2023 CARO-COMP Joint Scientific Meeting

Thank you to everyone who joined us! 

The theme for the 2023 CARO-COMP JSM was Interprofessional Collaboration: Better Together.

September 20-23, 2023

Our program objectives were:

• Understand the importance of interprofessional collaboration for the delivery of high-quality.

• Patient-centered cancer care; apply evidence-based recommendations for the implementation of advanced radiotherapy techniques.

• Describe current Canadian-led research initiatives within radiation oncology, medical physics, radiation therapy, and allied health.

• Discuss challenges and opportunities related to equity, inclusivity, and access to radiotherapy in Canada.

• 2023 Award Winners

  Radiation Oncology Resident Awards

  Best of the Resident Oral Presentation Session
  Winner: #3 Eric Zhao - Plasma EBV DNA in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) treated with definitive radiotherapy

  Best Resident Poster Presentation
  Winner: Bayan Malakouti-Nejad - Recurrence rates and patterns in locally advanced cervical cancer in the IMRT era: a single institution experience

  Best Oral Presentation on Brachytherapy for Resident or Fellow
  Winner: #47 Raphael Rezhallah - Long-term disease-free survival and health-related quality of life results of high-dose-rate brachytherapy as monotherapy for low and intermediate-risk prostate cancer treated in a community cancer centre

  Jean Roy Resident Memorial Award
  Winner: Matthew Volpini

  CARO Open Awards Best Abstract in Clinical and Population-based Oncology
  Winner: Donna Liao - #1 Analysis of hodgkin's lymphoma patients with incomplete metabolic response after first-line systemic therapy

  Best Abstract in Survivorship Award
  Winner: Ella Mae Cruz-Lim - #31 Prospective longitudinal assessment of quality of life after stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for oligometastases: analysis of the population-based sabr-5 Phase II trial

  Best Abstract in Supportive Care Award
  Winner: Vanessa Di Lalla #92 - Hypofractionated dose-intensified palliative radiotherapy: 25 gy in 5 fractions for enhanced symptom control

• Conference Program

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• The Green Journal

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Thank you to all of our 2023 Sponsors and Exhibitors!