Ringing in the NEW year with a NEW case on vaginal cancer and a Buckeye win! Happy 2025 everyone!

And a HUGE thanks to Dr Cindy Ko of Kaiser Permanante for helping review today’s script!! Kaiser Radiation Oncology Residency

A new episode of ATB is now up on HCC! Featuring guest Dr Judy Lubas of Fox Chase Cancer Center 🦊 🎧Find the episode at the link below! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/at-…

When you’re constantly reviewing radiotherapy isodose distributions on large computer screens it’s easy to lose sight of just how amazingly accurate linacs are. We can deliver ablative doses of radiation with mm accuracy! Here are a list of other things that are 1 mm in size

A 33 min overview of GI rad onc! I made this video for an oral boards review course, sharing here. It’s just 5 slides (below) & me talking the whole time, so you can just listen. Hope it’s helpful! Link next post, and short 🧵.

Top ten reasons to come train with us at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles!!...

3. Resident lectures from approachable and accessible attendings like Hyunsoo Joshua No, MD, CMD and "physics" trips to Griffith Observatory with our favorite physicist Javad Rahimian, PhD

Now available- a new episode on Gastric MALT featuring and reviewed by two of our favs, Stephanie Dudzinski MD, PhD (PGY4 at MDACC) and Jillian Gunther!!

Our residents Nancy Zhou, MD and Fara Dayani, MD MAS had the best time working on lit review for the guidelines and learning from Horatio Thomas and the rest of the task force - thanks for including! 🤓

Why an applicant would use a pseudonym to send a complaining email, 9 days before rank lists were due, to a residency program at which they’d done an away rotation and a research project (and at which they were ranked highly) is beyond me. But anyhow, now they’re on PubMed.

In-press link for our Phase I/II dose escalation trial of 3-fraction SRS for large brain metastasis resection cavities! redjournal.org/article/S0360-… I continue to be grateful for the mentorship of Dr. Scott Soltys, who is the definition of a true teacher and sponsor for trainees.

Congratulations to everyone who matched into #RadOnc this week! 🎉 Don’t forget— ASTRO membership is free for med students: astro.org/Membership/Mem… #MatchDay2025

Breaking News! Please meet our newest residents Dr. Faustina Adams and Dr. Samuel To! Welcome to the Kaiser and rad/onc family. #radonc #kaiser #matchday2025

Night 2 of Mock Orals completed! Good luck to everyone taking the real boards in two weeks. For those just practicing, keep it up! #radonc #kaiserpermanente

For select breast cancer patients with complete response to neoadjuvant systemic therapy, radiotherapy alone without breast surgery may be feasible, as no tumor recurrences were observed at 5-year follow-up. ja.ma/426mLaK Henry Kuerer HelenMJohnsonMD Simona F. Shaitelman MD, EdM

We thought it important to share some unsolicited thoughts on advice re: personal statements that has been passed down through generations of trainees. Congrats to Matthew J. Farrell for once again, sharing his literary talent with us all!

🔥 Hot off the press: Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, and his team published a new study in nature demonstrating that high-dose radiation to primary tumors can unexpectedly promote tumor growth at metastatic sites. Ralph Weichselbaum Andras Piffko University of Chicago Radiation Oncology uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/canc…

Caring for patients with cholangiocarcinoma is deeply personal. Thank you Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation for sharing my story! UCLA Health cholangiocarcinoma.org/qa-with-dr-tru…

Understanding the intricate interactions between tumors and the immune system is crucial for developing safe and effective treatments. Read about this research in an update from the Binkley Lab in our department: linkedin.com/pulse/explorin…

Radiation Forgiveness & Re-irradiation & Monkeys 🙈🙊🙉 ============ I derived a simple equation to use "in clinico" TL;DR: To calculate spinal cord re-RT forgiveness,