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ROCR Act 2025: Congress Takes Step Toward Patient-Centered, Value-Based Cancer Care with Bipartisan Plan

The Radiation Oncology Case Rate (ROCR) Value Based Payment Program Act of 2025 (S.1031), sponsored by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), would protect access to high quality cancer care and improve outcomes for patients...
14-Mar-2025 8:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

ASTRO Issues Its First Clinical Guideline on Radiation Therapy for Anal Cancer

A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides guidance on the use of radiation therapy to treat adult patients with primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the anal canal and anal margin. The guideline,...
27-Feb-2025 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

New ASTRO Survey Finds That Prior Authorization Delays Lead to Serious Harm for People with Cancer

A new nationwide survey of more than 750 radiation oncologists confirms that prior authorization harms people with cancer by causing treatment delays, abandoned treatments, hospitalizations and patient deaths. Findings also make clear that the...
3-Dec-2024 8:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

ASTRO Issues Update to Clinical Guideline on Radiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued today an updated clinical guideline for physicians who use radiation therapy to treat patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. This update incorporates new data on patient selection and...
25-Nov-2024 9:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

ASTRO Celebrates Contributions to Radiation Oncology with 2024 Gold Medals and Other Awards

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recognized the recipients of its 2024 Gold Medal awards and other high-profile honors during an awards ceremony during the 66th ASTRO Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Photos of the awardees and...
10-Oct-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Spiritual Themes, Distrust May Factor Into Black Patients’ Reluctance to Participate in Cancer Clinical Trials

Surveys from two Baltimore medical centers shed light on what may be fueling enrollment declines
26-Sep-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy Can Be Shortened by Nearly Half for Patients Planning Breast Reconstruction

An accelerated course of radiation therapy does not increase complications for patients who undergo breast reconstruction following a mastectomy, new research shows. Findings of the large, phase III RT CHARM trial (Alliance A221505) will be...
26-Sep-2024 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Existing Standard Chemoradiation Superior to Deintensification Approaches for HPV-Related Oropharyngeal Cancer

Researchers looking to de-intensify radiation treatments for people with early-stage, HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer to prevent long-term side effects halted a large, randomized phase II/III trial after patients in the control arm reached a...
26-Sep-2024 9:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites


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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is the largest radiation oncology society in the world, with roughly 10,000 members who are physicians, nurses, biologists, physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists and other health care professionals who specialize in treating patients with radiation therapies. Radiation therapy contributes to 40% of global cancer cures, and more than a million Americans receive radiation treatments for cancer each year. ASTRO publishes three medical journals, International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics, Practical Radiation Oncology, and Advances in Radiation Oncology, and maintains an extensive patient information website, www.RTAnswers.org. To learn more about ASTRO, visit us at www.astro.org.

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