ACRO: RadOnc/Prostate cancer webinar with Dr. Mack Roach

[aporeminiscence]

ACRO: American College of Radiation Oncology Resident Committee Presents

Low Dose Rate (LDR) Brachytherapy
Thursday, September 6, 5:30 PT (8:30ET)


Dr. Mack Roach (Radiation Oncology) and Dr. Katsuto Shinohara (Urology)

Are you interested in Prostate brachytherapy? Don't get much LDR brachytherapy exposure? If so, you are in luck! On this Thursday Sept 6, 2018 at 5:30pm PST, the ACRO resident committee will be hosting a special webinar session on low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy led by Dr. Mack Roach (Radiation Oncology) and Dr. Katsuto Shinohara (Urology) from the University of California San Francisco.

Drs. Roach and Shinohara will share their extensive experience in treating prostate cancer patients with LDR brachytherapy during this one-hour session. Specific topics will include:

1. History and practice patterns
2. Indication and Candidate Selection
3. Patient evaluation, Contraindications and Treatment Planning
4. Acute and long term complications
5. Review and discussion of landmark studies and patient outcomes

To register for this webinar please reply to this thread for a link to register.


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[knuckles]

I'm in

 

[Haybrant]

Thanks for forwarding the link

 

[aporeminiscence]

Thanks for forwarding the link

Sorry I can't seem to send you the link (it won't let me start a conversation). If you can go on the ACRO website, the link to sign up is under the RESIDENTS>WEBINAR

 

[RadOncDoc21]

Who uses LDR brachytherapy anymore and isn’t the reimbursement low?

 

[seper]

Nationwide, 40-60% do, is my best guess.

Who uses LDR brachytherapy anymore and isn’t the reimbursement low?

 

[medgator]

Nationwide, 40-60% do, is my best guess.

Brachy use in general has been declining for several years in prostate though. I don't think it's that high overall.

Logistically it is difficult to do brachy in my practice in a freestanding setting so I refer it out (there are some hdr guys i send to).

 

[seper]

I'm aware that in community EBRT alone is common. Question is, what proportion of prostate brachy is now HDR?

Brachy use in general has been declining for several years in prostate though. I don't think it's that high overall.

Logistically it is difficult to do brachy in my practice in a freestanding setting so I refer it out (there are some hdr guys i send to).

 

[RadOncDoc21]

Nationwide, 40-60% do, is my best guess.

Fake news! Maybe HDR, but def not LDR.

 

[seper]

What HDR is not LDR?

Fake news! Maybe HDR, but def not LDR.

 

[evilbooyaa]

Fake news! Maybe HDR, but def not LDR.

LDR brachytherapy for prostate is still very prominent. HDR for prostate is getting picked up more and more, but many places are still trying to develop HDR prostate programs, while LDR is ol' reliable.

 

[RadOncDoc21]

In the words of Eric Cartman: "Screw you guys I'm going home!"

 

[OTN]

My partner locally does HDR and one of our partners at another facility does LDR, so it does still happen. However, with the urorads group in town basically having a monopoly (I have 30 patients under tx right now and only 1 prostate), not much point in spending the time/money to set up a program.

 

[medgator]

My partner locally does HDR and one of our partners at another facility does LDR, so it does still happen. However, with the urorads group in town basically having a monopoly (I have 30 patients under tx right now and only 1 prostate), not much point in spending the time/money to set up a program.

The urorads may set it up themselves when bundles go mainstream

 

[seper]

Would be nice to have utilization survey, like ASTRO has done with cervical brachy.