The Accelerators Podcast

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Oncology News and Views from Photon Media. For more info, please visit photonmedia.org.

Publisher

The Accelerators

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Aug 2021

Latest episode

14 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 97 episodes have a transcript.

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   14 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Camron Tharp's TAP Journal Club: The Bart Trial

   Send us Fan Mail TAP kicks off a journal club format by dissecting the phase III BART trial on adjuvant radiation therapy after radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Cam Tharp, MS hosts radiation oncologists Drs. Comron Hassanzadeh and Stephanie Dudzinski to led discussion of this important trial. The Accelerators Podcast is a Photon Media production. For more from Matt, visit his website. For more from Simul, visit his blog, Radiation Medicine: Dollars and Sense.

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   5 Feb 2026

   “Keyboard Warrior”: In Conversation With Dr. Riccardo Bertolo

   Send us a text Accelerator Dr. Simul Parikh hosts urologist Dr. Riccardo Bertolo, MD, PhD, first author of a recent article on late toxicities of radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Real-World Burden and Management of Late Genitourinary Toxicity After Prostate Radiotherapy: Insights from IRRADIaTE, the Italian Registry of Radiotherapy-Associated Disorders and Urological Treatment & Evaluation Online discussion about this article was... divisive. Simul and Riccardo discuss the motivati...

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   3 Feb 2026

   “The Bougie Is Necessary”: Intro to Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT), Part 2

   Send us a text Accelerator Dr. Matt Spraker hosts Drs. Ana Kiess, Brandon Mancini, and Dustin Boothe to review radiopharmaceutical therapies (RPTs), aka theranostics. In part 2 of our RPT mini-series, Ana, Brandon, and Dustin share some of their experience with the practical aspects of launching a RPT program. We discuss collaborating with administrators to launch a program and required clinic space to deliver these therapies. General tips the clinical management of patients under...

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Camron Tharp's TAP Journal Club: The Bart Trial

Published 14 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So if you have anybody that you know with bladder cancer, the majority of those patients actually have non-muscle invasive, which is not really what we're going to be talking about today. But for muscle invasive, about a third of patients who are diagnosed with bladder cancer have urethelial, typically cancer invading to the muscular layer of the bladder. Those patients have two options for kind of the modern day literature. And I think you cited it really nice in Cam. One is neoadjuvant therapy. It could be chemo, but nowadays we're doing a lot of other things, followed by cystectomy, and that's many times with pelvic length of dissection, or bladder preservation therapy, and that is with chemoradiation, usually followed by some type of adjuvant therapies. […]

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