59. Annual Conference of The Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group

The world-wide pandemic continues to challenge our ability to communicate effectively with our colleagues and to enable us to join together and develop the future directions. PTCOG is a conduit for the Particle Therapy community to Cooperate and has worked to provide opportunities to maintain continuity. Our PTCOG 2020 Online meeting was highly successful with positive comments from all Particle Therapy professionals including the exhibition and sponsors. We have continued to provide modest funding for projects that can be done under the constraints of the pandemic, and this year we congratulate Ray Mailhot and his colleagues who earned funding for “Individualizing and Optimizing Proton Therapy Consolidation in the Management of Lymphoma”. Most of our topical Subcommittees are remaining active, and the Thoracic Subcommittee will soon be submitting yet another manuscript for publication. Still, our community thrives from physical contact amongst our colleagues and collaborative developments, which are presently challenged.

While we are encouraged about the news of approved vaccines it is not fully clear what the timescale might be for full world-wide immunization and when international travel will return to normal. For this reason, combined with some regions of the world experiencing increasing infection rates, organising a regular live PTCOG meeting in 2021 unfortunately remains unpredictable. However, we want to try to provide the connectivity that we miss so much and have learned more about this from our experiences in the past year.

With that we announce the 59th Annual Conference of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group will now be held from Friday to Tuesday June 4-7, 2021.

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