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1 第 2 屆 台 灣 - 日 本 高 精 度 放 射 線 治 療 研 討 會 The 2 nd Taiwan-Japan Conference on the High Precision Radiation Therapy 議 程 Program The 2 nd Taiwan-Japan Conference on the High Precision Radiation Therapy 7 Information Program Keynote I Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Symposium1 Keynote II Session 4 Session 5 Symposium2 Contonrin

2 July 19 th, Saturday 08:30 ~ 08:45 Opening Remarks Sang-Hue Yen ( 顏 上 惠 ) Chairman, Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital Katsuyuki Karasawa ( 唐 澤 克 之 ) Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital Ji-Hong Hong ( 洪 志 宏 ) President, TASTRO, and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou Yasumasa Nishimura ( 西 村 恭 昌 ) President, JASTRO, and Kinki University Faculty of Medicine 08:45 ~ 09:15 Keynote Speech I Sang -Hue Yen ( 顏 上 惠 ) -Taipei Veterans General Hospital 14 Adaptive IMRT for Head and Neck Cancer in Japan Yasumasa Nishimura ( 西 村 恭 昌 ) -Kinki University Faculty of Medicine 09:15 ~ 10:05 Session 1: Head & Neck cancer and Brain Tumor Jin-Ching Lin ( 林 進 清 ) - Taichung Veterans General Hospital Takeshi Kodaira ( 古 平 毅 ) -Aichi Cancer Center Hospital 15 Concurrent Intra-artery Chemotherapy and Simultaneous In-field Boost by Radiation Therapy for Advanced Head & Neck Cancer Li-Chu Pai ( 白 立 柱 ) / Stephen Wan Leung ( 梁 雲 ) -Pingtung Hospital 16 Aichi Cancer Experience of Chemo-IMRT using Helical Tomotherapy for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. Takeshi Kodaira ( 古 平 毅 ) -Aichi Cancer Center Hospital 17 Volumetric and Dosimetric Changes of Parotid Glands in 2 Step IMRT for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Chiyoko Makita ( 牧 田 智 誉 子 ) -Aichi Cancer Center Hospital 18 Treatment Results and Prognostic Factors for Intracranial Nongerminomatous Germ Cell tumors: Single Institute Experience I-Chun Lai ( 賴 宜 君 ) -Taipei Veterans General Hospital 8 The 2 nd Taiwan-Japan Conference on the High Precision Radiation Therapy

3 10:05 ~ 10:30 Session 2: Particle Therapy Ji-Hong Hong ( 洪 志 宏 ) -Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou Yusuke Demizu ( 出 水 祐 介 ) -Hyogo Ion Beam Center 19 A Progress Report of Chang Gung Proton and Radiation Therapy Centerthe First Proton Facility in Taiwan Ji-Hong Hong ( 洪 志 宏 ) -Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou 20 Comparison between Proton Therapy and Carbon Ion Therapy: the Hyogo Experience Yusuke Demizu ( 出 水 祐 介 ) -Hyogo Ion Beam Center 10:30~10:40 Coffee Break 10:40 ~ 11:30 Session 3: Prostate and Gynecologic Cancer Yu-Ming Liu ( 劉 裕 明 ) -Taipei Veterans General Hospital Jun Itami ( 伊 丹 純 ) -National Cancer Center Hospital 21 Ten-Year Outcomes of Permanent Iodine-125 Seed Implantation Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer in Japan Shiro Saito ( 齊 藤 志 郎 ) -Tokyo Medical Center 22 IMRT Made Less Toxic When Used in Combination with Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer Atsunori Yorozu ( 萬 篤 憲 ) -Tokyo Medical Center 23 Reirradiation of Gynecologic Malignancies by Interstitial Radiation Therapy (ISRT) Jun Itami ( 伊 丹 純 ) -National Cancer Center Hospital 24 Impact of Bladder-Filling Change on Cervix-Uterus Motion in Cervical Cancer Patients Chao-Yuan Huang ( 黃 昭 源 ) -National Taiwan University Hospital 11:30~12:30 Symposium Speech: Liver Cancer Jason Chia-Hsien Cheng ( 成 佳 憲 ) -National Taiwan University Hospital Katsuyuki Karasawa ( 唐 澤 克 之 ) -Komagome Hospital The 2 nd Taiwan-Japan Conference on the High Precision Radiation Therapy 9 Information Program Keynote I Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Symposium1 Keynote II Session 4 Session 5 Symposium2 Contonrin

