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David Eaton - Electronic brachytherapy: an overview
18 Sep 2020
From the BIR's 2020 event 'Brachytherapy – an update on current UK practice'.
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This exciting half-day virtual event provided updates for best practice for gynaecological and prostate brachytherapy from leading clinicians in the field. Radiotherapy experts explained the best way to plan these treatments. Furthermore, an overview of emerging techniques / treatment accuracy / safety was presented.
Who should watch?: Oncologists / therapy radiographers / radiotherapy physicist of all grades from trainees to consultants.
Educational aims:
- To be aware of current best practice for gynaecological brachytherapy
- To be aware of the current most likely causes of errors and incidents in brachytherapy in the UK
Watch the video and complete the online self-reflection form. Go to "My events" to download your certificate. You must login to watch the video and receive CPD.
Duration:25 mins
Speaker info
David Eaton
David Eaton is the Head of Radiotherapy Physicist at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital in London. He studied initially at the University of Cambridge, where he later received his PhD for work in intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT). He has worked in a number of clinical radiotherapy departments around the UK, and was also the lead physicist for the national radiotherapy trials quality assurance group (RTTQA). Research interests have included IORT, practical radiation dosimetry, radiation protection, and clinical trials QA, leading to about 50 publications and 10 book chapters. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), and member of the BIR leadership SIG.