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Dr. Jack West is a medical oncologist and thoracic oncology specialist who is the Founder and previously served as President & CEO, currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE)

 

Dr. Silvestri on Radiation Pneumonitis and Lung Complications from Targeted Therapies
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Howard (Jack) West, MD

Here's the second half of the presentation by Dr. Gerard Silvestri, expert pulmonologist and critical care specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, on pulmonary complications from lung cancer treatment.  In this part, he briefly covers the side effects of some systemic targeted therapies used as a treatment for lung cancer, then covers the important topic of radiation pneumonitis in some detail.

Here is the podcast in video and audio versions, along with the transcript and figures.

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Dr. Silvestri Pulm Complics LC Treatment Targeted Rx and RT Pneumonitis Audio Podcast

Dr. Silvestri Pulm Complics LC Treatment Targeted Rx and RT Pneumonitis Transcript

Dr. Silvestri Pulm Complics LC Treatment Targeted Rx and RT Pneumonitis Figs

 

I hope this program is helpful. We'll be moving on to our next webinar, with Dr. Vivek Mehta covering refinements in increasingly targeted radiation therapy approaches for lung cancer, in the next few weeks.

 

 

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