About the ESTRO
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ESTRO, The European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, was founded in Milano in September 1980 as a Society of individual members working in the field of radiotherapy and oncology. Its principal objectives are to:
- Foster radiation oncology in all its aspects
- Develop benchmarks and methodologies for the quality assurance of radiation oncology in Europe and stimulate their implementation
- Improve the standards of cancer care by inscribing radiation oncology as a clinical specialty in the multidisciplinary approach to cancer treatment
- Promote international exchange of scientific information on radiotherapy & oncology and related fields of science such as radiophysics and radiobiology and stimulate research
- Develop guidelines for education and best practice in radiation oncology and associated professions
- Establish relationships and co-operation with international, regional and national societies and bodies in the field of radiation Oncology.
ESTRO membership
- Junior membership: open to medical doctors, physicists or biologists in a specialisation training in the field of radiation oncology, which will make them eligible for full membership
- Full membership: is open to individual radiation oncology professionals worldwide (physicians, physicists, biologists and other scientists whose main field of activity is in radiation oncology) irrespective of their country of residence. Candidates need to be nominated by 2 ESTRO members and to join their CVs. Applicants who are already member of a society pursuing the same goals as ESTRO are exempt from this requirement. Full members are entitled to all the privileges of ESTRO membership, including voting rights.
- Full membership (technologists): open to technologists or those with appropriate professional training acting as technologists. Only for this membership category the subscription to the journal “Radiotherapy and Oncology” as part of the membership fee is optional.
- Emeritus membership: open to retired ESTRO members. They are not required to pay a membership fees, but enjoy all the privileges of ESTRO membership (see overleaf) except for the subscription to the Journal "Radiotherapy and Oncology".
The membership fee:
Covers the calendar year from 1 January to 31 December.
For 2007 following rates were approved by the General Assembly:
Membership Fees 2007 | |
Full members (mailing address within Europe) | 130 EURO* |
Full members (mailing address outside Europe**) | 165 EURO* |
Full members (technologists)(no subscription to journal) | 30 EURO |
Full members (technologists) (including subscripttion to journal) | 75 EURO* |
Junior members | 100 EURO* |
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All persons from the following countries can apply for membership with a simplified electronic version of "Radiotherapy and Oncology" with a membership fee of 40€*:
Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Cost, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldavia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi-Arabia, Senegal, Serbia Montenegro, Slovak Republic, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
*These fees include the subscription to the Journal of the Society "Radiotherapy and Oncology". Subscriptions to the journal follow the calendar year. When applying for membership please specify whether you want your membership to start in the current year or from 1 January of the next year. In the first case, you will receive the back issues of the journal for that year. Payments received after October 1 will automatically be carried forward to the following year unless otherwise requested.
**The difference in fee for members outside Europe is based only on the need to cover the additional mailing costs.
ESTRO membership entitles to
A subscription to "Radiotherapy and Oncology", the monthly journal of the Society devoted to radiation oncology as well as its supplements: the abstract books of ESTRO meetings.
- "ESTRO-NEWS" - the Newsletter of the society containing useful scientific and professional information.
- A substantial reduction on registration fees for ESTRO Meetings and Courses.
- ESTRO-Varian Awards for research in radiobiology, radiation physics, radiation technology and clinical radiotherapy.
- ESTRO Fresenius Supportive Care Award (in the field of clinical radiotherapy, enteral and parenteral nutrition, pain management)
- ESTRO-Nucletron Brachytherapy Award for the best abstract submitted for the GEC-ESTRO brachytherapy Meeting.
- Nucletron and Siemens Travel Grants to encourage participation by junior members to ESTRO Meetings and Teaching Courses.
- The Jack Fowler award for the best junior abstract submitted for the Biennial Physics meeting in odd years and for the Annual ESTRO meetings in even years
- ESTRO Technology Transfer Grants for short visits to a department in an other country
- Siemens Meeting Fellowships for Central and Eastern Europe to attend the ESTRO Annual Meeting or the Biennial Physics Meeting
- a 30% reduction on registration fees for the courses of the European School of Oncology.
- a 30% reduction on the subscription to the "European Journal of Cancer".
- special discounts on selected books.
- access to “members corner” on ESTRO website
Personal data collected on this document will be used for the ESTRO membership directory and to keep you informed of future ESTRO activities and important deadlines. As required by the Belgian privacy protection law dated December 8, 1992, you are entitled to view your personal record and to remove or modify data in it. You can do that either through contacting the ESTRO membership administrator or through direct web access using your unique member access code. The ESTRO members-only corner also allows you to network with colleagues sharing the same interests. For this purpose you are invited to submit on line your member’s profile.
