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Guidelines Committee

The ESTRO Guidelines Committee (former Advisory Committee for Radiation Oncology Practice (ACROP)) was formed in December 2012. Its aim is to advise the ESTRO Board and respective ESTRO councils on the following key areas:

  • Development and prioritisation of clinical and technical guidelines in the field of Radiation Oncology.

  • Additional options for ESTRO to contribute to multidisciplinary guidelines involving other professional oncology societies both within Europe (e.g. ECCO) and internationally (e.g. ASTRO, UICC).

  • The potential impact of emerging and draft legislation and/or advisory documentation from the EU that may impact on European Radiation Oncology.

  • Highlight additional initiatives within the EU that may be important to the strategic development of European Radiation Oncology.

  • Strategic assessment of any other documents, guidelines and miscellaneous information that may impact on clinical service development within the discipline of Radiation Oncology.

The Guidelines Committee procedure policy (SOP) can be read here.

To submit a guideline proposal for the consideration of the Guidelines Committee, please fill out the guideline checklist available here and return the completed checklist to Eralda Azizaj.

 

For more information about guidelines

The Guidelines Committee consists of the Chair of the committee; representatives from other ESTRO standing committees and guideline sub-group leaders.

Chair: Fiona McDonald, Clinical Oncologist, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

Clinical Committee representative: Jon Cacicedo, Radiation Oncologist, Cruces University Hospital/Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute (ES)

Physics Committee representative: Coen Hurkmans, Medical Physicist, Catharina Ziekenhuis (NL)

Physics Committee representative: Livia Marrazzo, Medical Physicist, Careggi University Hospital (IT)

Biology Committee representative: Laure Marignol, Biologist, Trinity College Dublin (IE)

RTT Committee representative: Yat Man Tsang, RTT, Princess Margaret Cancer Center (CA)

RTT Committee representative: Rita Simoes, RTT, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

GEC-ESTRO Committee representative: Panagiotis Papagiannis, Medical Physicist, University of Athens (GR)

GEC-ESTRO Committee representative and H&N sub-group leader: Luca Tagliaferri, Radiation Oncologist, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS (IT) 

Lower GI sub-group leader: Antonietta Gambacorta, Radiation Oncologist, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS (IT) 

Upper GI sub-group leader: Falk Röder, Radiation Oncologist, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg (AT)

Breast sub-group leader: Philip Poortmans, Radiation Oncologist, Iridium Kankernetwerk (BE)

Lung sub-group leader: Sara Ramella, Radiation Oncologist, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome (IT)

CNS sub-group leader: Giuseppe Minniti, Radiation Oncologist, University of Siena; IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed (IT)

RTT sub-group leader: Monica Buijs, RTT, NKI (NL)

Skin and soft tissue sub-group leaders: Agata Rembielak, Radiation Oncologist, University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester (UK) and Beate Timmermann, Radiation Oncologist, University Hospital Essen, West German Proton Therapy Centre Essen (WPE), Essen (DE)

Urology sub-group leader: Julia Murray, Clinical Oncologist, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

Education Council Observer: Luca Boldrini, Radiation Oncologist, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS (IT) 

National Societies Committee (NSC) Observer: Banu Atalar, Radiation Oncologist, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University School of Medicine (TR)

Young ESTRO Committee Observer:  Pierre Montay-Gruel, Biologist, Iridium Netwerk, GZA hospital, Universiteit Antwerpen Center for Oncological Research (BE)

 

The committee is contactable through Eralda Azizaj at the ESTRO office.