Attendees will be able to apply the level 1 evidence from prospective randomized clinical trials in determining the best practice approach for men with low, intermediate and high risk prostate cancer.

First, we hope to raise awareness of the current gaps in knowledge on effective communication strategies important to patient care within radiation oncology. No structured curriculum currently exists in radiation oncology to address this educational need.

Improving healthcare disparities in cancer care represents a significant challenge to the oncology community. This session will focus on the multiple factors contributing to these disparities and broader effect on local populations.

This session will cover patients with cancer who frequently require palliative radiation treatment as a component of their care.  Radiotherapy is an effective means of reducing patient distress related to painful bone metastases, neurological compromise from spinal cord compression and brain meta

Seismic changes are rattling the Medicare physician payment world, and radiation oncologists must immediately adapt or face serious payment penalties under the new Quality Payment Program (QPP).

In this session, attendees will review the basics of radiotherapy for sarcoma as well as the selective use of IMRT and IGRT to improve tumor coverage and reduce acute and late complications. 

Indications for radiotherapy and treatment techniques used for several types of head and neck cancer (oropharyngeal, nasopharyngeal, hypopharyngeal, laryngeal, oral cavity, thyroid) will be discussed.

This course will explore management of patients with advanced cancer in the context of a team-based approach to care.  While palliative radiotherapy may at times be less technically complex than other forms of radiotherapy treatments, the accompanying discussions with patients and families is hig

This course will cover the management of gynecologic malignancies, concentrating on cervical (25 minutes), uterine (25 minutes), and vulvar cancers (15 minutes), with time for questions from the audience (15 minutes).  Participants will review the seminal trials and manuscripts which guide curren

In this course, the role of radiation therapy in the management of patients with extranodal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the following sites: CNS, orbit and skin, will be reviewed.