by Ian Pereira, Sara Beltran Ponce, Amy Le, & Niema Razavian This quarter, the #RadOnc #JC will discuss health equity, guided by a recently...
Looking Ahead – Addressing Health Disparities through Collaborative Action
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Two large clinical trials, NCIC MA-20 and EORTC 22922,1,2Â raised a lot of interest in when radiation helps for treating lymph nodes in breast cancer...
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...
Ordering CT, MRI, or PET scans for my patients when they feel well always makes me nervous. As a radiation oncologist, I’ve chosen to frequently make...
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ― Isaac Asimov Some...
Is there life after cancer? The answer is definitely yes. Cancer means something before and after for the life of many patients. It makes a...
Michele Peyrone (1813-1883) was an Italian doctor who turned his back on medicine to study Chemistry. After study in Turin and Paris he moved to a...
Cancer patients often get lost in the complicated process of seeing medical specialists and treatments that they barely understand. Treatments with...
There are no clinical trials comparing Gamma Knife vs. LINAC-based radiosurgery (SRS). In RTOG 9508, patients who were randomized to the SRS boost...
For a few years now, I have wanted Radiation Nation to grow. It’s been wonderfully engaging online, but I’ve been looking for people with...
In the last post, we shared a multilingual, global resource for patient education. This page may help radiation oncologists guide patients to useful...