Stay current with the latest studies in radiation oncology with free podcasts from the official journals of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)....
ASTRO clinical practice guideline of Radiation Therapy for HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
In this PRO podcast, Bisham Chera MD, FASTRO, Danielle Margalit, MD, MPH, and David Sher, MD, discuss the recently published ASTRO clinical practice guideline of Radiation Therapy for HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. This manuscript was published in print in the September/October 2024 issue and was the 3rd most downloaded PRO article in 2024. Listen for their lively and meaningful discussion of the key recommendations and controversies.
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Red Journal Podcast March 15, 2025: Mentoring in Radiation Oncology
Dr. Sue Yom, Editor in Chief, hosts Dr. Kristin Hsieh, radiation oncology resident at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and member of the SWRO mentorship committee; Dr. Crystal Seldon Taswell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Miami and past Chair of SWRO; Dr. Jennifer Croke, radiation oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Center and Associate Professor and Director of Fellowship at the University of Toronto; and Dr. Reshma Jagsi, the Lawrence W. Davis Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at at Emory University. All were co-authors on this month's featured publication, A 5-Year, Multi-Institutional Mentorship Program in Radiation Oncology: The Society for Women in Radiation Oncology Experience.
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Red Journal Podcast March 1, 2025: BRCAness: A Lever for Chemoradiation Enhancement
Our Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom co-hosts with Dr. Henning Willers, our journal's Biology Section Editor and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Guests are Dr. Simon Powell, Chair of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology, who joins us as the co-last author of a new publication, Increased synthetic cytotoxicity of combinatorial chemoradiotherapy in homologous recombination deficient tumors, and Dr. Kerstin Borkmann, Professor of Radiobiology at the University Clinic Hamburg Eppendorf and Biology Associate Editor for our journal. She is the co-author of the accompanying editorial, BRCAness identifies synthetic cytotoxicity between cisplatin and RT.
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The Micro-Story in Narrative Writing
Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD explains a relatively new form of narrative writing called the Micro-Story, which is a subset of the writing genre called Flash Fiction. The presentation is based on two papers published in the January/February 2025 issue of PRO (2025, Issue 1, January/February). One paper is the first Micro-Story ever published in PRO with title: "The Black Car (Children Playing)." The second paper is an accompanying Editorial titled "Flash and FLASH: In Short, an Imaginary Bridge."
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Red Journal Podcast February 1, 2025: PSMA and SBRT – Innovations in Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment
Dr. Sue Yom, Editor in Chief, hosts guests Dr. Cristian Udovicich, a Fellow in Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto's Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, and Dr. Angela Jia, Assistant Professor and Assistant Residency Program Director at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, who were the first and second authors of "Evolving Paradigms in Prostate Cancer: The Integral Role of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Primary Staging and Therapeutic Decision-Making." In addition, we review long-term SBRT results with Dr. Andrew Loblaw, Full Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at Sunnybrook Health Science Center at the University of Toronto and supervising author of "Stereotactic Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: 10-Year Outcomes From Three Prospective Trials," and Dr. Constantinos Zamboglou, Deputy Medical Director at the German Oncology Center in Limassol, Cyprus and first author of an accompanying editorial, "Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer is Getting Mature: 10-Year Outcomes From Three Prospective Trials."
Stay current with the latest studies in radiation oncology with free podcasts from the official journals of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). The International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics (the Red Journal) publishes the latest clinical research related to radiation oncology, radiation biology, medical physics, education, and health policy. The overarching mission of Practical Radiation Oncology is to improve the quality of radiation oncology practice through publication of official ASTRO guidelines and white papers, discussion and illustration of new techniques, evaluation of current practices, and publication of case reports. Advances in Radiation Oncology is a wide-ranging clinical research journal whose articles are free and open for all to read. Visit www.redjournal.org, www.practicalradonc.org, and www.advancesradonc.org to learn more about ASTRO's journals.