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  • Help Ukraine Group organized a successful session on Ukraine at ASTRO annual meeting 2023. Many thanks to ASTRO for hosting the session and providing free registration for 7 Ukrainian radiation oncologists and medical physicists! Loads of gratitude to the speakers: Ruslan Zelinskyi, Andriy Hanych, Zoia Shepil, Roman Kizyma, Yulia Lozko, Serhii Brovchuk, Nataliya Kovalchuk. Dr….


  • Help Ukraine Group organized a delegation of 7 radiation oncologists and medical physicists at #ASTRO2023: 1. Ruslan Zelinskyi, Spizhenko Clinic, Kyiv 2. Serhii Brovchuk, Kyiv Regional Cancer Center, Kyiv 3. Zoia Shepil, Kyiv Regional Cancer Center, Kyiv 4. Yuliia Lozko, National Cancer Institute, Kyiv 5. Daryna Semotyuk, Lviv Regional Cancer Center, Lviv 6. Sofiia-Iryna Zaluska,…


  • Two radiation oncologists from Lviv Regional Cancer Center were trained at Stanford Radiation Oncology Department from September 4th to October 1st, 2023. They have participated in all educational activities for radiation oncology residents, attended tumor boards and chart rounds, shadowed physicians in patients’ visits, learned radiotherapy contouring, planning, and plan review. On October 1-3, 2023…


  • After hearing one of HUG’s presentations regarding situation with radiotherapy in Ukraine with the call for action, Ross Koscharsky,  Global Director of ICON Cancer Center at ICON Group responded with the offer to train 2 Ukrainian medical physicists in Australia. A partnership has been born. Natalka Suchowerska, a HUG member and Australia native, together with…


  • Loads of gratitude to the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) SolidarityFund for Ukraine grant and Orfit Industries for providing National Cancer Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine with the necessary immobilization devices for radiotherapy. Help Ukraine Group (HUG) hopes they will benefit many cancer patients in Ukraine. Special thanks to HelpUkraineGroup members, Yuliia Lozko, for the…


  • Stanford Radiation Oncology Clinical Lecture Series #StandWithUkraine starts Sept 6th At the initiative of HUG, the Stanford Radiation Oncology Clinical Lecture series starts on Sept 6th spanning 22 lectures till mid-November. Lectures are given by Stanford radiation oncologists, medical physicists and dosimetrists and should be a providing a  practical overview of radiation oncology practices across…