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Comprehensive Review of Radiation Oncology consists of 30 one-hour lectures spanning a wide range of radiation therapy treatments that require a complex set of processes: diagnosis, consultation, simulation, contouring target volumes and normal tissue structures, treatment planning, chart review, treatment delivery, quality assurance, and patient follow-up. Authoritative and clinically experienced faculty guide you to more efficient, safer, and higher quality care for each patient. This online CME program will help you to better:

• Describe delivery speed and dose rates of FLASH radiation therapy
• List head and neck tumors for which radiotherapy is beneficial
• Compare radiotherapy for brain metastases and primary brain tumors
• Summarize differences in therapy for non-small versus small cell lung cancer
• Discuss therapy for upper and lower GI malignancies
• Contrast decision making involved in therapy after mastectomy and after breast conservation

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to:

• Describe the delivery speed and dose rates of FLASH radiation therapy
• List the head and neck tumors for which radiotherapy is beneficial
• Compare radiotherapy for brain metastases with radiotherapy for primary brain tumors
• Summarize the differences in radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer
• Discuss radiation therapy for upper and lower gastrointestinal malignancies
• Contrast the decision making involved in radiation therapy after mastectomy and after breast conservation
• Explain effective treatment delivery for gynecological tumors
• Differentiate the treatment planning required for Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Compare the doses and beams of various intensities used in stereotactic body radiation therapy used for primary and metastatic gastrointestinal tumors and spinal tumors

Date of Original Release: December 31, 2020
Date Credits Expire: December 31, 2023
Estimated time to complete: 29.5 hours

Topics/Speakers : 

• Proton Radiation Therapy in Adults – Thomas F. Delaney, MD

• Imaging Applications in Radiation Therapy – Fang-Fang Yin, PhD

• Non-Invasive Cardiac Radioablation for Ventricular Tachycardia – Clifford Robinson, MD

• FLASH & PHASER: Potential New Radiotherapy Paradigm and Its Clinical Translation – Billy W. Loo, MD, PhD

• Treatment of Oligometastases in 2020 – Joseph K. Salama, MD, FASTRO

• Immunotherapy and Radiation Therapy – Yvonne M. Mowery, MD, PhD

• Practical Radiotherapy Management for Brain Metastases – Scott R. Floyd, MD, PhD

• Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Adult Primary Brain Tumors – Zachary J. Reitman, MD, PhD

• The Role of PET Scanning in Head and Neck Cancer – David M. Brizel, MD

• Head and Neck Tumors: HPV, Postop, Planning, Progression, Palliation – Yvonne M. Mowery, MD, PhD

• Thoracic Tumors: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer – Joseph K. Salama, MD, FASTRO

• Small Cell Lung Cancer & Pleural Mesothelioma 2020 – Chris Kelsey, MD

• Upper Gastrointestinal Malignancies – Christopher G. Willett, MD

• Clinical Indications: Radiation/SBRT for Liver Metastases and Hepatocellular Carcinoma – Brian Czito, MD

• Lower Gastrointestinal Cancers: Colon, Rectum, Anus – Manisha Palta, MD

• Definitive Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Risk Stratification, Fractionation and Androgen Suppression – W. Robert Lee, MD, MS, MEd, FASTRO, FABS

• Multi-Disciplinary Care in Bladder Cancer: An Evidence-Based Review on the Role of Radiation Therapy – Stanley Liauw, MD

• Post-Prostatectomy Radiation Therapy: Advances and Controversies – Daniel E. Spratt, MD

• Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer: Decision Making After Mastectomy and Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy – Rachel C. Blitzblau, MD, PhD

• Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer: Decision Making After Breast Conservation – Susan G. R. McDuff, MD, PhD

• Soft Tissue Sarcomas – David Kirsch, MD, PhD

• Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas – Colin E. Champ, MD

• Hodgkin Lymphoma 2020 – Chris Kelsey, MD

• Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer – Akila N. Viswanathan, MD, MPH

• Gynecological Tumors: Uterine Cancer – Junzo Chino, MD

• Gynecological Tumors: Vaginal and Vulvar Cancer – Diandra N. Ayala-Peacock, MD

• Pediatric Tumors I – Nicole Larrier, MD, MSc

• Pediatric Tumors II – Nicole Larrier, MD, MSc

• Skin Cancer – Paul M. Busse, MD, PhD

• Management of Spinal Metastases – John P. Kirkpatrick, MD, PhD