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FALCON
Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation and CONtouring
FALCON is the ESTRO’s comprehensive contouring training programme aimed at improving
the delineation skills of radiation oncology professionals, and at contributing to better treatment
planning for cancer patients receiving radiotherapy.
FALCON provides interactive teaching in tumour target, OAR contouring and uses for this
purpose Educase, a web based treatment simulation software.
LIVE COURSES ANDWORKSHOPS
ESTRO started implementing Educase, FALCON’s contouring tool, in its live teaching programmes in 2010. Since
then the software has been used in 50 clinically orientated and/or image focused live courses and 35 hands-on
delineation workshops at annual ESTRO conferences. More than 4,000 radiation oncology professionals have
benefited from such interactive training.
ONLINE WORKSHOPS
In 2012, ESTRO organised the first online FALCONworkshop. Online workshops can include 20-30 participants
and are conducted through web-conferences over a time span of three weeks. The sessions are very interactive and
offer the opportunity to set side by side delineations from participants and experts and discuss the interobserver
variability and the available guidelines.
The number of online workshops has gradually increased and in 2016, a full annual programme of ten workshops
on different tumour sites (breast, prostate, gynaecology, head and neck, organs at risk, lymphoma, oesophagus,
CNS, lung and paediatric oncology) was available for radiation oncology professionals worldwide to participate in.
FALCON
Fellowship inAnatomicdeLineation&CONtouring
Group contour results at week 1 (left) and week 2 (right) of a FALCON online workshop in breast cancer. Note the improvement of the group contours
(orange) with respect to the author contours (green) in week 2.
ESTROOnline Educational Resources and Tools