{"id":4764,"date":"2020-09-15T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en-renew\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2020-09-23T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T01:32:02","slug":"japans-cabinet-office-to-hold-virtual-side-event-on-radiation-cancer-therapy-at-iaea-general-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/4764","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Cabinet Office to Hold Virtual Side Event on Radiation Cancer Therapy at IAEA General Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose will be to share internationally, through the online presentation, the current state of research on advanced cancer therapy technology using radiation and accelerators, and on the development of related equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The program will start with keynote presentations by Ms. May Abdel-Wahab, director of the IAEA\u2019s Human Health Division, and Hiroshi Tsuji, MD, Ph.D., director general of the QST Hospital. It will then show technical presentations under the theme of \u201cFrontline of Radiation Oncology Technology Development\u201d prepared by three Japanese manufacturers of radiotherapy equipment: Toshiba Energy Systems &amp; Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), Hitachi, Ltd., and Sumitomo Heavy Industries. The facilitator of the program will be Koji Noda, Ph.D., the executive director of QST.<\/p>\n<p>The IAEA General Assembly in 2020 will be held from September 21 to 25 at IAEA Headquarters in Vienna. This time, due to the spread of COVID-19, ambassadors in Austria will represent their countries, and the General Assembly sessions will be aired live via the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF) will cooperate in the operation of the virtual side event by running a conference via WebEx and offering support in English.<\/p>\n<p>To register to participate in the event, please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/qst.webex.com\/qst\/onstage\/g.php?MTID=e9d75991821ba0b2e990899e1326fad42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THIS WEB PAGE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose will be to share internationally, through the online presentation, the current state of research on advanced cancer therapy technology using radiation and accelerators, and on the development of related equipment. The program will start with keynote presentations by Ms. May Abdel-Wahab, director of the IAEA\u2019s Human Health Division, and Hiroshi Tsuji, MD, Ph.D., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[482,669,682,683,483],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-cabinet-office","tag-heavy-ion-cancer-therapy","tag-iaea-general-conference","tag-online-event","tag-qst"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}