Roy Decker, MD, PhD, on Chemoradiation in Elderly Patients With Limited-Stage SCLC
2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting
Roy Decker, MD, PhD, of Yale University School of Medicine, discusses a National Cancer Database analysis that showed elderly patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer can benefit from adding concurrent radiation to chemotherapy (Abstract 1010).
Leonard Gunderson, MD
Leonard Gunderson, MD, of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, discusses PET/CT imaging in upper and lower gastrointestinal cancers, which can be of value as a baseline study prior to treatment, in determining the degree of response to treatment, and in helping decide whether there is a relapse after a complete response to treatment.
Bruce Minsky, MD
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
Anthony Zietman, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses his perspective on the study of bicalutamide during and after radiotherapy in patients following radical prostatectomy and a biochemical relapse (Abstract LBA5).
Anthony Zietman, MD
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).
Vratislav Strnad, MD, PhD
Vratislav Strnad, MD, PhD, of the University Hospital in Erlangen, discusses results from a European study comparing accelerated partial-breast irradiation using brachytherapy, to the standard treatment of whole-breast irradiation for women with low-risk breast cancer (Abstract LBA7).