One of my favorite patients died this month. I first met him in January, 2008 when he was diagnosed with liver cancer. He was a 60-year-old martial arts and music instructor, a seriously cool dude who always showed up in rimless sunglasses with his grey hair tied back in a neat queue.
The World Conference on Interventional Oncology has bolstered my growing passion for interventional oncology and interventional radiology as a whole. As a radiology resident about to enter fellowship, I am looking forward to an exciting career in the ever evolving field of interventional oncology.
Thanks to the generosity of several industry sponsors, I was among a large group of fellows who attended the 2012 World Conference on Interventional Oncology in Chicago. This meeting assembled interventional oncology thought leaders from around the globe...
The majority of medical oncologists said that no interventional oncologist participated in their tumor board, and that they did not know anyone who offered image-guided cancer therapy.
Tumor Boards are among the most exciting and popular sessions at the WCIO Annual Scientific Meeting. During the WCIO 2012 HCC tumor board, program chair Riad Salem, MD MBA presented a series of increasingly complex cases to an international multidisciplinary panel of experts. The final case was...
