Ray Shao (@_RayShao) profile picture

Radiation Oncology Resident at UTSW

Joined October 2020
Nice to see RCT of RT for gallbladder ca. Results not surprising that adjuvant chemoRT did not have better DFS/OS v chemo, given most gallbladder tumors recur distantly plus ~95% had R0 resection. Findings mostly support current practices of offering chemoRT only for +margins.
📢Adjuvant GemCis vs CRT with capecitabine in gallbladder cancer GECCOR-GB study @JAMAOnc ➡️Phase II ➡️Resected stage II/III, R0 or R1 ✅1-year DFS: %88.9 vs 77.8% ✅2-year DFS: 74.8% vs 74.8% ✅Completion of planned trratment: 82% vs 62% ✅Both met primary endpoint of 1-y DFS 77% 👉doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.1944 @JAMA_current @curecc @CCA_Alliance @CholangioNet @PrecisionBTCnet #cancer #oncology #biliary #MedX
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What imaging do you use to follow anal cancer patients s/p chemoRT? We do: PET at 10-12 weeks & if still uptake, another ~3 mo later. Once normalized, CT CAP q6-12 mo. But this isn't consistent w NCCN guidelines – which recommends no f/u PET, no short-term imaging at all.
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RT @NiuSanford: Nice paper. I find treatment of lymph nodes challenging in rectal cancer. In OCUM study, MRI accuracy for predicting LN in…
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Appreciate the critique & counterpoint to our editorial here. Although it seems the authors agreed w @BobTimmermanMD & me on most points (but then said we were wrong 😀). Thanks to @IJROBP for facilitating the dialogue. redjournal.org/article/S0360…
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Incredible RCT w 118 patients receiving sham RT.
‼️ Impressive RCT showing reduction of ranibizumab treatment burden & cost using SBRT to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Stereotactic radiotherapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (STAR) - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance… @xrtGenomics @seanmmcbride @JingLi_MD_PhD @Dan_ChangMD
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In this week's @JAMA_current, my husband @EthanLSanford writes about the deaths of our daughter Ceci and his patient Terry. About how grief has informed his practicing of medicine and living a fuller life. Please read about our girl and share. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Curious others thoughts on this take @SuyogCancer @DocCatenacci
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ESOPEC: some initial thoughts. As predicted, FLOT beat out CROSS – not surprising given pitching best systemic agents x 4 mo against weaker radiosensitizing chemotherapy over 5 weeks, in a disease site with high rate distant recurrence. 1/6 #ASCO24
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