ASTRO Journals

Practical Radiation Oncology associate section editor Ashley Weiner, MD, PhD, of University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill hosts a conversation on the ASTRO Radiation Therapy Summary of the ASCO Guideline on Management of Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer . Two of the authors, Charles Simone MD, of the New York Proton Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and George Rodrigues, MD,...

Genitourinary Section Editor Alison Tree, Consultant Clinical Oncologist at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, hosts a discussion this month on genomic classifiers in prostate cancer. Guests are Paul Nguyen, Vice-Chair for Clinical Research and Genitourinary Disease Center Leader at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital's Department of Radiation Oncology and first author of "Analysis of a Biopsy-B...

Deputy Editor Dr. Curtiland Deville, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Johns Hopkins University and ASTRO HEDI Council Vice Chair, conducts a discussion this month on diversity and inclusion in professional selection and development. Guests include Dr. Rachel Jimenez, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, President of the Association for Directors of Radia...

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, discusses structured formats for delivering bad news to patients. The discussion begins with an explanation of the SPIKES protocol and a recent analysis identifying five behavior practices that enhance physician communication in clinical encounters. The discussion ends with review of a paper published in the May 2023 issue of PRO titled " Serious Illness Communic...

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom hosts a discussion this month on geospatial health disparity analysis and Spanish language equity. Guests include Associate Section Editor Dr. Sara Alcorn, Vice Chair of Clinical Strategy in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Minnesota and the supervising author of Radiotherapy Deserts: Impact of Race, Poverty and the Rural-Urban Continuum on Dens...

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, discusses an Editorial published in the March 2023 issue of PRO titled " Nailing the Clavicular Head: Assuring Adequate Coverage of the Medial/Inferior Aspect of the Supraclavicular Space in Patients Receiving Regional Nodal Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer " (2023, Issue 2, March/April, PMID: 36748209). This paper compares dose coverage of the nodes behind th...

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom hosts a discussion this month on the status of radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) in radiation oncology. Guests include Dr. Jeff Michalski, President of ASTRO and Carlos Perez Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis, and supervising author of an editorial we are publishing this month, "Radiation...

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, discusses two Morbidity and Mortality Conference papers from the March issue of PRO: " Regional Recurrence after Carotid Sparing IMRT for Early Stage Glottic Cancer " (2023 Issue 2, PMID 36089251) and " Pneumothorax Associated with Deep Inspiration Breath Holding During Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer " (2023 Issue 2, PMID 36494031). Both these papers describ...

Dr. Sue Yom, our Editor-in-Chief, hosts Dr. Meredith Giuliani, Thoracic Section Editor, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, and Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Toronto, practicing at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center; Dr. Sung-Ja Ahn, Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology of Chonnam National University Medical School and corresponding auth...

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, discusses radiation and chemotherapy programs to use prior to surgical resection of rectal cancer. The main reference for the podcast is a Topic Discussion paper published in the January 2023 issue of PRO titled " Neoadjuvant therapy in the post-German rectal trial era: making sense in the absence of consensus " (2023, Issue 1, January/February). The discussion e...

Practical Radiation Oncology associate section editor Jeffrey Brower, MD, PhD, hosts a conversation on the ASTRO clinical practice guideline for radiation therapy in Endometrial Cancer . Two of the guideline authors, Matthew Harkenrider, MD, and Paola Gehrig, MD, discuss the development of the updated guidelines and review specific questions related to the management of patients with endometrial c...

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom discusses electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) with Dr. Kaitlyn Lapen, a radiation oncology resident at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who was first author of an article describing ePRO implementation in a November 2021 article, "Development and Pilot Implementation of a Remote Monitoring System for Acute Toxicity Using Electronic Patient-Reported Outcom...

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, discusses primary radiotherapy for early-stage Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of Early Stage and Indolent Histology. The discussion begins with an explanation of lymphoma classification and then reviews two papers published in PRO: " Prognostic Effect of Systemic Therapy and Radiation Therapy in Stage I Nodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma " (2023, Issue 1, January/February) and...

