#126 Radiation Oncology Part 1: 5 Pearls Segment

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Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What are the different types of radiation? What should we and shouldn’t we put in our one-liners? What makes palliative radiation different from curative radiation? And when to refer to for palliative radiation?

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Whiteboard Animation Video of Radiation Physiology

Time Stamps

02:04 What is radiation?
03:17 How does radiation therapy work?
04:50 How is today’s radiation different from the past?
05:40 What role does radiation play in cancer treatment?
07:48 What are the different types of radiation?
15:34 How do you write a rad onc one-liner as an internist?
19:59 What is palliative radiation and how/when should we use it?

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0:00.0	A lot of patients and sometimes providers come in with misconceptions about how
0:04.3	radiation works, what side effects patients may experience, whether patients are
0:07.5	going to be radioactive. I spend the majority actually of my time counseling
0:11.8	patients in the first consultation to hopefully dispel any of these myths and misconceptions.
0:17.0	That's Dr. Matthew Aarums, a radiation oncologist at the IDMC and we'll aim to do some myth busting for this episode for ourselves and for our patients.
0:26.0	Welcome to the Five Pearls Podcast bringing you high yield evidence-based pearls. Today we're going to dive deep into a topic that I think is a blind spot for many
0:34.0	of us. Radiation oncology. And this episode was largely inspired by Dr. Sam Kumar-Sana.
0:40.6	Hi everybody, I'm Sam.
0:42.6	I'm a second year resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
0:45.8	And I guess since this topic is a whole field,
0:48.2	we did split this episode into two different parts.
0:51.0	So today we're going to cover the first three pearls and
0:53.2	really set the foundation for radiation oncology. Yep that's two for the price of
0:57.1	one. Next Wednesday we'll publish part two which will get into all things
1:00.3	side effects related. Yes and also look out for a short YouTube
1:03.8	whiteboard animation that Sam created explains interesting physiology of
1:07.5	radiation. I'm gonna toot my own horn here a little bit it's worth a watch for
1:11.4	sure. Yeah and with that let's get started on the episode
1:15.0	quiz yourself on the following purls remember the more you test yourself the deeper your
1:18.8	learning games Pearl 1 intro Intro to Radiation.
1:23.0	What is radiation and how does it work?
1:26.0	Pearl 2 types of radiation.
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