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For Women's History Month, Duke Radiation Oncology is spotlighting some of the exceptional women of our Department, starting with Professor of Radiation Oncology and Medical Physicist&nbs

Dr. Koontz and co-author Thomas Hope, MD, congratulated the STAMPEDE trial group on improving understanding of best treatment options and confirming that focusing more aggressive therapies targeting bulkier sites of disease can improve survival when the systemic burden of disease is low, but noted that more work is yet to be done to understand the role of metastasis-directed therapy and the influence of better imaging on quantifying the burden of disease and predicting benefit of RT for metastatic prostate cancer.

Colin Champ, MD, CSCS, has received a donation of $300,000 from the Marie McCandless Foundation to fund nutrition and cancer research. 

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Butler Harris Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology Yvonne Mowery, MD, PhD, was quoted in an article – "Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Y

In September, Journal of Clinical Oncology published a study on machine learning–directed clinical evaluations during cancer treatment. 

Duke Radiation Oncology is proud to represent our Department during ASTRO 2020. Please see below for presentations and posters from our faculty and staff.

 

Please join Radiation Oncology's Diversity & Inclusion Team for a lecture on September 2, 2020, from 8:00-9:00 am featuring Jennifer J. Griggs, MD, MPH, FACP, FASCO. Dr.

Honor recognizes exceptional service to the field of radiation oncology and cancer care

When Peter Hendrickson, MD, PhD, starts his training this July, he will be embarking on a new chapter of the Duke Radiation Oncology Residency Program, as the first train