ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club

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.ASTRO and ARRO are pleased to announce the opening of registration for the ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club. ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club’s debut webinar will be hosted live on March 30, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. EST by Anthony Zietman, M.D. and will focus on Prostate Cancer. Anthony Zietman, M.D. will present on his recently published article and will facilitate a resident-lead discussion on the article and associated content..
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.The discussion article can be found by clicking the following link:.. ..Randomized Trial Comparing Conventional-Dose With High-Dose Conformal Radiation Therapy in Early-Stage Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate: Long-Term Results From Proton Radiation Oncology Group/American College of Radiology 95-09... .
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.With a limited number of seats available, residents who are in the same location are encouraged to register as a group to allow for maximum participation. If you are registering as a group, please select one resident to complete the registration process. Click here to register for the ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club..

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[napoleondynamite]

Whoever set this up is awesome. I think it is a fabulous idea and am looking forward to it, thanks!

 

[Gfunk6]

Props to ARRO for this excellent presentation and Q&A w/ Dr. Zietman!

 

[napoleondynamite]

Very well done! Loved the Q&A format at the end as well. Thanks again

 

[Cancerdancer]

Agree, excellent idea by the folks at ARRO. Apparently they have the next 12 months lined up, so we can expect plenty more of this...

 

[twang]

The next ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. ET. We are excited to have Larry Kun, M.D., FASTRO, as the faculty leader and he will be presenting on the topic of Childhood Cancer. Dr. Kun will discuss two concurrently published journal articles.

The main article can be found at the following internet publication site: Phase II Trial of Conformal Radiation Therapy for Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma. Dr. Kun has also suggested that residents look at this related article.

 

[Raygun77]

The next ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinar will be held on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. ET. We are excited to have Larry Kun, M.D., FASTRO, as the faculty leader and he will be presenting on the topic of Childhood Cancer. Dr. Kun will discuss two concurrently published journal articles.

The main article can be found at the following internet publication site: Phase II Trial of Conformal Radiation Therapy for Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma. Dr. Kun has also suggested that residents look at this related article.

only for members. dang

 

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.The next ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 5:00 P.M. (EDT). The faculty leader will be Richard Hoppe, M.D., FASTRO. Dr. Hoppe will be presenting on the topic of Lymphomas and his article can be found at the following internet location: Randomized Comparison of ABVD Chemotherapy With a Strategy That Includes Radiation Therapy in Patients With Limited-Stage Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group.

 

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.The next ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinar will be held on Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 5:00 P.M. (EDT). The faculty leader will be Louis Harrison, M.D., FASTRO. Dr. Harrison will be presenting on the topic of Head and Neck Cancer and his article can be found by navigating to the following internet location: Improved Survival of Patients With Human Papillomavirus-Positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Prospective Clinical Trial..

.Registration for this webinar is now open ..on the ARRO website... With a limited number of seats available, residents who are in the same location are encouraged to register as a group to allow for maximum participation. If you are registering as a group, please select one resident to complete the registration process...
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The next ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinar will be held on Thursday, July 27, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. The faculty leader will be Christopher Willett, M.D., FASTRO. Dr. Willett will be presenting on the topic of Gastrointestinal Cancer and has select two articles to focus on. Both articles can be found online and can be accessed through the following links: “Preoperative radiotherapy versus selective postoperative chemoradiotherapy in patients with rectal cancer (MRC CR07 and NCIC-CTG C016): a multicentre, randomized trial.” and “Effect of the plane of surgery achieved on local recurrence in patients with operable rectal cancer: a prospective study using data from the MRC CR07 and NCIC-CTG CO16 randomised clinical trial.”

Registration for this webinar is now open on the ARRO website. With a limited number of seats available, residents who are in the same location are encouraged to register as a group to allow for maximum participation. If you are registering as a group, please select one resident to complete the registration process.

On-demand recordings of previous ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinars are now available on the ARRO website for those of you who missed any of the live events or would like to view them again.

 

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.The next ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinar will be held on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. The faculty leader will be Patricia J. Eifel, M.D., F.A.C.R., FASTRO and she will present on a recently published Gynecologic Cancer article. After her presentation, Dr. Eifel will take resident questions on the article and associated disease site content. .

.The article can be found online and accessed through the following link: Vaginal brachytherapy versus pelvic external beam radiotherapy for patients with endometrial cancer of high-intermediate risk (PORTEC-2): an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised trial..

.Registration for this webinar is now open ..on the ARRO website. With a limited number of seats available, residents who are in the same location are encouraged to register as a group to allow for maximum participation. If you are registering as a group, please select one resident to complete the registration process.
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With the recent changes to the ASTRO website, residents can now register for each of the remaining 2011 Journal Club Webinars online. Take advantage of this great opportunity and add these events to your calendar now.

The next Journal Club Webinar will take place on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. The featured speaker will be Thomas DeLaney, MD, who will present and take questions on Sarcoma. Register now!

On-demand recordings of previous ASTRO-ARRO Journal Club webinars are available on the ARRO website for those of you who missed any of the live events or would like to view them again.

 

[twang]

Just a reminder that the ARRO/ASTRO Journal Club Webinar series continues today at 5pm EST. Dr. Thomas Delaney will be speaking on sarcoma. Should be a good one!

http://www.astro.org/ARRO/EducationalResources/JournalClub/index.aspx

Today's article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21264834