American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

The 2025 Annual Refresher is now available onDemand! Access 24+ hours of educational content, claim credits and more. Purchase now ➡️ ow.ly/vOjn50VFL84

📢 Calling all medical students! Join us for our next Med Student Q&A on Tuesday, June 17, at 8 P.M. ET. This live session features a RadOnc and a RadOnc resident, offering a unique opportunity to learn more about the specialty. 🔗Reserve your spot: ow.ly/qsuN50VZgs8

New in #practicalRO: A Resident’s Guide to Evaluation of Prostate High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Treatment Plans: An American Brachytherapy Society Technical Report. #radonc tinyurl.com/prohathout

New in #practicalRO: Lung stereotactic body radiotherapy using dynamic conformal arc therapy with or without flattening filter photon beam– a French institutional experience. #radonc tinyurl.com/massabeau1

📣 Registration & housing for #ASTRO25 are NOW OPEN! This year's Annual Meeting will take place September 27 ‒ October 1 in San Francisco, CA.
➡️ Learn more & register here: www.astro.org/meetings-and...

ASTRO is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 ASTRO Gold Medal Award. The recipients will be presented with the Gold Medal at the #ASTRO25 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. www.astro.org/about-astro/...

🇺🇸Excited to be in DC with Dr Joyner @mdanderson.bsky.social & 100 other #radonc. We here advocating for pts with cancer by urging support for the #ROCR Act, to #fixpriorAuth, & to fund discovery of the next cancer cure thru #cancerResearch @astro-org.bsky.social

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New in #practicalRO: Partial breast radiotherapy in low-risk breast cancer using a MRI-guided adaptive approach; results of the phase II PARLOB study. #radonc tinyurl.com/bruynzeel1

ASTRO'S 67TH ANNUAL MEETING 2025 REDISCOVERING RADIATION MEDICINE AND EXPLORING NEW INDICATIONS

🙌 Congrats on #ASTRO25 abstract acceptance day!! I'm excited to join the brightest minds in #radonc for @astro-org.bsky.social's annual meeting this fall in San Francisco, CA from September 27 ‒ October 1.

➡️ Registration is open! ow.ly/FSUg50VRhe3

📣 Registration & housing for #ASTRO25 are NOW OPEN! This year's Annual Meeting will take place September 27 ‒ October 1 in San Francisco, CA.
➡️ Learn more & register here: ow.ly/FSUg50VRhe3

Grateful to @astro-org.bsky.social for an energizing SCAROP meeting! It was fantastic to connect with colleagues from across the country and dive into the big conversations shaping the future of our field.

The 2025 Annual Refresher is now available onDemand! Access 24+ hours of educational content, claim credits and more. Purchase now ➡️ ow.ly/vOjn50VFL84

This week we celebrate all the nurses who go the extra mile to keep us safe and healthy. Thank you for your dedication to patient care. 👏 #NationalNursesWeek #NationalNursesDay

📢 Calling all medical students! Join us for our next Med Student Q&A TODAY, May 6, at 8 PM ET. This live session features a RadOnc and a RadOnc resident, offering a unique opportunity to learn more about the specialty. 🔗 Reserve your spot: ow.ly/GwfU50TM8lx

Catch up on all the latest happenings in the Society News section of the 2025 Spring ASTROnews!
➡️Read it here: astro.org/ASTROnews

📢 Calling all medical students!

Join us for our next Med Student Q&A on Tuesday, May 6, at 8 PM ET. This live session features a RadOnc and a RadOnc resident, offering a unique opportunity to learn more about the specialty.

🔗 Reserve your spot: ow.ly/GwfU50TM8lx

Book your Advocacy Day housing by Wed. 4/30 to secure the group rate.
Join your colleagues and speak with members of Congress on behalf of #radonc and our patients.
➡️ Learn more and register today: ow.ly/1usz50V2VR0
#ASTROadvocacy

Deadline approaching ⏰ ASTRO invites support organizations in California to apply for the 2025 Survivor Circle Grant. This grant will be recognized at #ASTRO25, Sept. 27-Oct. 1, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Apply by April 25: ow.ly/lAW850VzYoJ

New in #practicalRO: Patterns of Recurrence After D2 Radical Surgery for Gastric Cancer: Implications for Postoperative Radiation Therapy. #radonc tinyurl.com/projiang

Dosimetric advantages of online adaptive radiation therapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: results from a prospective registry study.
Read about it in the #RedJournal: tinyurl.com/redsher1
@ijrobp.bsky.social

ASTRO has awarded 14 #RadOnc residents EAGL awards to attend Advocacy Day 2025 in Washington, DC, May 19-20. See the list of EAGL award grantees here: ow.ly/alHs50VBVfA

There is still time to register for #ASTROAdvocacy Day, register here: ow.ly/l36m50VBVfB

Check out this new #RedJournal article from @nrgonc.bsky.social c on a comprehensive molecular analysis in NRG Oncology/RTOG 9813: A Phase III study of radiation and temozolomide vs radiation and BCNU/CCNU in anaplastic astrocytoma: tinyurl.com/redfleming

Minimizing bowel gas artifact in CT-guided online adaptive radiotherapy with prolonged supine positioning Abdominal computed tomography (CT)-guided online adaptive stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) treatments can be complicated by bowel gas artifact. We investigated whether prolonged patient supin...

Read this new brief report on minimizing bowel gas artifact in CT-guided online adaptive radiotherapy with prolonged supine positioning in the #RedJournal: tinyurl.com/redhkim
@ijrobp.bsky.social

The #ASTROnews Spring issue is here! 🎉 This issue showcases real-world examples of innovative individuals and groups who have implemented strategic plans and executed or pivoted to adjust course.
➡️Learn more: ow.ly/cFHK50VzYEp

We recently welcomed leaders from @astro-org.bsky.social. They toured our beautiful campus and met with our radiation oncology team. We’re grateful for the visit and proud to showcase the work happening here to advance research, training, and patient care.

New in this week's ASTROgram: Call for Committee Volunteers, Refresher Course is NOW, ASTRO joins groups calling for NIH funding
➡️https://ow.ly/NJ1250VxOqH

The 2025 Virtual Annual Refresher Course starts tomorrow! 📣 Nicholas G. Zaorsky, MD, MS invites you to join him for his session on April 11. Register today ➡️ ow.ly/hgiz50VwBjB

ONE more day until the 2025 Virtual Annual Refresher Course! 📣

Join your colleagues online from April 9-11 for this comprehensive review of the latest treatment methods & core competencies for the major disease sites.
➡️ Register now: ow.ly/e0Nf50V25Vx

Honorary Member nominations are open now through this Friday, April 11. The Honorary Member is one of ASTRO's highest honors bestowed on revered members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of #RadOnc.
Learn more ➡️ ow.ly/TSMP50VvMrP

We are TWO days away from the 2025 Virtual Annual Refresher Course! 📣

Join your colleagues online from April 9-11 for this comprehensive review of the latest treatment methods & core competencies for the major disease sites.
➡️ Register now: ow.ly/e0Nf50V25Vx