Please apply for membership on-line: www.estro.be, members corner, join ESTRO
ESTRO board and committees (2007)
President: | M. Baumann (Sutton) |
Past-President: | M. Brada (London) |
President-elect: | V. Grégoire (Brussels) |
Executive Administrator: | U. Ricardi (Torino) |
Editor in Chief 'Radiotherapy and Oncology': | J. Overgaard (Århus) |
Board Members:
B. Davis (Zürich)
J. Dobbs (London), secretary
D. Georg (Wien)
J. Giralt (Barcelona)
G. Kantor (Bordeaux)
P. Lukas (Innsbruck)
Ph. Poortmans (Tilburg)
H. Stankusova (Praha), treasurer
N. Willich (Münster)
Chairpersons Committees
Radiobiologists: | H.P. Rodemann (Tübingen) |
GEC/ESTRO: | E. Van Limbergen (Leuven) |
EBR: | J.W.H. Leer (Nijmegen) |
Education: | R. Pötter (Vienna) |
RTT: | A. Osztavics (Vienna) |
Newsletter: | F. Mornex (Lyon) |
Physicists: | D. Thwaites (Edinburgh) |
Clinical Committee | D. Hollywood (Ireland) |
EQUAL | H. Svensson (Stockholm) |
Radiotherapy 2004 | W. Van den Bogaert (Leuven) |
European Institute | V. Khoo, B. Mijnheer |
ESTRO Meetings
Each year, ESTRO organises several scientific meetings, reviewing advances in radiotherapy and oncology and encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to the management of cancer patients.
Previous meetings
Annual Meetings | |||
London (1982) | London (1989) | Wien (1996) | Copenhagen (2003) |
Bordeaux (1983) | Montecatini (1990) | Hamburg (1997) | Amsterdam (2004) |
Jerusalem (1984) | Firenze (1991) | Edinburgh (1998) | Paris (2005) |
Stockholm (1985) | Malmö (1992) | Wien (1999) | Leipzig (2006) |
Baden-Baden (1986) | Jerusalem (1993) | Istanbul (2000) | |
Lisboa (1987) | Granada (1994) | Lisboa (2001) | |
Den Haag (1988) | Paris (1995) | Praha (2002) | |
Brachytherapy meetings | |||
Antwerpen (1990) | York (1995) | Washington (2000) | Budapest (2005) |
Baden-Baden (1991) | Tours (1996) | Stresa (2001) | Montpellier (2007) |
Nancy (1992) | Stockholm (1997) | Antalya (2002) | |
Venezia (1993) | Napoli (1998) | Lübeck (2003) | |
Linz (1994) | Zeist (1999) | Barcelona (2004) | |
Radiation Physics Meetings | |||
Budapest (1991) | Nice (1997) | Geneva (2003) | |
Praha (1993) | Göttingen (1999) | Lisboa (2005) | |
Gardone (1995) | Sevilla (2001) | Barcelona (2007) | |
Other Meetings |
Benign Disease, Brussels (1999) |
Future ESTRO meetings:
2007
International Meeting on Innovative Approaches in Head and Neck Oncology, Barcelona, 22-24 February
GEC/ESTRO Brachytherapy Meeting, Montpellier, 10-12 May
10th International Wolfsberg Meeting on Molecular Radiation Biology/Oncology (in association with ESTRO), Wolfsberg, 12-14 May
9th Biennial ESTRO Meeting on Physics and Radiation Technology for Clinical Radiotherapy, Barcelona, 8-13 September
ECCO15, The European Cancer Conference (ESTRO 26), Barcelona, 23-17 September
ESTRO education programme 2007 | |
January 14-18 | Multidisciplinary Teaching Course on Prostate Cancer, Gent, Belgium |
March 25-29 | RT Treatment Planning: Principles and Practice, Dublin, Ireland |
March 25-29 | Modern Brachytherapy Techniques, Como, Italy |
April 29 - May 3 | Molecular Oncology for the Radiation Oncologist, Estoril, Portugal |
April 29 - May 3 | Dose Calculation and Verification of External Beams, Budapest, Hungary |
May 21-23 | Evidence and Research in Rectal Cancer, Rome, Italy |
May 27-31 | Imaging for Target Volume Determination in RT, Izmir, Turkey |
June 3-7 | Basic Clinical Radiobiology, Beijing, China |
June 24-26 | Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer, Prague, Czech Republic |
July 1-5 | IMRT and Other Conformal Techniques in Practice, Vienna, Austria |
July 1-5 | Evidence-based RO: Methodol. Basis and Clinic. Applications, Krakow, Poland |
August 22-25 | 3D Planning and Imaging, St Petersburg, Russia |
Aug. 30 - Sept. 1 | Brachytherapy for Gynaecological Malignancies, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Sept. 30- Oct. 4 | Radiotherapy with Protons and Ions, Heidelberg, Germany |
October 14-18 | Basic Clinical Radiobiology, Giardini Naxos, Italy |
October 21-25 | Physics for Clinical Radiotherapy, Limassol, Cyprus |
November 11-15 | Evidence-based RO: Methodol. Basis and Clinic. Applic., Athens, Greece |
December 9-13 | Image-Guided Radiotherapy in Clinical Practice, Brussels, Belgium |
