13.00 Jarosław Łyczek, PhD, MD (Brachytherapy Department,
Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warszawa, Poland) – “Intraoperative brachytherapy - blind street or new way
for retroperitoneal locally advanced tumors”
13.00 Visit to the Brachytherapy Department – Janusz Skowronek, PhD, MD, Ass. Prof.
13.30 Lunch
The Ceremony will be held in Poznan in the Greater Poland Cancer Centre
at 15 Garbary Street (Auditorium Room, 6th floor).
We are looking forward to seeing you in Poznan.
Prof. Julian Malicki
The Director of Greater Poland Cancer Centre
The Director of Greater Poland Cancer Centre
Assoc. Prof. Janusz Skowronek
The Head of Brachytherapy Department
The Head of Brachytherapy Department