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Introduction
ESTRO is well known for the quality of its education and teaching programmes. This is reflected in the demand
for these activities by professionals not only from Europe but worldwide. Hence the Society continuously ame-
liorates and diversifies the portfolio of these programmes, be they courses or conferences, to meet the needs of
professionals in the radiation oncology and allied community seeking to better their skills to improve patient care.
The ESTRO School comes with over 30 years of experience of developing and running courses. These range from
basic to advanced level to cater to the different skills needed by professionals at varying levels of career develop-
ment. In 2017, 36 courses are on offer; the majority will be held in Europe and four in Asia. The details of each
course are presented in this 2017 Guide.
Over the years, ESTRO has also expanded its e-learning platform for use in online workshops and live courses
through the FALCON - Fellowship in Anatomic deLineation and CONtouring programme. The online workshops
also give a chance to those professionals who cannot afford to take time away from their work place and home,
to further improve their tumour delineation skills for better treatment planning. I am happy to inform you that
the number of FALCON workshops has increased for 2017 and several tumour sites form part of the programme.
Peer-reviewed information on all our education material, conferences and projects is continuously added to our
virtual library DOVE (Dynamic Oncology Virtual ESTRO). So increasing your radiation oncology knowledge
is but a click away.
Of utmost importance to us involved within the radiation oncology disciplines, is our annual conference ESTRO
36 which will take place in Vienna in May. As usual the meeting is a great opportunity for networking and it
also draws attention to the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary components of our practice, with emphasis
on the new opportunities that they represent for all professionals of oncology, not only in research but also in
the daily care of patients.
In its quest for the further development of radiotherapy, ESTRO continues to collaborate with other societies to
advance multidisciplinary cancer care. In 2017 ESTROwill jointly collaborate with other societies on a number of
conferences: ECCO2017, a focal point event in multidisciplinary cancer care that will zero in on Phase II practice
changing data; ELCC 2017 (7th European lung cancer conference) that brings together top academic experts in
lung cancer and thoracic malignancies, co-organised by ESMO and IASLC; ICHNO (6th International Conference
on Innovative Approaches in Head & Neck Oncology) for head and neck cancer specialists, jointly organised
by ESTRO, ESMO and EHNS; EMUC (9th European Meeting on Urological Cancers) for uro-oncology experts,
partnered by ESMO, ESTRO and EAU.
The autumn of 2017 will be marked by the 5th GEC-ESTRO workshop, an opportunity for brachytherapy enthu-
siasts to get together and exchange ideas.
For all the above activities, watch out during the year for information and updates on our website (www.estro.
org) and also the monthly ESTRO Flash, Facebook and Twitter.