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 Breast, Prostate, and CNS cancers as well as Lymphoma and Sarcomas. The course will also address several important advances in the field, such as the use of hypofractionation, integration of surgery, new chemotherapies including immunotherapy and their integration 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:

• Review the treatments for challenging breast cases
• Determine the case for SBRT/RT for Oligometastatic Disease
• Evaluate the management of recurrent high grade glioma 
• Manage the treatment of the Node Positive Breast Cancer Patient
• Review particle therapy for skull base tumors
• Rank in priority the techniques to spare cognition after cranial radiotherapy

Course Date and Location

January 6-10, 2020

The Westin Hapuna Beach Resort
62-100 Kauna'oa Drive
Kohala Coast, Kamuela, Hawaii 96743

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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