Palliative Care

Practical Radiation Oncology

PRO 05 - Patient Guided Radiotherapy: Tools to Help Providers Support Patients when the "Right Choice" Isn't Always Clear

Moderator(s)

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  Joshua Jones, MD

  Rochester Regional Health System
  Rochester, NY, United States

When patients are frail, older, have comorbidities or have a poor performance status, providing recommendations about the most appropriate radiotherapy regimen (or hospice) can be complicated. When is a long-course of radiotherapy most appropriate? Short-course palliative radiotherapy? SBRT? Hospice care without radiotherapy? This session will give providers concrete tools to take back to clinic with a framework for thinking about shared decision making with patients/families.
1. Determining intent of radiotherapy: When are we in radical/curative mode? Purely palliative mode? Disease modifying mode (i.e., to alter disease course without cure)?
2. Patient centered conversations about goals: how to discuss what is important to tailor radiotherapy to the individual?
3. Case studies with audience participation to explore these tools.

Presentations:

• 2:15 PM – 2:17 PM ET

  Introductions
  

  Speaker: Joshua Jones, MD – Rochester Regional Health System
• 2:17 PM – 2:47 PM ET

  Goals of Care Conversations for the Radiation Oncologist
  

  Speaker: Emily Martin, MD – University of California Los Angeles
• 2:47 PM – 3:17 PM ET

  Defining Radiotherapy Intent
  

  Speaker: Joshua Jones, MD – Rochester Regional Health System
• 3:17 PM – 3:30 PM ET

  Questions and Answers
  

  Speaker: Joshua Jones, MD – Rochester Regional Health System