Anne Laprie, Radiation Oncologist, Professor, Researcher at University Cancer Institute of Toulouse – Oncopole, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Inspiring 3rd morning at ESTRO2026.
40% of cured cancer patients have received radiotherapy at some point in their treatment. Yet across the world, radiotherapy resources remain critically scarce — which makes education and awareness-raising not a luxury, but an urgent priority.
Barbara Jereczek-Fossa laid out the full breadth of what ESTRO school offers: structured courses, annual meetings, targeted workshops, and a growing web of connections with national societies. Our joint membership with SFRO is a good example of how these bridges actually work in practice.
Uulke van der Heide did something that needed to be said out loud: multidisciplinary is not the same as interdisciplinary. Multidisciplinary means everyone does their part. Interdisciplinary means genuine integration — shared thinking, shared language, shared responsibility. His work breaking silos between radiology and radiation oncology is exactly that, and the FLAME trial remains the reference example of what becomes possible when these two worlds truly talk to each other. (If you haven’t read his piece on MRI for radiation oncologists in ctRO, do yourself a favour: MRI basics for radiation oncologists.
The skills that make interdisciplinary work actually work? According to Xu et al. (J Intell, 2022): communication, reflection, and practice. Which, once again, brings us back to ESTRO school.
A session that left me thinking. The science matters. The structures that support it matter just as much.”
Title: MRI basics for radiation oncologists
Authors: Uulke A. van der Heide, Marloes Frantzen-Steneker, Eleftheria Astreinidou, Marlies E. Nowee, Petra J. van Houdt
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