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What are your top takeaways in GU Cancers from ASTRO 2024?

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Radiation Oncology · UC San Diego
  1. The Presidential Symposium was outstanding. Dr. Brandon Mahal’s presentation hit on a top priority for the field, in my view: how do we improve/accelerate the implementation of advances like focal microboost for prostate cancer? RCT evidence of benefit to dose escalation is rare in rad onc. The FLA...

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Radiation Oncology · UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
  1. PARTIQoL: This phase III trial randomized 450 men with low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer to receive definitive external beam radiation therapy with either photons (control arm) or protons (experimental arm). The radiation dose/fractionation was either conventional fractionation or moderate...

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
  1. @Dr. First Last, MD, PhD presented the results of the PARTIQoL trial, a Phase III Randomized Clinical Trial of Proton Therapy vs. IMRT for Localized Prostate Cancer. Patients with intermediate- or low-risk prostate cancer were randomized to PBT or IMRT, without hormonal therapy, stratified for inst...

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Radiation Oncology · St. Francis Radiation Oncology

The PARTIQoL study being negative was huge - and validates what we saw in our claims-based analyses.

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Radiation Oncology · Duke University Medical Center
The PARTIQoL trial can help reassure patients that they need not travel long distances to receive proton therapy for their localized prostate cancer.

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Radiation Oncology · University of Michigan

The plenary on prostate (proton vs photon) - both arms did very well, no clear benefit of protons

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