Course Description and Intended Audience

Mayo Clinic Radiation Oncology: Current Practice and Future Direction is intended to provide balanced and multidisciplinary discussion of contemporary cancer treatment using didactic lectures, panel discussions, and poster sessions. The course will cover several specific clinical areas including lung, genitourinary, and head and neck. The course will also address several important advances in the field, such as the use of stereotactic body radiotherapy, the role of surgery, proton therapy, advances in imaging, and new chemotherapies, as well as how they are integrated into clinical practice.

This course is designed for radiation oncologists, radiation oncology residents, radiation biologists, radiation physicists, dosimetrists, oncologists working in related specialties, radiation therapists, radiation oncology nurses, oncologic surgeons, radiation oncology administrators, diagnostic radiologists, and all other health professionals involved in the field of radiation oncology.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Describe the management of Pelvic and Para-aortic Lymph Nodes in Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy
• Identify recent advances in head and neck cancer
• Examine the role of surgery in locally advanced NSCLC
• Analyze clinical applications and response in grid therapy

Attendance at this Mayo course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be discussed or taught in this course.

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Course Date and Location

January 17-21, 2022

Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa
200 Nohea Kai Drive
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii 96762

Attendance at this Mayo Clinic course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be discussed or taught in this course.

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