Controversy exists as to the need for surgical staging in all patients. The proper application of adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy also is a source of considerable debate. This educational session will review these controversies with special attention to the impact on patient care.

This session will review and update the current standard of care for pediatric sarcomas including rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and other soft tissue sarcomas. Recent and current COG trials will be highlighted.

The specific scenarios will include men with newly diagnosed localized, locally advanced, post-operative pT3,4 and/or margin + disease in the setting of an undetectable PSA in addition to post-operative or post-radiation PSA recurrence.

Experience, knowledge, and guidelines about intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) have been accumulated over the past decade, but they have largely not been formally modeled to support more efficient and optimal treatment planning and even automa

Soft tissue sarcomas present in a wide variety of locations and span a wide variety of locations. This makes the management of these tumors challenging.  However, there are a number of well-known principles that can be considered in the planning of treatment of these tumors.

This session will provide a practical overview of Oncofertility. It will discuss thescope of the risks to fertility in our younger patient population.

In the recent years, there has been a sharp increase of interest in the use of SBRT for the treatment of various primary and metastatic tumors of various organ sites.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer that affects mankind. While most skin cancers present in an early stage and require relatively simple forms of treatment, some skin cancers are complex, locally advanced and high risk and require well-coordinated multidisciplinary management.

This course will cover: Fundamental principles of medical ethics (mindfulness, empathy, compassion, phronesis, competence, treating patients as ends in themselves rather than as means to other ends, etc), Organizational structure of medical ethics (AMA Council on Judicial and Ethical Affairs an

The medical approach and technical delivery of radiotherapy for cancers of the head and neck is multidisciplinary in nature, and technically complex.

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