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Catherine C. Park, MD, on Novel Clinical Paradigms

2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Catherine C. Park, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco, summarizes results from three clinical trials of radiation therapy for various cancers: metastatic melanoma, oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, and breast cancer (Abstracts 215, 3, and LBA7).



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