Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum

ScoRRF 12th Annual Scientific Meeting

7th November 2024

Addressing the Challenges of Health Inequalities in Radiotherapy: Spreading the Bragg Peak across Scotland

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


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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

  • 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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