AWESOME 🔥🔥 video on #radiation treatment in honor of childhood cancer awareness month #CCAM by the amazing #MusicWithMsLiz. piped.video/fVCCce5IQ08 Excited for #pediatric #AYA advances at #ASTRO! And a subtle @BrighamRadOnc cameo 👀 @HElhalawaniMD @kevinxliu @DHaasKogan

Could “more bladder filling” actually make prostate radiotherapy harder for both patients and treatment teams?🎯 practicalradonc.org/article/… Excessive Bladder Filling at Simulation Correlates with Longer Treatment Times, More Interruptions, and Inferior Patient Experiences During #ProstateCancer Radiotherapy☢️ This study examined whether excessive bladder filling during prostate radiotherapy affects treatment efficiency and patient experience. ➡️Among 211 patients, bladder diameters >10 cm were associated with longer treatment times, more table interruptions, increased worry, and greater frustration. ➡️Importantly, coaching patients to reduce bladder size was feasible and successfully achieved in all 20 coached patients, resulting in shorter treatment times. ✅The findings support personalized bladder-filling guidance during prostate radiotherapy. @ASarafMD2, @jonathan_leeman, @DrPaulNguyen, @MoningiShalini @OncoAlert 🚨 #LPCCC27 @Silke_Gillessen @AOmlin @ProfKHerrmann @weoncologists

Next up @ASarafMD2 on phase II resident-med student #mentorship intervention in #radonc #MedEd Residents checked with faculty to learn if on track

Great experience to be a part of this work, now need more work in incorporating longitudinal #PROs into clinical workflow and associating with novel biomarkers like #ctDNA. So appreciate the amazing mentorship of @aparna1024 and @RyanNipp!! @BrighamRadOnc @MGHCancerCenter

Proud of our team jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… Esp co 1st authors @jxj1998 (now in med school) @ASarafMD2 (new attending) for their incredible work. Started as 2017 office conversation w/ @RyanNipp when we said let’s do this. pros matter! ctDNA data coming next @MGHCancerCenter

We really need to start incorporating PROs into routine oncology practice, but no easy way to do this in our EMR still. This is like geriatric assessment - needs institutional champions to move it forward, guidelines not enough. Difficult to find support.

This is an important paper, reinforcing yet again why PROs are not just an add-on, might be better than tumour markers! Patient-Reported Outcomes, Tumor Markers, and Survival Outcomes in Advanced GI Cancer jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

🪑Congratulations to @harvardmed Professor Andrea Ng MD, inaugural incumbent of the @BrighamWomens Distinguished Chair in Clinical Radiation Oncology! We are thrilled to celebrate her outstanding contributions to our field, institutions, and dept over the course of her career! 🏆

I had a great time discussing our research developing #NLP methods to actively support patients undergoing radiotherapy and other cancer treatment @AtlanticLIVE #PeopleVCancer @massgenbrigham @BrighamResearch

🗞️ Our latest work out today in @NatureComms 🌟 Led by star research fellow Anna Zapaishchykova 🧠 Automated temporalis muscle quantification and growth charts for children through adulthood rdcu.be/dqFGu 🧵 1/

🚨Interested in learning how to provide high-quality, guideline-driven care to older adult pts w/cancer? 📢Tune in for a joint session w/@CARG to learn about @ASCO’s new Practical GA. ➡️ 10/17/23 @ 2pm EST ➡️Leave❓for the experts below ➡️Sign-up at myconnection.asco.org/

Fantastic turnout for our inaugural @ASTRO_org #EarlyCareer Committee session on Developing as an Early Career practitoner! It's been such a rewarding year with PIC Vice Chair @bananaP08 and major props to @JamesBatesMD for leading this session! #ASTRO23

So honored to be invited to share on early career, such an important topic and great group of people to work with! #ASTRO2023 @A_CT_SimMDJD @JamesBatesMD @ChelainG @jaguaranna27 @BrighamRadOnc

🧵1/ 🙏🏾🙏🏾Thank you patients, families, trial staff and investigators for participating in @TROGfightcancer 15.03 FASTRACK II! This trial recruited n=70 across 8 sites in 🇦🇺 and 🇳🇱 #ASTRO23! #radonc #kcsm #radiotherapy @ANZUPtrials @KidneyCancer

#CCAM2023 spotlight is on Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, the @BrighamRadOnc Chair, and much more. @DHaasKogan has decades of expertise in the #pediatric #AYA #radonc patient care, #research, and clinical trials🎗️ 1/2

How did the change in NCCN guidelines for testicular seminoma in 2012 impact outcomes? Check out our findings in the Red Journal redjournal.org/article/S0360… @IJROBP from @harvardradonc, led by @danielbrosen and senior author @sophia_kamran @MGHCancerCenter [1/15]

1 of the first Qs I had at the start of my radonc journey on @BenjaminKannMD's service was how worried should I be abt pneumonitis when treating patients on osimertinib? 2yrs later & w/ lots of help from an amazing BWH/DFCI/MGH team, I am excited to share: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

🚀 your body composition research with age- and sex-adjusted reference values for skeletal muscle cross-sectional area, density, gauge, SMI on Chest and Abdomen CT of the Framingham Heart Study 🫀muscle-metrics.mgh.harvard.e… Free online Z-score calculator, including batch processing!!

Grateful for how much I learned from you and Dr. Himmelstein while working on this together!