Matthew Katz, Author at Radiation Nation

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...

Regional Nodal Irradiation in Clinically Node-Negative Breast Cancer: It’s Complicated

October 21, 2016 Matthew Katz

Two large clinical trials, NCIC MA-20 and EORTC 22922,1,2 raised a lot of interest in when radiation helps for treating lymph nodes in breast cancer. I heard from a lot of...

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...

Patterns of Failure after Radical Cystectomy: A Role for Radiation in Bladder Cancer?

August 14, 2016 Matthew Katz

For our August #radonc journal club we will discuss bladder cancer patterns of failure after radical cystectomy. Chemotherapy is often offered for more advanced disease. Is there any role for radiation...

Chemotherapy with Radiation for Low Grade Glioma

June 14, 2016 Matthew Katz

For our June #radonc journal club we will discuss the role of chemotherapy in low grade glioma, a specific type of brain tumor. Temozolomide became standard with radiation for glioblastoma in the...

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...

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy or Radiofrequency Ablation for Liver Cancer

April 16, 2016 Matthew Katz

For our April #radonc journal club we will discuss nonsurgical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common liver cancer. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an increasingly used approach to liver cancer,...

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