4 25 SRBT for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: the Cheng-Ching General Hospital Experience Po-Ming Wang ( 王 博 民 ) -Chung-Kang branch, Cheng-Ching General Hospital 26 Current Status of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Japan Tomoki Kimura ( 木 村 智 樹 ) -Hiroshima University Hospital 13:10 ~ 13:40 Keynote Speech II 12:30~13:10 Luncheon Stephen Wan Leung ( 梁 雲 ) -Yuan's General Hospital 27 Dynamic Tumor Tracking SBRT and IMRT with Real-time Monitoring: The First Clinical Experiences Masahiro Hiraoka ( 平 岡 真 寬 ) -Kyoto Graduate School of Medicine 13:40 ~ 14:40 Session 4: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Po-Ming Wang ( 王 博 民 ) -Chung-Kang branch, Cheng-Ching General Hospital Keiji Nihei ( 二 瓶 圭 二 ) -Komagome Hospital 28 Clinical Outcomes of Cyberknife Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma Jenny Que ( 郭 珍 妮 )/ Li-Ching Lin ( 林 立 青 ) -Chi Mei Medical Center 29 Repeated stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Using Cyberknife for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cheng-Hsiang Lo ( 羅 承 翔 )/ Yee-Min Jen ( 任 益 民 ) -Tri-Service General Hospital 30 Multi-Institutional Planning Study for Spine Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Japan Hiroshi Tanaka ( 田 中 寬 ) -Komagome Hospital 31 Clinical Experience of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Large-Volume Spinal Tumors Kei Ito ( 伊 藤 慶 ) -Komagome Hospital 32 SABR for Lung Cancer: Preliminary Experiences in CMUH (China Medical University Hospital) : an Updated Report Chun-Ru Chien ( 簡 君 儒 ) -China Medical University Hospital 10 The 2 nd Taiwan-Japan Conference on the High Precision Radiation Therapy

5 14:40 ~ 15:40 Session 5: Special Technique and Physics Yi-Wei Chen ( 陳 一 瑋 ) -Taipei Veterans General Hospital Satoshi Kito ( 木 藤 哲 史 ) -Komagome Hospital 33 IMRT for Angiosarcoma of the Scalp Using TomoTherapy: Planning Study and the Initial Results Katsuyuki Karasawa ( 唐 澤 克 之 ) -Komagome Hospital 34 An Innovative Approach of Tomotherapy for Special Cancer Treatment: From Coring to Peeling the Target Pei-Wei Shueng ( 熊 佩 韋 ) -Far Eastern Memorial Hospital 35 PET Guided Concurrent Chemotherapy and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Stage III Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Helen H.W. Chen ( 陳 海 雯 ) -National Cheng Kung University Hospital 36 The Development of the Software to Analyze the Fiducial Markers for Dynamic Tracking Therapy Satoshi Kito ( 木 藤 哲 史 ) -Komagome Hospital 37 Total Body Irradiation with Step Translation and Dynamic Field Matching Ho-Hsing Chen ( 陳 合 興 ) -Taichung Veterans General Hospital 15:40~16:40 Symposium Speech: Prostate Cancer Ji-Hong Hong ( 洪 志 宏 ) -Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou Atsunori Yorozu ( 萬 篤 憲 ) -Tokyo Medical Center 38 Current Role of Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer Yu-Ming Liu ( 劉 裕 明 ) -Taipei Veterans General Hospital 39 Current Status of High Precision Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Keiji Nihei ( 二 瓶 圭 二 ) -Komagome Hospital 16:40 Closing Remarks 16:50 Dinner banquet (invited guests) The 2 nd Taiwan-Japan Conference on the High Precision Radiation Therapy 11 Information Program Keynote I Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Symposium1 Keynote II Session 4 Session 5 Symposium2 Contonrin

6 July 20 th, Sundny 09:00 ~ 09:50 Tumor Contouring- Nasopharyneal Cancer Cheng-Ying Shiau ( 蕭 正 英 ) -Taipei Veterans General Hospital 09:00~09:25 Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang ( 張 東 杰 ) -Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou 09:25 ~ 09:50 Takeshi Kodaira ( 古 平 毅 ) -Aichi Cancer Center Hospital 09:50~10:10 Coffee Break 10:10 ~ 11:00 Tumor Contouring- Hypopharyngeal Cancer Cheng-Ying Shiau ( 蕭 正 英 ) -Taipei Veterans General Hospital 10:10 ~ 10:35 Wen-Shan Liu ( 劉 文 山 ) -Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital 10:35 ~ 11:00 Chiyoko Makita ( 牧 田 智 誉 子 ) -Aichi Cancer Center Hospital 11:00 TASTRO and JASTRO Communication Future prospects of mutual communication and collaboration between TASTRO and JASTRO 12:00 Closing 12 The 2 nd Taiwan-Japan Conference on the High Precision Radiation Therapy

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