Everything is all in the 'name of access'
This is very misleading and lead to unwise and unnecessary spending.
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--population density
--distribution based on payer mix
--medical debt
--value
--access v affordability
--performance of current centers
--cost

Laws prohibiting doctors from counseling our patients out-state by ☎️&📼 make little sense in an era of frequent travel, where distance disappears over internet and phone. Proud of Sean McBride & Caleb Trotter for leading this effort and grateful to Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ for their

Check out our new #Yonsei paper on 5fx ablative RT for primary breast tumors.🇰🇷🇨🇦 Excited for BC Cancer's upcoming SABR-PRIMeR trial led by Andrew Bang.📢More attention should be paid to these breast SABR (-ish) approaches in stage IV BC. ejbc.kr/DOIx.php?id=10…

Proud to fight against unconstitutional licensure restrictions on interstate telehealth that criminalize patients getting life saving advice from doctors. #medtwittwr #radonc AMA American Cancer Society CCHP Petrie-Flom Center American Telemed American Hospital Association

Confused over the new #radonc ROCR Law Text?

Here is a brief explainer:

Our friends at ASTRO have introduced the phrase 'small radiation therapy supplier'

Are you a small radonc supplier??? 'Small' is such an English-language-nebulous phrase

Just ask Ed Halperin...

(FWIW, I am 5'9')

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It's ROCR!

And we're off...

I started using probiotics for all HN patients, and I am extremely impressed with the results. Very consistent with the trial.

It's almost crazy to see the mitigation of mucositis over the course of treatment.

I have never been so grateful to bacteria.

Hope or hype: can upright treatment increase access to advanced radiotherapy? physicsworld.com/a/hope-or-hype…

Before we have the AI actually *doing* the plans

I fully predict I'll be 'asking' the AI 'How does this plan look' (and getting some pretty good insight I wouldn't have otherwise, occasionally)

If you'd have told me 10 years ago that, one day soon, someone with stage III colorectal cancer could take a single drug, with few side effects, and get cured

I'd have thought you were... optimistic

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In answering Mark's #radonc question, was randomly looking back at some of the editorials from ~quarter century(!) ago re: the PORT meta-analysis in The Lancet

Here's quite the doozy:

'[P]ostoperative radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) kills people'

🚨 #radonc trainees🚨

Joining ACROresident is a great way to get involved in radiation oncology at a national level and make life long friends along the way

Being part of this committee has been a highlight of my residency experience

New #radonc thing:

Radiation helps organs hold sutures better (!)

(The less we question this the better, take the win, etc)

Tune into Oncology Brothers below for IR vs. rad onc in HCC -the boxing gloves were out!

Just kidding. We didn't get into studies in detail given time constraints, but I generally consider this framework for liver-confined HCC:

-Small tumor (<~3 cm), favorable location – several

Immensely grateful for having received the #ESTRO24 award on behalf of the STORM team honoring the legacy of Prof. Donal Hollywood. Please find the main findings below. Supported by Kom op tegen Kanker (vzw) and Movember USA

Reduced dose to elective node in modern imaging era shows no difference in recurrence but less tube feeding and xerostomia #estro24 . PI concludes should be SOC ⁦Dr. Loren K. Mell⁩

More H+N action at ESTRO #ESTRO24 - reduced elective nodal dose (43 Gy @ 1.26 Gy/fx vs 50 Gy @ 1.47 Gy/fx) is safe with equivalent risk of recurrence in elective nodes

May you live in VERY VERY interesting times

May you live in VERY interesting times