New York Times Addresses Quality of Radiation Treatment
The New York Times has published recently several articles on radiation therapy.
Responses from major professional societies: ASTRO;
ASRT; AAPM; and SROA.
Click here for additional talking points regarding the safety of radiation therapy.
2009 SROA Annual Meeting Presentations
Those presentations for which SROA has received permission from the presenter to post are in the Members Network (Annual Meeting Presentations) module of the website. If there is a presentation that you would like and it is not posted, please contact the presenter directly for a copy. Jim Hugh's presentation Updates for 2009 and Further Into the Future (#032) is posted or you can contact Jim at james.hugh@amac-usa.com. NOTE: Because of the file size and/or amount of graphics, some presentations will take several minutes time to load.
Management Moment:
If you are looking for more information on radiation safety after the New York Times article this week on overdoses, the place to start is with past issues of the SROA publication Radiation Oncology News for Administrators. To begin, download the Volume 15, No. 2, Spring 2005 issue under "Member Services" and "Newsletters." Then look into the SROA listserv archives for a valuable presentation by Alan Burns..
Raising co-pays leads older Americans to bypass necessary care and increases hospital use, according to a Jan. 28, 2010, report in the New England Journal of Medicine at www.nejm.org.Raising co-pays leads older Americans to bypass necessary care and increases hospital use, according to a Jan. 28, 2010, report in the New England Journal of Medicine at www.nejm.org.
A dose of 0.5 Gy or higher is associated with a significantly elevated risk of stroke and heart disease, according to a Jan. 15, 2010, article in the online British Medical Journal at www.bmj.com.
A phase 2 trial targeting locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) found primary systemic therapy involving chemotherapy followed by surgery and radiation therapy effective for patients with initially inoperable disease.
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