Radiation Medicine Program

Today, the #GC announced the results of: ✅ Canada Research Chairs 2025-1 ✅ New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration 2025 Learn more: canada.ca/en/research-ch… #CRC #NFRF

Last week, @PMCancerCentre with @SickKidsCancer and @SinaiHealth, hosted the 20th International p53 Workshop. Thanks to the organizing team and co-chairs Drs. David Malkin, Daniel Schramek, and @DKirschMDPhD for making this event a huge success!

At #CCTG2026 last night Dr. Jelena Lukovic was awarded the Ralph Meyer Phase III Young Investigator Award. Dr. Lukovic is the Canadian PI for the international ES3 NEEDS trial evaluating definitive chemoradiotherapy for squamous cell esophageal cancer.

You'll recognize a few names on this author list! @AgrawalAmiya @CJTsaiMDPhD & team show us that palliative RT is undergoing a major evolution ⚡️—from symptom relief ➡️ a multidisciplinary, precision-driven discipline with a dedicated workflow! What’s changing? 🧠 Team-based care is central: #radonc + physicists + advanced practice RTTs + NPs + supportive care = more personalized, efficient & safer treatment decisions ⏱️ Rapid-access clinics ✔️ Referrals seen within ~24 hrs ✔️ “One-stop” visits: consult + simulation same day ✔️ Fast-track pathways deliver RT within hours for pain crises 🚀 Workflow innovation ✔️ Simulation-free RT using recent diagnostic CTs ✔️ Single-fraction treatments (8–20 Gy) ✔️ Fewer hospital visits + faster symptom relief 🎯 Better technology = better care ✔️ IMRT/VMAT + SBRT improve conformality ✔️ Reduce toxicity to normal tissues ✔️ Enable safer re-irradiation & hypofractionation 👩‍⚕️ Advanced providers expand capacity ✔️ pAPRTs: contouring, planning, workflow leadership ✔️ NPs: toxicity management, follow-up, continuity ✔️ Earlier detection of complications + improved experience 🔬 Not just care—innovation hub ✔️ Trials reducing skeletal events with prophylactic RT ✔️ Survival gains (e.g., proton CSI in leptomeningeal disease) 🚨Bottom line: Palliative RT is no longer just supportive care—it’s fast, adaptive, multidisciplinary, and increasingly impactful on outcomes and quality of life 💡 @ASTRO_org advancesradonc.org/article/S2452-…

🗣️ Debate at #ESTRO26: Does online adaptive radiotherapy require a major overhaul of RTT education? 📅 May 16 | 15:15–16:30 📍 A12 | RTT Track Join us for an engaging discussion at #ESTRO26 for this debate! Full rethink or smart adaptation? 👇 bit.ly/4cE6aQI

Congratulations to @RadMedPM’s Dr. Rebecca Wong on receiving the 2026 CARO Gold Medal/Gordon Richards Lecture Award—one of the highest honours in Canadian radiation oncology. A visionary leader shaping care, research & education in Canada and beyond. 👏 #RadOnc #CARO #Leadership