Two Onc Docs

This week’s episode will be focusing on Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). We will go over quick facts on the diagnosis, prognostic factors, and treatment options for both B-cell & T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias. 

This week’s episode will be focusing on gastrointestinal stromal tumors, known as GIST. We will go over all the important details on the diagnosis, mutations, and treatment of local and metastatic GISTs for health care providers.

Since this is something we are often asked, in this week’s episode will be discussing our favorite heme/onc board review resources for those in hematology/oncology fellowship. 

Happy 2023! In this week’s episode we kick off Season 2 with a re-introduction and an explanation of why we picked hematology/oncology as a speciality (& why we both love what we do).

Today’s episode will be focusing on primary brain tumors within neuro-oncology. We will primarily be discussing the classification of gliomas and management, including oligodendrogliomas, ependymomas, astrocytomas, and glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

This week’s episode will be focusing on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia  (CLL) for health care providers. We will go over all the important details on presentation, diagnosis, prognostic factors, and treatment options.

This week’s episode will be focusing on neuroendocrine tumors (NET), their characteristics, diagnosis, associated syndromes, and focus mostly on gastro-enteropancreatic NETs.

This week’s episode will be focusing on a bleeding disorder, Von Willebrand disease (VWD). We will go over all the important details on the diagnosis, types of VWD (& ways to remember them!) as well as treatment options.

This week’s episode will be focusing on details of the hematology & oncology board exams, how we prepared the days leading up to our exam, and we cover some highly tested topics in both hematology & oncology. We wish the best of luck to everyone taking their boards this year!

This week’s episode will be focusing on Cervical Cancer facts for health care providers. We will go over important details on prevention, risk factors, diagnosis & NCCN category 1 treatments.

This week’s episode will be focusing on porphyrias, we will go over quick facts on the need to know facts regarding  acute & chronic porphyrias from presentation to  treatment.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Chronic Myeloid Leukemia or CML for health care providers. We will go over all the important details on the genetics of CML, diagnosis and treatment algorithms.

October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month & this week’s episode is the last of 3 episodes covering breast cancer facts for health care providers. We will go over the NCCN guidelines for systemic therapy related to metastatic breast cancer, as well as common side effects of these therapies.

October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month & this week’s episode is part 2 of 3 covering breast cancer facts for health care providers. This will summarize treatment options for localized breast cancer. We will go over important details on indications for radiation, as well as systemic therapies based on the ER/PR/her-2 receptor status.

October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month & this week’s episode is the first of 3 episodes covering breast cancer facts for health care providers. Today’s episode will include a quick overview on  breast cancer screening, prevention & hormone therapy (as well as side effects), ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), as well as introduce invasive localized disea...

This week’s episode will be focusing on Immune Thrombocytopenia Purpura ( ITP).   We will go all the important details on causes, mechanism, diagnosis and treatment.

This week’s episode will be focusing on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). We will go over the important category 1 NCCN & ASH recommendations for this aggressive lymphoma.

This week’s episode will be focusing on metastatic NSCLC. We will go all the important details on the quickly growing and changing systemic therapy options including traditional chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted agents.

This week’s episode will be focusing on early stage and locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We will go all the important details on staging, pathology, local and systemic therapy. 

September will mark Uterine Cancer Awareness Month. We will go over important details on the risk factors, presentation, diagnosis, staging & treatment options for the most common types of Endometrial (Uterine) Cancer. We will also cover less common subtypes of uterine malignancies at the end of the episode.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Hemophilias. We will go over all high yield facts regarding both hemophilia A and B  for your boards and end with a little bit about acquired hemophilias. 

This week’s episode will be focusing on Ovarian Cancer. We will go over all the important details on the risk factors, presentation, diagnosis, staging & treatment options for the common epithelial subtypes, with a quick overview of rarer ovarian tumors.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL), both classical and nodular lymphocyte-predominant. We will go into all the important details on the pathology, staging, Deauville scoring, and treatment for early stage/advanced stage as well as relapsed and refractory HL.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Testicular Cancer. We will go all the important details on the staging, risk categories, and treatment options for both seminoma and non-seminoma, as well as early and late toxicities.

Today’s episode a continuation on fast facts for the IM Board review focusing on the oncology questions. Another 6% of the certifying ABIM test is oncology. While we can’t cover ALL of oncology in just 10 minutes, here are 10 high yield concepts/facts/vignettes you  should know walking into your IM Boards.