Mayo Clinic Radiation Oncology: Current Practice and Future Direction 2023

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 post-operative management of brain metastases, current status in immunotherapy for GI cancers, updates on systemic therapy, and breast cancers.  The course will also address several important advances in the field, such as circulating tumor DNA, the role of surgery, immune stimulation with radiotherapy, practice updates, 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 the program, participants should be able to:

• Identify recent updates in surgical axillary management for breast cancer
• Describe the post-operative management of brain metastases including current controversies
• Review substructures and autosegmentation in CNS contouring
• Recall ways to prevent and manage GI complications of radiotherapy
• Examine immune stimulation with radiotherapy

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.

Course Date and Location

January 9-13, 2023

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

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