ECIO 2025 in Rotterdam was impressive, engaging, and intellectually stimulating.
The congress organizers did a great job as usual of continuously evolving the topics to focus on what is happening in IR now, and more importantly, in the future.
CAS-One IR has again had an impressive showing. There were 10 posters featuring CAS-One IR. Thanks to the authors who felt their cases and implementation of Quality Ablation was compelling enough to share - below are the links (CIRSE login required).
P-001 / Renal Cell Carcinoma treated with stereotactic Cryoablation – C. Neumann
P-004 / Two probe MWA of RCC lesions in different locations – A. Farkas
P-023 / MW ablation of recurrence close to an old ablation zone – H. Kopf
P-025 / Quality Ablation of five rectal cancer liver metastases – A. Farkas
P-029 / Precision Brachytherapy with Stereotactic Navigation – A. Kovacs
P-030 / IRE and MWA of several CRLM in the same session – M. Beermann
P-034 / Five invisible liver lesions treated with stereotactic ablation – M. Rasmussen
On the podium, the most notable inclusion of CAS-One IR was in the Stereotactic Ablation of the Kidney session by Dr. Raul Garcia from La Fe Hospital in Valencia (ES).
The audience could see the patient positioning, planning, and ablation confirmation on a number of cases that Dr. Garcia shared.
The whole presentation can be seen here.
Prof. Dimitris Filippiadis (Athens, GR) also highlighted some CAS-One IR use in MSK indications. He noted the value in the segmentation of the tumors as well as planning of multi-needle cryoablation cases. The presentation can be seen here.
At the CAS-One booth, the Clinical Application Team barely had time for a break. Constant demos were given as IRs began to understand the value of planning and ablation confirmation.
This has been a mindset change over talking about “navigation” which is perhaps the least interesting part of CAS-One IR.
The new 4.3 software was shown – with integrated Oblique MPR view to make it easier for IRs to plan and see tumors and plan ideal trajectories. More segmentation features have been added, as well as tumor measurements also have been added (volume, max diameter of both the lesion and the planned margin). This new version will be released soon.
The CAS-One IR challenge appeared at its 8th Congress as participants competed for the chocolate prizes as well as bragging rights.
Participants had to estimate the ablation coverage of both a tumor, and a margin, as well as plan a reablation using landmarks. Over 100 people have now participated in the challenge!
Congratulations to Professor Shu-Huei Shen from Veterans General Hospital (TW) for winning, and Dr. Donatas Jocius from Vilnius University Hospital (LT) for a second place finish, and Dr. Boglarka Toth from Semmelweis University Hospital (HU) for third place.
We look forward to coming up with a new challenge at CIRSE in Barcelona.