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ASTRO Meeting Presentations

2012 ASTRO Annual Meeting

This year’s meeting will be held on October 28-31, 2012 in Boston (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center).

ASTRO Abstracts

  1. Dosimetric Validation of Respiratory Motion Margins for Patients with Pancreatic Cancer Using Deformable 4D Contour Propagation
    X. Yang, A. S. Reese, Y. D. Mutaf, K. L. Prado, N. K. Sharma, S. J. Feigenberg, W. F. Regine, and B. Yi, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  2. Deformable Image Registration as a Method to Assess Motion for Pancreatic Cancer using 4D Computed Tomography (CT) Scans
    A. S. Reese, X. Yang, W. Lu, N. K. Sharma, S. J. Feigenberg, W. F. Regine, B. Yi, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  3. Dose Reduction of Rectum and Bladder Utilizing an Adaptive Strategy and Dual-Plan Superposition When Treating Pelvic Lymph Nodes and Prostate With IMRT
    C.G. Schinkel, M. Rutenberg, C. Bui, P. Amin, C. Yu, K. Prado, B. Yi, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  4. Validation of high-resolution multi-modality imaging of pre-treatment lung function in pulmonary neoplasms
    Author block: T. Diwanji1, S. Pokharel2, S. Feigenberg1, W. D'Souza1, N. Mistry1
    1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    2Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
    Abstract category: R-06 Novel treatment delivery techniques
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  5. Radiobiological Modeling Based on FDG PET Data for Esophageal Cancer
    M. Guerrero, S. Tan, W. Lu
    University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
    Selected for presentation in an ORAL Scientific Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting, Oct.
     
  6. Near 25% Complete Pathologic Response Following Preoperative Accelerated Partial Breast Radiotherapy (apbi) Using 3 Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy (3D CRT)
    S. J. Feigenberg, P. Staats, W. Citron, C. Drogula, R. Cohen, S. Kesmodel, E. Bellavance, S. Chumsri, K. Tkaczuk, W. Regine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  7. Can Breast MRI Select Patients For Treatment With Pre-operative APBI?
    Awan, M.1, Bellavance, E. 2, Kesmodel, S. 2, Ioffe, O.3, Campassi, C.4, Tkaczuk, K.5, Chumsari, S.5, Bao, T.5, Feigenberg, S.1
    1Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland Baltimore
    2Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland Baltimore
    3Department of Pathology, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland Baltimore
    4Department of Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland Baltimore
    5Department of Medical Oncology, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland Baltimore
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  8. Trimodality therapy for stage III lung cancer: Predictors of surgical drop out: The University of Maryland Experience.
    Liriano M, Nichols EM, Morris C.G., Burrows W., Battafarano R., Garofalo M., Feliciano J., Turner M., Suntha M., Edelman M., Feigenberg S.J.
    **Selected for presentation in the Poster Viewing Session during the 2012 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology, September 6-8, 2012
    **Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  9. Marital status predictors for poor outcomes in patients with Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: The University of Maryland Experience.
    Nicholas E.M., Liriano M., Morris C.G., Burrows W., Battafarano R., Garofalo M., Feliciano J., Turner M., Suntha M., Edelman M., Feigenberg S.J.
    **Selected for presentation in the Poster Viewing Session during the 2012 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology, September 6-8, 2012
    **Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  10. Salivary Preservation using Submandibular Gland Transfer and Salivary Gland Sparing IMRT in Definitive Chemoradiotherapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer
    Michael Rutenberg M.D.,Ph.D., Marietta Tan M.D., Patrick Ha M.D., Eva Zinreich M.D., John Saunders Jr. M.D., Ray Blanco M.D., Marshall Levine M.D., Barbara Messing M.A. CCC-SLP, BRS-S, Geoffrey Neuner M.D.
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  11. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) using Tomotherapy for Early Stage NSCLC: the utility of mid fraction CT scans to assess intra-fraction tumor motion.
    D. Hunter Boggs M.D., Steven Feigenberg M.D., Robert Walter M.D., Terry Wu Ph.D., Bijal Patel, Dennis Wissing Ph.D., Lane Rosen M.D.
    *Selected for presentation in the Poster Viewing Session during the 2012 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology, September 6-8, 2012
    *Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  12. Evaluation of the use of carbon-11 Methionine PET Scans in Pediatric Patients with Craniopharyngioma
    B. Laser1, B. Shulkin2, D. J. Indelicato3, T. E. Merchant2
    1University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
    2St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
    3University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, Jacksonville, FL
    Selected for presentation in an ORAL Scientific Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  13. Liposome-based Nanoprobe with Antibody Conjugation Combined with MRI Contrast Encapsulation as a Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agent for Human Head and Neck Cancer Cells
    Yuan-Chia Kuo1, Chiwei Hung3, Srinivasa R. Raghavan1,2, Warren D. D'Souza1,3
    1Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2111
    2Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2111
    3Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  14. Pre-Chemoradiotherapy FDG PET/CT Can Not Identify Residual Metabolically Active areas in Patients with Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer
    Author Block: W. Lu1, S. Tan2, G. Kim1, S. Feigenberg1, H. Zhang1, S. Kligerman1, W. Chen1, W. D'Souza1, M. Suntharalingam1
    1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    2Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  15. Improved Survival with Adjuvant Radiation in Elderly Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer
    R. J. Cohen1, L. Li2, W. Citron1, M. Oh1, C. Drogula1, S. Cheston1, C. Bui1, S. J. Feigenberg1
    1University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
    2Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, PA
    Selected for presentation in an ORAL Scientific Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
     
  16. Preoperative Accelerated Partial Breast Radiation Is Associated With Decreased Cd8+ Cells In Patients With Early Breast Cancer
    Presenter: Eric Christenson
    Author block: S. J. Feigenberg1, E. Christenson2, P. Staats3, T. Webb4, S. Chumsri5, K. Tkaczuk3, E. Nichols4, S. Kesmodel1, E. Bellavance4, W. Regine4
    1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    2Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
    3University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    4University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    5University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    Selected for presentation in a Poster Session during the ASTRO 2012 Annual Meeting.
    Abstract category: A-01 Breast