ScoRRF 12th Annual Scientific Meeting
7th November 2024
Addressing the Challenges of Health Inequalities in Radiotherapy: Spreading the Bragg Peak across Scotland
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CPD credits
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has awarded the following CPD credits for those attending:
RCR Category 1 CPD Credits Awarded: Five (5)
Course Name: Annual Scientific Meeting of the Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum
Getting to the Stirling Court Hotel
Stirling Court Hotel
University of Stirling, Airthrey Rd, Stirling FK9 4LA
Agenda
Addressing the Challenges of Health Inequalities in Radiotherapy: Spreading the Bragg Peak across Scotland
7th November 2024
Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling
10:00 Welcome and introduction
- Anne Kiltie (Aberdeen)
Health Inequalities
Chair: David Noble
10:10 Some Cancer inequalities are more equal than others
- David Morrison
10:30 Rurality and Cancer in Scotland-Unravelling Complexity
- Peter Murchie (Aberdeen)
10:50 The Uneven Battle: Socioeconomic Differences in Head & Neck Cancer Outcomes in Denmark
- Maja Halgren Olsen (Copenhagen)
11:10 COFFEE BREAK
Health Inequalities and Radiotherapy
Chair: Bill Nailon
11:30 Addressing the challenges of health inequalities in radiotherapy
- Yolanda Lievens (Gent)
11:50 Representation in cancer research: the need for real world evidence
- Corinne Faivre-Finn (Manchester)
12:10 Real World Data Driven Improvement in Cancer Care: The RAPID-RT Study
- Gareth Price (Manchester)
12:30 to 13:30: Lunch - Posters and Exhibition
Chair: Aileen Duffton
Proffered Papers
13.30 Daily Adaptive Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
- Brandon Tan (Aberdeen)
13.40 Dietary supplementation prior to radiotherapy enhances short term response in a radioresistant rectal cancer model
- John Falconer (Glasgow)
13.50 ARRT: Augmented Reality and RadioTherapy for Pancreatic Cancer Patient Education
- Courtney Clarkin (Glasgow)
14.00 Investigating the potential of BH3-mimetics as radiosensitisers in a screen of solid cancers
- Nimrit Kaur (Glasgow)
14.10 The impact of a radiographer led digital prehabilitation service for breast cancer patients
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Beth Grandison (Glasgow)
Proton Therapy: Spreading the Bragg Peak Across Scotland
- Chair: Anthony Chalmers
14:30 The NHS UK Proton Journey
- Adrian Crellin (Leeds)
14:50 Pleural Mesothelioma: progressing from platinum to protons
- Paul Shaw (Cardiff)
15:10 Improving Equity of Access to Cancer Trials in Scotland
- Denise Calder (Edinburgh)
15.30 Panel Discussion – How do we get access to these trials in Scotland?
16.00 Closing Remarks
- Anne Kiltie (Aberdeen)
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