Radiation Oncology Archives - Radiation Nation

Developing Contouring Guidelines: Methodologies and Temporal Trends

July 16, 2020 Hina Saeed

For our July #radonc #jc we will be discussing one of the very practical aspects of radiation therapy – contouring guidelines. Patient outcomes are dependent on radiation therapy plan of...

COVID and Radiotherapy

March 14, 2020 Richard Simcock

This month for Journal Club we have made a change to our original plans and decided to have an urgent forum on the very pressing and global problem of COVID-19....

Oncology Leadership and Industry Funding: How Often, and How Much?

October 14, 2017 Matthew Katz

For our October #radonc journal club we will discuss industry funding in U.S. radiation oncology and medical oncology leaders. Academic centers and departmental chairs often set the course for medical research and...

Anal Cancer Treatment Toxicity – Where Do We Stand?

March 14, 2017 Matthew Katz

Although only semiofficial, it’s anal cancer awareness day this Tuesday. We will be discussing a review article on chemoradiation for anal cancer this month for #radonc journal club: Evolution and...

Radiation’s Role for Breast Cancer Nodes: Assessing Risk

October 22, 2016 Matthew Katz

Radiation has an essential role in breast cancer, complementing surgery to prevent recurrences and improve survival. To determine when radiation helps treat lymph nodes in breast cancer, we need to...

Hypofractionated Prostate Radiation: A CHHiP Shot?

October 8, 2016 Matthew Katz

For our October #radonc journal club we will discuss hypofractionated prostate radiation with daily doses > 2 Gray. What are the data, and how easy is it to change from conventional...

Guidelines for #radonc Journal Club

June 11, 2016 Matthew Katz

We had to change #radonc journal club’s original format of three days of general conversation with a live hour chat. It was just too long to do monthly, so we...

4 Ways the Cancer Moonshot Clinical Trials Group is Skewed

May 27, 2016 Matthew Katz

When I visited Washington D.C. earlier this week, the buzz among my colleagues was about how the Cancer Moonshot project didn’t include any radiation oncologists. Now the NCI has announced its...

Community Building in Radiation Oncology: What Do We Need?

May 27, 2016 Matthew Katz

We didn’t have our monthly #radonc journal club as planned this month. So it seemed like a good opportunity for feedback. What can we do better to bring the...

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