Radiation Oncology

Raymond B. Mailhot, MD, MPH, discussed how radiation therapy can impact education and survivorship for pediatric survivors of brain tumors.

Significant results from a retrospective analysis of brain tumor survivor academic performance after radiotherapy emerged despite small sampling size.

Findings may help providers and patients with head and neck cancer consider whether to proceed with radiotherapy modalities, such as proton therapy or IMRT.

Raymond B. Mailhot, MD, MPH, discussed methods for comparing academic performances of patients following radiation therapy with healthy control groups.

Study results appear to affirm anecdotal information from patients with head and neck cancer related to taste changes during and after radiotherapy.

Noah S. Kalman, MD, MBA, describes the rationale for using a test to measure granular details of taste change in patients undergoing radiotherapy for HNC.

No evidence indicates synergistic toxicity when combining radiation with CAR T-cell therapy in this population, according to Timothy Robinson, MD, PhD.

The addition of radiotherapy to CAR T-cell therapy may particularly benefit patients with localized disease, according to Timothy Robinson, MD, PhD.

Timothy Robinson, MD, PhD, discusses how radiation may play a role as bridging therapy to CAR T-cell therapy for patients with relapsed/refractory DLBCL.

Results showed of the phase 3 ADRIATIC study found that treatment with durvalumab elicited similar radiation pneumonitis incidences vs placebo for LS-SCLC.

James Ninia, MD, discussed a phase 2/3 trial seeking to answer whether complete consolidation offers more benefit than incomplete consolidation in SCLC.

Overall survival benefit was significant with complete vs incomplete consolidation therapy, but lost significance when stratified by disease burden.

James Ninia, MD, discussed treatment options for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer undergoing metastasis-directed radiotherapy.

Whole or accelerated partial breast ultra-hypofractionated radiation in older patients with early breast cancer may reduce recurrence with low toxicity.

Ultra-hypofractionated radiation in those 65 years or older with early breast cancer yielded no ipsilateral recurrence after a 10-month follow-up.

The unclear role of hypofractionated radiation in older patients with early breast cancer in prior trials incentivized research for this group.

Phase 2 data support further evaluation of nivolumab plus standard radiotherapy in patients with Gleason grade 5 prostate cancer.

Data show that twice-daily radiotherapy may confer improved survival vs once-daily radiation in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer.

Use of DCISionRT may open new options for tailored treatments among patients with HER2-positive ductal carcinoma in situ.

Retrospective study data show that patients with inflammatory bowel disease may not require modification of standard radiotherapy for pelvic malignancies.

Prospective trial data may help guide treatment planning for patients with inflammatory bowel disease planning to undergo radiotherapy.

Efficacy findings were enhanced when 177Lu-Dotatate was used to treat patients with grade II/III recurrent meningioma.

UNITED is the first trial to assess MR-guided weekly adaptive on-line and real-time radiotherapy with clinical target volume margin reductions.

Data show no differences in bowel function between treatment arms based on factors including age, disease risk, and fractionation schedule.

Data from CCTG HE1 also show a numerical improvement an in overall survival with added radiotherapy over best supportive care alone.

A clinical trial evaluated the ability of oxygen-enhanced MRI-derived hypoxic volume to detect radiotherapy-induced hypoxia modification.

Vikek S. Kavadi, MD, MBA, FASTRO, succeeds Laura Thevenot, who plans to retire at the end of 2024 after leading the organization since 2002.

The use of CT scans may help practices adaptively plan and adjust radiotherapy courses for patients with non–small cell lung cancer.

Patients with NSCLC who have comorbidities or frailty may also be able to receive treatment with fewer toxicities via proton beam radiotherapy.

Terrence T. Sio, MD, MS, emphasizes multidisciplinary collaboration for treating patients with NSCLC who may require more than 1 type of therapy.