On May 11, Dr. Alex Lin, a radiation oncologist from the University of Pennsylvania, joined us on GRACE to give a webinar. Dr. Lin’s practice and research focus on radiation therapy for lung cancer and cancers of the head and neck. His talk focuses on the use of adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of head and neck cancer. Patients with head and neck cancer are treated with either surgery or radiation as curative therapy. Many patients who are treated with surgery can be treated with additional radiation therapy to increase their cure rate after the surgery (adjuvant therapy). Dr. Lin provides here an excellent introduction to what radiation is, how it is given, and who should get it in the adjuvant setting.

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After we post the podcast of the Q&A session that followed this presentation by Dr. Lin, we’ll post another podcast by Dr. Ezra Cohen, medical oncologist at the University of Chicago, on chemotherapy in the post-operative setting for head/neck cancer.

We thank Eli Lilly Oncology for their educational grant supporting this program.

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