The 2020 Best of ASTRO meeting provided a review of the most relevant, highly-rated abstracts from the 2020 Annual Meeting that highlight recent technological advances and illustrate the importance of the clinical and non-clinical skills needed to provide patients with the full benefit of radiati

Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy for early stage lung cancer has yielded outstanding outcomes comparable to radical resection.  The approach requires special technologic requirements and contouring expertise to be safely performed.   For locally advanced lung cancers, standard fractionatio

Radiation is an integral component of the treatment of small cell lung cancer, as a definitive treatment for limited stage disease, as prophylactic cranial irradiation for prevention of brain metastases, as consolidation to the chest in extensive stage disease, and for palliation.

The course consists of two debates. The first debate consists of two thoracic oncologists with one arguing for the use of surgery and one against the use of surgery for patients with stage III NSCLC.