Radiation Oncology

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Annual screenings improve chances of catching disease early and new guidelines expand opportunities

‘This is about trying to get to a time when no one dies of lung cancer,’ says Dr. Drew Moghanaki, chief of thoracic oncology for UCLA Health.

‘Too often we focus on the science and forget the humanity of medicine, and that’s part of what our department is trying to change,’ says Dr. Puja Venkat

‘If you want to know the main feeling, it was just gratitude,’ says Judy Gasson, former director of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, who underwent treatment in 2020

How to detect early signs

'It goes to show what smart doctors can do,’ says John Babcock, who was treated with short-course radiotherapy

‘Prostate cancer responds very well to a higher daily dose radiation delivered precisely and with expertise,’ says UCLA Health's Dr. Amar U. Kishan

Equipment with a built-in MRI allows doctors to better see internal anatomy

Dr. John Timmerman and Dr. Sarah Larson answer questions about CAR T cell therapy