ASTRO Practical Radiation Oncology Program 2023 (Videos)

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:

• Discuss various techniques for breast cancer patient set-up and motion management.
• Discuss hypofractionation and ultra-hypofractionation techniques.
• Identify the different treatment strategies for sarcoma based on clinical presentation.
• Implement different treatment techniques for sarcoma based on clinical scenario.
• Discuss treatment of larynx cancers for different stages of disease.
• Manage care of long-term survivors of larynx cancer.
• Contour planning volumes to the current standard of care in lung cancer management.
• Select appropriate dose/fractionation schedule for common palliative scenarios in lung cancer management.
• Know appropriate fractionation schemes for retreatment in the central nervous system, head and neck, and prostate.
• Understand the risk/benefit ration of retreatment in the central nervous system, head and neck, and prostate and be able to communicate this to patients.
• Assess their existing brachytherapy capabilities for treatment of gynecologic cancers and evaluate ways to enhance access and capabilities in a community setting.
• Select patients for appropriate treatment of recurrent or inoperable endometrial cancer and navigate anatomic or technical challenges to provide quality radiation care.
• Incorporate information to improve the management of primary and metastatic brain tumors.
• Return to their teams with techniques to improve their radiosurgery programs in the treatment of primary brain tumors.
• Comfortably differentiate patients with oligometastatic disease that may benefit from radiation therapy in the context of recent supportive studies.
• Assess their available resources and apply safe, effective radiation when indicated with greater comfort of dose, technique, timing, and prognostication principles specific to metastasis-directed radiation.
• Discuss the multidisciplinary management of esophagogastric, borderline resectable pancreatic and rectal cancer.
• Optimize radiation techniques and plans for esophagogastric, borderline resectable pancreatic and rectal cancer.
• Assess updated dose limits to critical structures to minimize long term morbidity.
• Determine what data and testing is available to tailor the use of androgen deprivation therapy in intermediate risk and post prostatectomy patients.
• Explain the combinations and sequencing of systemic therapies for high risk, node positive, and metastatic prostate cancer patients.

The program is comprised of ten sessions:

1.  Updates in Breast Cancer: Hypofractionation, Treatment Techniques, and Systemic Therapy

   • Hypofractionation for Breast Cancer—Nicolas Prionas, MD, PhD
   • Breast Radiation Techniques and Motion Management—Jolinta Lin, MD
   • Advances in Systemic Therapy for Breast Cancer—Cathie Chung, MD

2. The Who, What and How of Sarcoma

   • Overview of Sarcoma—Manpreet Bedi, MD, MS
   • Multidisciplinary Management of Sarcoma—Andrew Bishop, MD
   • Unresectable and Metastatic Disease—Anusha Kalbasi, MD
   • Radiation Technique and Case Presentation—Shauna Campbell, MD, DO

3. Treatment and Management of Larynx Cancer

   • Early Stage Larynx Cancer—David Sher, MD, MPH
   • Locally Advanced Larynx Cancer—Zain Husain, MD
   • Treatment Strategies in Post Operative and Recurrent Larynx Cancer—Gary Walker, MD, MS, MPH

4. Updates in Lung Cancer Management

   • Current Management of Stage III Non Small Cell Lung Cancer—Saumil Gandhi, MD, PhD
   • Non Definitive Lung Options: Palliation and XRT Alone—Uzoma Iheagwara, MD, PhD
   • Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment Volumes—Sara Zakem, MD, BS

5. Reirradiation for Prostate, CNS and Head and Neck Cancers

   • Reirradiation for Local Recurrence of Prostatic Carcinoma—Abhishek Solanki, MD, MS
   • Reirradiation in Primary and Metastatic CNS Malignancy—Susan McGovern, MD, PhD
   • Pro Retreatment: Head and Neck—James Caudell, MD, PhD

6. Inoperable/Recurrent Endometrial Cancer and Building a Brachytherapy Practice in a Community Setting

   • Inoperable Endometrial Cancer—J. Spencer Thompson, MD
   • Recurrent Endometrial Cancer—Emma Fields, MD
   • Implementing a Successful Brachytherapy Program in the Community—Malolan Rajagopalan, MD, MBA

7. Management of Primary Brain Tumors in the Molecular Era and Building and Refining a Radiosurgery Program

   • Management of Gliomas in the Molecular Era—Sara Hardy, MD, MS
   • Management of Large and Multiple Brain Metastases—Raju Raval, MD, DPhil
   • Starting and Refining a Radiosurgery Program—Roshan Prabhu, MD, MS

8. Oligometastatic Disease: Practical Aspects of Metastasis-Directed Therapy in a Community Practice

   • Data and Dose Selection: To Ablate or Not to Ablate?—Beant Gill, MD
   • Prognostication, Timing, and Patient Selection—David Palma, MD, PhD
   • Setting Up for Success—Melissa O’Neil, MRT(T)

9. Maximizing Patient Outcomes and Minimizing Morbidity in Gastrointestinal Cancer

   • Optimizing Multimodality Management of Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer—Edward Kim, MD
   • TNT, W&W, and Beyond: Applying the Explosion of Data to Rectal Cancer Practice—Krishan Jethwa, MD
   • Advances in Radiation for Pancreatic Cancer—Erqi Pollom, MD, MS

10. Personalization of Systemic Therapy for Localized to Metastatic Prostate Cancer

    • Personalizing ADT Use in the Definitive Treatment of Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer—Angela Jia, MD, PhD
    • Duration and Combination of Systemic Therapies for Patients with High Risk, Node Positive, and Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer—Anne Rajkumar, MD
    • Overview of Systemic Therapies in Metastatic Prostate Cancer—Rana Mckay, MD

This activity is available from December 15, 2023, through 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on December 14, 2024.

This activity was originally recorded at the 2023 ASTRO Annual Meeting.