Rayos Contra Cancer

🚨New publication alert! Can remote training level the playing field in radiation oncology? Inspiring work by @CancerRayos shows it can! Read more here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lAb7cA0-MUA7 #radiotherapy @WomanPhysicist

RCC is thrilled to complete its Head & Neck Cancer contouring training program in Latin America, its third time running the program and first time in the region. Congratulations to the hundreds of successful radiation oncologist participants in LATAM! Thanks to the @Elekta_Fdn !

@BenLiMD @Elekta_Fdn @LacyHubbard2022 And thank you to our inspiring moderators, Sharareh Koufigar, Agnes Ewongwo, and Caroline Colbert!

Today, RCC is thrilled to complete it's newest pilot training program on "Transforming Your Center: Documents for Daily Use". This effort was thanks to countless hours by dedicated volunteers and in-country leaders in Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, and Cameroon. #ImprovingCancerCare!🤞

@BenLiMD @Elekta_Fdn @LacyHubbard2022 Thank you to the Elekta Foundation for believing in us and sharing our vision and mission. Thank you to our amazing educators, Luis Fong de los Santos, Mustefa Said, Haitham Shaheen, Cesar Della Biancia, Adam Shulman, Soha Ahmed, Claire Dempsey, Eric Ford.

Honored to have @BobTimmermanMD join us to share pearls about lung SBRT. Together, including @BenLiMD and the 500+ radiation oncologists and medical physicists who participated live, we are elevating care globally! 🤞 #MedEd #GlobalHealth #radonc

The @Elekta_Fdn and Rayos Contra Cancer offer a course on IMRT for Radiation Therapists/Technologists (RTTs) who work in LICs. The course includes 14 live sessions in English, is vendor-neutral and free. Enroll here: bit.ly/Enrollment_IMR… #closethegap

Thank you to everyone who has supported our work and our mission over the past several years. We’ve come a long way. And - we’re just getting started. ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.12… #reimagine #educationsaveslives #globaloncology

We invite you to read our latest article- learn more about the gaps and how medical students can help advance the mission! tinyurl.com/y3u9espb @ProjectECHO @AmerMedicalAssn #RayosContraCancer #RCC

Thanks @AmerMedicalAssn for highlighting the importance of the @ProjectECHO model for the future of #telehealth. We are proud to be a part of the ECHO community. bit.ly/2WOkKMq @mHealthIntel #RuralHealth #MovingKnowledgeNotPeople

@ajkihn Thank you Dra. Kihn! It was fantastic meeting you and the department at INCAN! #INCAN

Rayos Contra Cáncer arrived to our institution and I felt very honored to hear about their project in Global Health or better said Global Oncology.

Our mission is to create sustainable access to timely, high-quality, and affordable radiation treatment for cancer in limited-resource settings globally. #Cancer #radiation #Innovations #healthcare

A $10 million gift from alumna Jennifer R. Frist, BS’93, and husband William R. “Billy” Frist will endow a new center focused on supporting and developing the neurodiverse talents of individuals with #autism at @VUEngineering. vanderbi.lt/19ka8

How can patients with cancer get help quitting tobacco? This short video on NCI's Cancer Center Cessation Initiative explains: youtube.com/watch?v=mH_Lot… #TobaccoControl

A helpful & productive mantra for life..... there is no learning without teaching, and no teaching without learning. Strive to have dual identities as both learner & teacher.

Thrilled to see Dr. Ben Li, a @VUmedicine grad, during his visit back to Nashville 2017-- Ben pitched his concept to provide radiation therapy in low resource settings at the @VUMCradiology #RadX PowerPitch competition 2018-- Ben founded his non-profit @CancerRayos #WayToGo!

Atul Gawande to keynote HIMSS19 shar.es/a1JlBg via @HealthITNews

Team’s potential lung cancer therapy lands award from SBIR news.vumc.org/2018/09/27/tea… via @vumchealth

Cancer Moonshot award to help map tumor progression vanderbi.lt/wjisp via @VanderbiltU

Healthcare poetsandquants.com/2018/09/25/hea… via @PoetsAndQuants