Stefan Ecker won the GEC ESTRO award for best junior presentation at the ESTRO 2023 for his work entitled "EviGUIDE A tool for evidence based decision making in image guided adaptive brachytherapy”.
The software tool EviGUIDE should enhance the traditional treatment planning workflow in radiation oncology. It combines dosimetric information from the treatment planning system, patient and treatment characteristics and established tumor control probability, and normal tissue complication probability models, to extend the assessment of treatment plan quality beyond adherence to rigid dose objectives
The concept was demonstrated for the treatment of cervical cancer using combined external beam radiotherapy and magnetic resonance image guided adaptive brachytherapy