CID at the Heart of Global Medical Innovation: Looking Back at the 64^th PTCOG Congress

Last week, in June 2026, the Centre Inter­na­tion­al de Deau­ville (CID) had the priv­ilege of wel­com­ing the inter­na­tion­al sci­entif­ic com­munity for the 64^th Annu­al Con­gress of the Particle Ther­apy Cooper­at­ive Group (PTCOG). For six days, Deau­ville became the world cap­it­al of had­ron ther­apy, a cut­ting-edge radi­ation treat­ment that uses charged particles to tar­get can­cer with unpar­alleled precision.

An Internationally Significant Event

This major sci­entif­ic gath­er­ing brought togeth­er between 1,500 and 1,800 participants—including onco­lo­gists, phys­i­cists, research­ers, and industry professionals—from around the world to exchange know­ledge and dis­cuss the latest tech­no­lo­gic­al and clin­ic­al advances.

Host­ing such a pres­ti­gi­ous con­gress once again high­lights the abil­ity of Deau­ville and the CID to deliv­er large-scale inter­na­tion­al events. Our teams lever­aged the flex­ib­il­ity of our facil­it­ies, includ­ing the icon­ic ORNANO Grand Aud­it­or­i­um with its 1,500-seat capa­city, as well as our numer­ous break­out rooms, to meet PTCOG’s demand­ing aca­dem­ic and organ­iz­a­tion­al requirements.

A Diverse Program: From Education to Quantum Physics

The con­gress fea­tured sev­er­al key highlights:

• Edu­ca­tion and Know­ledge Trans­fer: The first two days were ded­ic­ated to an intens­ive edu­ca­tion­al pro­gram, includ­ing, for the first time, ded­ic­ated ses­sions for allied health­care pro­fes­sion­als and para­med­ic­al staff.
• Sci­ence and Research: The fol­low­ing three days focused on the sci­entif­ic con­gress itself, cov­er­ing crit­ic­al top­ics such as pan­cre­at­ic can­cer treat­ment and the syn­er­gies between had­ron ther­apy and immunotherapy.
• A Dis­tin­guished Guest: The par­ti­cip­a­tion of Pro­fess­or Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize laur­eate in Phys­ics, was one of the event’s most mem­or­able moments, show­cas­ing the excel­lence of French research and its con­tri­bu­tion to med­ic­al innovation.

Where Technological Excellence Meets the Norman Art of Living

Bey­ond the sci­entif­ic ses­sions, del­eg­ates had the oppor­tun­ity to dis­cov­er the many attrac­tions of the region. A mem­or­able gala even­ing at the Claire­fon­taine Race­course cel­eb­rated loc­al cul­ture and the region’s deep-rooted eques­tri­an her­it­age, provid­ing par­ti­cipants with a unique net­work­ing environment.

The event con­cludes tomor­row, June 13, with an excep­tion­al tech­nic­al vis­it to the Cyc­l­had cen­ter in Caen. Experts will have the oppor­tun­ity to dis­cov­er the “C400,” an ultra-com­pact and highly innov­at­ive particle accel­er­at­or developed through a col­lab­or­a­tion between Normandy’s sci­entif­ic teams and industry partners.

Normandy: A Land of Knowledge and Innovation

By host­ing this glob­al con­gress, the CID and the city of Deau­ville fur­ther strengthen their pos­i­tion as a premi­er des­tin­a­tion for major know­ledge-shar­ing events. We are proud to have con­trib­uted to the inter­na­tion­al vis­ib­il­ity of a dis­cip­line that con­tin­ues to push the bound­ar­ies of thera­peut­ic pre­ci­sion and improve patient out­comes worldwide.

To relive the high­lights of the con­gress or access sci­entif­ic resources, vis­it the offi­cial PTCOG 64 website.