Dr. Sue Yom, Editor in Chief, hosts Dr. Horatio "Tio" Thomas, who is completing radiation oncology residency at UCSF and is first author of an article describing an ACGME-led reform process in our January issue, "Milestones 2.0: Refining the Competency-Based Assessment of Radiation Oncology Medical Residents"; Dr. Neha Vapiwala, Professor and Vice Chair of Education in Radiation Oncology and Dean...

The James Cancer Hospital and Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center FLASH research team review ultra-high dose rate radiation delivery and measurement and share insight from developing a FLASH research program. Advances in Radiation Oncology associate section editor, Ashley Cetnar, PhD, leads a discussion with Arnab Chakravarti, MD, Nilendu Gupta, PhD, Ahmet Ayan, PhD, and Jessica Fleming PhD.

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, discussed two papers that were selected for review in the PROshot literature curation article published in the November/December 2022 issue of PRO. The title of the PROshot article is " PROshot: Borderline Resectable Pancreas SBRT, Surrogate Endpoints, Axillary Dissection, Genomic Classifiers, and Spine SBRT. " The two articles discussed in this podcast are: "Eff...

Dr. Sue Yom, Editor in Chief, hosts Dr. Scott Soltys, Professor of Radiation Oncology from Stanford University and outgoing Section CNS Section Editor, along with Dr. Daniel Trifiletti, Associate Professor at Mayo Clinic Florida and CNS Associate Section Editor who first-authored this month’s OncoScan, entitled "Novel Applications of Stereotactic Radiosurgery Beyond Oncology: Prospective Trials in...

Practical Radiation Oncology section editor, Minsun Kim, Ph. D. of University of Washington, hosts a conversation on automated treatment planning to improve plan quality beyond human intuition. A senior author on the paper published in PRO: "Clinical acceptability of automated radiation treatment planning for head and neck cancer using the radiation planning assistant" , Beth Beedle, MD, of Stanfo...

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom hosts Dr. Shankar Siva, Associate Professor and Radiation Oncologist from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia and the supervising author of "Cost-Effectiveness of Single- versus Multi-Fraction SABR for Pulmonary Oligometastases - The SAFRON II Trial"; Dr. David Sher, Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Red Journal's Methodol...

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, reviews a paper published in the November/December 2022 issue of PRO that presents the latest guidelines on CTV definition with postoperative radiotherapy for bladder cancer: "International Consensus Guidelines for Adjuvant Radiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer After Radical Cystectomy: Update From an IBIS Workgroup."

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, explains the 2021 World Health Organization Classification of Adult Brain Gliomas and then comments on the guideline paper published in the September/October 2022 issue of PRO: "Radiation Therapy for IDH-Mutant Grade 2 and Grade 3 Diffuse Glioma: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline."

Deputy Editor Dr. Salma Jabbour, Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Faculty Development and Clinical Chief in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, hosts Dr. Matthias Guckenberger, Chairman and Professor of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich, discussing a new article from his European team,...

Dr. Jeffrey Olsen, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Colorado and section editor of our gastrointestinal section, co-leads a discussion along with our Editor-in-Chief Editor-in-Chief Dr. Sue Yom hosts Dr. Sara Alcorn, Associate Editor and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Minnesota, who first-authored this month’s Oncology Scan, Toxicity an...

Editor-in-Chief, Robert Amdur, MD, reviews a Topic Discussion paper from the September/October issue of PRO, " Variation in Routine Use of a 60-63 Gy Intermediate Dose CTV with Primary Radiotherapy for Mucosal Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck. " This paper summarizes major published guidelines on the use of an intermediate risk target volume and the current practice of four clinicians...

Practical Radiation Oncology associate section editor Debra Nana Yeboa, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center, hosts a conversation on ASTRO clinical practice guideline on radiation therapy for IDH-Mutant Grade 2 and Grade 3 Diffuse Glioma. Two of the guideline authors, Lia M. Halasz, MD, of University of Washington and Helen A. Shih, MD, MS, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital discuss the developme...