2025 Annual Refresher Course - eContouring for Breast

This session will focus on evidence-based breast cancer contouring practices. We will cover accelerated partial breast irradiation, whole breast contouring with considerations for different fractionation schedules, breast boost volumes including simultaneous integrated boosts, regional nodal irradiation volumes including internal mammary nodal boosts, and how volumes may differ when IMRT versus 3-D photon vs. electron techniques are used.

Target Audience

The session is designed to meet the interests of practicing radiation oncologists, radiation oncology residents, medical and clinical physicists, radiation therapists, radiation dosimetrists, nurses and all other health professionals involved in the field of radiation oncology.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Identify resources for breast cancer contouring.
  • Describe and perform contouring for accelerated partial breast and regional nodal cases.
  • Describe and perform contouring for simultaneous integrated boost cases.

 

 

 

Course summary
Course opens: 
03/26/2025
Course expires: 
04/20/2027
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

Christina Chapman, MD, MS is employed by Baylor College of Medicine.

The person(s) above served as the developer(s) of this activity. Additionally, the 2025 ASTRO Annual Refresher Course Program Committee had control over the content of this activity. All relevant relationships have been mitigated.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Price

Cost:
$0.00
Please login or register to take this course.

Course Fees:

This eContouring course is included in your 2025 Annual Refresher Course registration.

Policies:
No refunds, extensions, or substitutions will be made for those participants who, for any reason, have not completed the course by the end of the qualification date. The qualification date for each course is listed in the course catalog on the ASTRO website under availability.

The course and its materials will only be available on the ASTRO website until March 31, 2026, regardless of purchase date. At the expiration of the qualification, participants will no longer have access to the course or its materials. ASTRO reserves the right to remove a course before the end of its qualification period.

Required Hardware/software

One of the two latest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari.