Matthew Katz, Author at Radiation Nation

What Do You Know? 6 Interactive Radiation Learning Resources

April 5, 2014 Matthew Katz

The amount of health information online continues to grow rapidly. The issue is: how much of it is reliable? Where can you get good information about radiation medicine? Many people,...

Deodorant During Breast Radiation: Don’t Sweat It

April 1, 2014 Matthew Katz

Radiation treatment has the potential to cause brisk skin reactions through inflammation. For breast cancer, underarm deodorant has been a theoretical concern for a worsened reaction. I learned this bit...

Oncolore: Separating Evidence from Medical Myth

March 27, 2014 Matthew Katz

Increasingly, cancer care is becoming more evidence based and personalized. But there are still a lot of areas where we need to question the conventional wisdom. How much of what...

Where Are the 99.96%? A Call to Action Through Communication

October 18, 2013 Matthew Katz

One major challenge to improving cancer care is the seemingly glacial pace to implement new research findings. But how can you do that better when it’s not well shared? According...

Five Reasons I Love ASTRO

October 18, 2013 Matthew Katz

It’s not easy doing the right thing. But when ASTRO released its contribution to the Choosing Wisely campaign, I was proud that my professional organization declared itself in favor of...

Why Radiation Nation?

October 11, 2013 Matthew Katz

Since I completed residency ten years ago, I’ve learned a tremendous amount in clinical practice. But it’s humbling to see how much there still is to improve in cancer care....

Proton Therapy: Equal Pay for Equal Gray

October 11, 2013 Matthew Katz

Cancer care increasingly needs to demonstrate the value of new technology. While I believe that proton therapy has promise, currently I do not think it makes the cut to support...

Immunization Before Radiation to Avoid Complications

October 11, 2013 Matthew Katz

This is a reposted article originally published on KevinMD. Radiation oncologists offer curative cancer treatment to many. Despite irradiating the spleen for over 50 years, why don’t we routinely offer...

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