Challenging Cases in Cervix Cancer - 2021 Annual Meeting

Challenging Cases in Cervix Cancer - 2021 Annual Meeting is organized by American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Course Opens: 01/10/2022
Course Expires: 01/09/2025

Description:
This course presents challenging cases of women with cervix cancer, either due to poorly studied disease subsets (e.g. paraortic nodal disease management and nodal recurrent disease) , newer advances in standard intracavitary brachytherapy( eg hybrid brachytherapy indications and implementation), technically challenging distributions of disease (e.g. IIIA and IVA cervix cancer needing complex interstitial brachytherapy) or newly controversial subjects in when and how radiation therapy should be used and integrated with systemic therapy (e.g. oligometastatic and oligoprogressive recurrent cervix cancer).

Topics of particular interest are how to integrate SAbR with targeted therapy for cervix cancer and use of complex image guided interstitial brachytherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer. The organizers solicited cases from social media (Mednet, chartrounds RO Hub) to engage attendees more thoroughly before, during, and after the session. A significant amount of time is also spent in presenting to engage the audience for cases from their practice that may be helpful for the rest of the attendees to hear.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Explain the rationale and choice for radiation therapy in cervix cancer with extensive nodal disease.
• Determine the best brachytherapy treatment options for assymetric large primary cervical cancers and choice of hybrid brachytherapy technique AND image-based complex interstitial brachytherapy approach for Stage IIIA and IV A cervix cancer.
• Determine the ideal approach for integrating radiation and systemic therapy for cervix cancer cancer.