🤝Collaboration with industry partners is essential to address #Healthcare #Sustainability & #Climate change's impact on health.

Appreciate the opportunity to participate in Siemens Healthineers #Shape24Spotlight to safeguard the #health of our planet 🌎

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A drug that costs 30 grand a month that improves PFS in cancer by a few months is celebrated!

Take most solid metastatic solid cancers and radiate a few large masses. That would also prolong PFS for much cheaper yet I suspect this would be riducled.
Jeff Ryckman

🇺🇸 Wishing a safe and uneventful military deployment for our friend and colleague, Evan Thomas MD/PhD, who will spend the next few weeks in Iraq. #radonc

I finally read CROSSFIRE (IRE vs. MRI-guided SBRT after chemo in locally advanced pancreas cancer) in detail.

There are a few issues. Brief thread.

thelancet.com/journals/langa…

James Shen, who is training to be a radiology oncologist, felt stunned when he was diagnosed with a widespread, rare cancer. today.com/health/disease…

RCT QOL study - HDR vs LDR prostate boost
Faster GU recovery w HDR, LDR w GI issues for longer
Both w reasonable toxicities and much less than seen in ASCENDE...technique matters!
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Freddy E Escorcia (@freddyeescorcia elsewhere)
With re to your #radonc history query...I guess now is as good a time as any to turn this aging powerpoint into a twitter thread... (1/n)

👋🏻👋🏻 hey would love to work with you ! We are hiring for a thoracic rad onc and med onc position UT Health San Antonio ! Please feel free to DM me to inquire within!

Today, the American Urological Association (AUA), in partnership with the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO), released the 2024 clinical practice guideline on salvage therapy for prostate cancer.

➡️ bit.ly/49zBHk1

You down with ECC

Yeah you know me

✅ ASCO Climate Change Policy Statement
✅ ASTRO Climate Change Policy Statement (June 2023)

👏Climate Equity = Health Equity👏

We will be hosting quarterly open meetings this year! Come join us, we’d love to meet you!

Y'all know about the ASTRO early career committee?!

TAP hosts Austin Sim, MD JD, Anna Paulsson, MD, Avinash Chaurasia to discuss how this nascent committee is on a mission to improve #RadOnc .

Don't miss their resource page (members only) and suggestion box on the ASTRO website!

Out now in IJROBP - The Red Journal, my piece with Robert Timmerman describing a new way to approach radiation toxicity that we term as CUT: calculated useful trauma.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Pretty cool! Eating some bacteria reduced the risk of a very unpleasant radiation induced toxicity (mucositis).

Streptococcus salivarius K12 Alleviates Oral Mucositis in Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy for Malignant Head and Neck Tumors: ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

Calling all #radonc residents, especially PGY-5s!

Want oral boards practice but can't find your own group?

We are forming #oralboards study groups to take the stress out of you finding one yourself!
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In the latest TAP, we are joined by the new chief of #RadOnc in American Board of Radiology!

Michael Yunes joins the show to discuss all things boards: virtual orals, design and angoff'ing of writtens, and comms/crisis management.

Also, lobster rolls. Sweet, sweet lobster rolls. 🤤

Interested in getting involved in #radonc education development on a national level?

Help our Edu exec & ROECSG (Rad Onc Education Collab Study Group) define #radonc Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs), develop a curriculum workbook and make an impact!

Interested? Message Mustafa Basree, DO MS | مصطفى بصري or Kelsey Corrigan MD MPH

Rad Onc PDs: offer your residents early access to a free self-paced course on vaginal cuff brachytherapy, created by Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard teaching hospital) experts, before official global launch. No registration needed. Details: [email protected].

Great work by our residents, Dr. Kristin Hsieh and Julie Bloom on this project examining U.S. academic radiation oncology chairs. 8 residency programs trained more than half of current chairs! Brianna M. Jones, MD anthony Karyn Goodman, MD, MS Jared Peralta Rowley, MD

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