Dr. Minesh Mehta is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern University, and he is also a world leader in the study and management of brain metastases.  He was kind enough to join us for a webinar several weeks ago in which he discussed the evidence about the benefits as well as the acute and longer term risks of various treatments that might prevent the development brain metastases or treat them if they’re identified.

Here is the podcast of his presentation in both audio and video form.  Along with them, you’ll find below the transcript and figures associated with this program.

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In this audio interview with Dr. Vivek Mehta, Radiation Oncologist and Director of the Center for Advanced Targeted Radiotherapy at Swedish Cancer Institute, Dr. Mehta explains current and emerging new radiation techniques, as well as the current state of radiation therapy to treat patients with “medically unresectable” early stage NSCLC, or patients who decline the option of surgery for resectable disease.  He also covers side effect challenges with radiation and particularly when chest radiation is combined with chemotherapy.  In addition to the audio portion, there are a few figures synchronized with the discussion in the video version, or you can just download the figures as a separate pdf file.  The transcript is also provided below.

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