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  • HUG is grateful to ICON Group for training 2 Ukrainian medical physicists in Australia
    September 27, 2023

    HUG is grateful to ICON Group for training 2 Ukrainian medical physicists in Australia

    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…

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  • September 11, 2023

    National Cancer Institute in Kyiv receives the immobilization devices for radiotherapy

    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…

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    National Cancer Institute in Kyiv receives the immobilization devices for radiotherapy
  • Stanford Radiation Oncology Clinical Lecture Series #StandWithUkraine
    September 6, 2023

    Stanford Radiation Oncology Clinical Lecture Series #StandWithUkraine

    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…

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  • September 4, 2023

    Two radiation oncologists from Lviv Regional Cancer Center started training at Stanford

    Stanford Radiation Oncology department welcomes two Ukrainian radiation oncologists from Lviv Regional Cancer Center, Drs. Daryna Semotyuk and Sofiia Zaluska, for a month-long observership. HUG members are grateful to Stanford Global Scholars grant for funding and Stanford Radiation Oncology faculty and Staff for training the visitors. Lviv Regional Cancer Center has recently installed and commissioning…

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    Two radiation oncologists from Lviv Regional Cancer Center started training at Stanford
  • August 23, 2023

    Help Ukraine Group members and trainees present at the UTRO conference in Uzhhorod, Ukraine

    HUG members and trainees presented at the Ukrainian Society of Radiation Oncology (UTRO) conference in Uzhhorod, Ukraine   Yuliia Severyn – “Training experience at Stanford Radiation Oncology department: cranio-spinal irradiation”   Nadiia Honcharenko –  “Advanced radiotherapy technologies and techniques”  Anna Fedorova – “ Medical Physics training experience at ICON Group, Australia: Importance of dosimetry audits“  Oksana Galias…

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    Help Ukraine Group members and trainees present at the UTRO conference in Uzhhorod, Ukraine