Intraoperative radiotherapy experts have met up in GMV’s Tres Cantos head office to review the present and future technology in the interests of upgrading procedures, especially the planning aspects, of the world’s only intraoperative radiotherapy planner, radiance.

In the 1^st radiance workshop, held on 9 and 10 February, radiophysicists, engineers and physicians from various European hospitals, research centers and universities like Mannheim University Hospital (Germany), the University Cancer Institute of Toulouse Oncopole (Institut universitaire du cancer de Toulouse Oncopole), the University Hospital of Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín and the Physical Science Faculty of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid have all swapped notes, compared proposals and the conclusions drawn from their work in applying intraoperative radiation therapy to tumors of the skin, breast, brain, stomach, intestine and backbone.

Their inputs and insights have helped to design the technology that will allow us to upgrade the technology’s therapeutic possibilities and ensure its safe application.

In the words of Stéphane Giaconia, Global Product Manager of Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, "There is no shadow of a doubt that radiance represents the future of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT), helping healthcare providers to take healthcare to the next level. Using this new tool the radiation oncologist and the medical physicist can simulate and plan the necessary ionizing radiation doses to eradicate the tumor without harming surrounding healthy tissue ".