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Post by Tony Crispino on Apr 17, 2014 19:36:59 GMT -8
We have received confirmation of two upcoming webinars to be announced soon. One will be on Integrative Oncology. And one will be on the general but technical aspects of radiation oncology.
We will be meeting with the physicians staff this next week and discussing the dates. Stay tuned.
Please submit questions here for the following the above topics.
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Post by Allen on Apr 18, 2014 16:28:28 GMT -8
Tony, perhaps you can provide a couple of sentences for each topic, describing what they will be discussing. For example, will the webinar on Integrative Oncology discuss such topics as "how do we assess the level of evidence for the efficacy of psychological, dietary and lifestyle modifications," or "Exercise: evidence for it's value in prevention, during radiation, after RP, during ADT," etc. I can think of dozens of topics that would each take over an hour. Similarly, I'm flummoxed by "general but technical" aspects of radiation oncology - does that mean dosimetry? conformality?use of multileaf collimators? IGRT techniques? VMAT, IMRT or Robotic systems? hypofractionation? etc. That would help us better formulate our questions. Thanks!
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Post by Tony Crispino on Apr 18, 2014 19:32:23 GMT -8
Some great points on an advanced level. But you're right. I'm just teeing off here. As soon as we best define our program I will update and post the event with the topic of the Webinars. But let be clarify.
Integrative Oncology is the use of CAMs in conjunction with conventional treatment in the fight against cancer. CAM's or complementary and/or alternative medicine are the idea of using mind, body, spirit approaches as opposed to tumor only approaches to treating a cancer patient. All too many times a patient is treated with conventional medicine because the scientific community best relates to evidence based medicine while leaving out evidence based alternative medicine to fight tumors or the side effects of treatment. Mark Moyad has said it well in his books and online presentations. "Making changes that improve your health, such as dietary improvements and exercise may or may not help your fight against prostate cancer. But they are likely to help you with what is more likely to kill you anyway while improving your quality of life along the way."
Radiation Oncology is much simpler. It;s the use of many various ways to treat prostate cancer through radiation therapy. Dr. Brian Lawenda comes from the Harvard Cancer Center and the chief resident of the radiation oncology cancer center. They do Brachytherapy, They do IMRT, they do IGRT, they do proton therapy, they do SBRT they do Alpharadin, They do jet about every option and he was in the game.
You have just tipped my hand here. He is the presenter of this Webinar. The door is wide open for great responses to any radiation oncology question.
I'll provide more details with each of the webinars as we choose the dates.
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