#LCSM Chat 9/17 8pm ET: Surgery or Radiation for Early Staged, Operable Lung Cancer: Which Road Should I Take?
Surgery or Radiation for Early Staged, Operable Lung Cancer: Which Road Should I Take? By guest host Mara B. Antonoff, MD, and host David Tom Cooke, MD As a newly established group in the world of health care social media, the Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network (#TSSMN, @tssmn) is thrilled for the opportunity to cohost our first Tweet chat with #LCSM Chat. We are delighted at this collaboration, bringing together a number of key stakeholders in lung cancer and thoracic surgery, for an important discussion regarding the roles of surgical resection and… Read More
#LCSM Chat 7/30 8pm ET: What’s the Role Today of Whole Brain Radiation for #LungCancer with Brain Metastases?
by H. Jack West, MD Brain metastases are relatively common in lung cancer, seen in about 15% of cases, and the management of them is evolving as technology and our preferences change. For decades, whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) was the only game in town and did a reasonable job controlling a problem that we couldn’t manage readily any other way – chemotherapy generally doesn’t penetrate well into the brain, and brain surgery is only a feasible option for one or a few brain metastases, not many. But over the past 10-15… Read More
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