On Tuesday 10 December 2024, M. Loi will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy in Rare Cancers‘.
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Tuesday 10 Dec 2024, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Professor Andries Querido room
- Building
- Education Center
- Location
- Erasmus MC
Brief summary:
Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) is an emerging treatment option, delivering highly focused radiation dose with an extremely hypofractionated, ablative dose schedule. SBRT may be of particular interest in rare tumors (less than 15/100.000 cases per year), for whom available systemic treatment options are limited. In this thesis, use of SBRT has been investigated in the setting of rare malignancies either primary tumor (Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer), locoregional metastases (lymphnode metastases from non-prostate primary tumor, LN) and distant metastases (Soft Tissue Sarcoma, STS) . In the LAPC group, additional daily imaging was obtained from a hybrid treatment unit constituted by a Cyberknife integrated with an CT-scanner on rails (Siemens Healthcare, Forchheim, Germany) in order to extract information on daily anatomical variation.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers can access the hall via the fourth floor. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, children under the age of 6 are not allowed during the first part of the ceremony.
