Radium= Vacation
ASTRO= Rad Onc Conference, more competitive than Radium for sure, but still not difficult
ASCO= oncology 'world fair,' most competitive to get an abstract into. big radiation oncology trials used to be presented at astro, but preference is now changing to asco. In my opinion, this makes sense-- as radiation oncologists we have to show the benefit/emerging trends to our colleagues who refer us patients, not to just radiation oncologist.
not exactly true... getting an abstract 'accepted' is not that difficult, thouugh a large number are accepted for publication only (i.e. no talk or poster).
Radium= Vacation
ASTRO= Rad Onc Conference, more competitive than Radium for sure, but still not difficult
ASCO= oncology 'world fair,' most competitive to get an abstract into. big radiation oncology trials used to be presented at astro, but preference is now changing to asco. In my opinion, this makes sense-- as radiation oncologists we have to show the benefit/emerging trends to our colleagues who refer us patients, not to just radiation oncologist.
Radium is a much smaller conference and more intimate. If you wanted to network with people from other universities including some prominent radoncs, Radium might give you more opportunity. Its been about 5 years since my last Radium, but at that time I recall high ranking attendings from Stanford, MDACC, Yale, etc in attendance
