Bruce Minksy, MD's, Expert Perspective: Radiotherapy in 2015
2015 ASTRO Annual MeetingASTRO President Bruce Minsky, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, talks about the goals and highlights of this year’s ASTRO Annual Meeting.
ASTRO President Bruce Minsky, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, talks about the goals and highlights of this year’s ASTRO Annual Meeting.
Anthony Zietman, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the practice-changing results from a study comparing fractionation schedules in patients with low-risk prostate cancer (Abstract LBA6).
James B. Yu, MD, of Yale School of Medicine, summarizes the plenary lecture on results from the NRG Oncology/phase III study comparing two fractionation schedules for low-risk prostate cancer (Abstract LBA6).
Joel E. Tepper, MD, of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, discusses the ways in which SBRT has changed radiotherapy, as demonstrated in key studies presented at this year's meeting on stereotactic body radiotherapy for liver metastases and hepatocellular carcinoma, and borderline resectable and unresectable pancreatic tumors (Abstracts 253, 255, 351, 357).
Jay Harris, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses the difficulty reconciling recent important trials on radiotherapy for breast cancer: The Z11 trial suggested that breast tangents are sufficient, while MA.20 and EORTC studies suggested that full nodal irradiation is beneficial.
Howard M. Sandler, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses this phase III noninferiority study comparing two fractionation schedules in patients with low-risk prostate cancer (Abstract LBA6).