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In part two of this prostate cancer series, Dr. Christian Okoye and Dr. Anesa Ahamad explain what patients can expect once radiation treatment begins. Topics include the wait between simulation and the first session, daily logistics, activities to maintain during treatment and common short- and long-term urinary, GI and sexual side effects. Listeners also hear about life after treatment and survivorship.

Radiation oncologists Dr. Christian Okoye and Dr. Anesa Ahamad discuss prostate cancer radiation therapy, covering consultation, PSA testing, and staging. Options include active surveillance, surgery, external beam radiation, brachytherapy, and SBRT—often delivered in just five sessions with cure rates rivaling surgery. High-risk patients add hormone therapy. MRI planning, rectal spacers, and molecular testing refine treatment for the best outcomes.

In this episode of the OnTarget podcast, radiation oncologists Anesa Ahamad, MD and Avinash Chaurasia, MD address frequently asked patient questions about radiation therapy. Topics include what radiation oncologists do, how radiation works, when radiation is used to cure cancer or relieve symptoms, common side effects, treatment safety, and how response to therapy is monitored. The discussion is designed to provide clear, patient-friendly education.

In this episode, Leah Katz, MD and Shalina Burt, MD host Harvey Mamon, MD to provide a broad overview of the use of radiation therapy to treat rectal. We will cover broad paradigms of treatment for treatment and the choices available to patients. We review the logistics of radiation therapy, how radiation is integrated with other cancer treatment modalities, different radiation techniques, and side effects of treatment.

In this episode, radiation oncologists Malcolm Mattes, MD, from Rutgers University, and Amishi Bajaj, MD, from Duly Health and Care, provide a broad overview of the use of radiation therapy to treat breast cancer. They cover logistics of radiation therapy, how radiation is integrated with other breast cancer treatment modalities, different radiation techniques and side effects of treatment.

In this episode, radiation oncologists Malcolm Mattes, MD, from Rutgers Cancer Institute, and Skylar Johnson, MD, from University of Utah, provide an overview of alternative, complementary and integrative therapies in the context of cancer treatment. They discuss examples of each and when they can be considered for use alongside conventional cancer treatments, as well as what patients should do before proceeding with a complementary therapy.

In this episode, radiation oncologists Niema Razavian, MD, from Moffit Cancer Center and Ryan Hughes, MD, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, discuss side effects of radiation therapy for head and neck cancers, when these side effects start and how long they last, and how patients can work with their treatment team to combat the side effects.

In this episode, radiation oncologists Sameer Keole, MD, FASTRO, and Niema Razavian, MD, discuss logistics of radiation therapy. They begin with a quick overview of radiation therapy including the different types of radiation therapy, terms you may hear during your treatment and what you can expect once you and your radiation oncologist agree to treat your cancer with radiation therapy. Afterward, they will walk you through the logistics of your pretreatment planning, day-to-day treatment and introduce you to the members of the radiation oncology treatment team.

This podcast walks you through what to expect if you and your doctor choose radiation therapy to treat your gynecologic cancer. You will learn what the pretreatment planning and treatment process looks like, including external beam radiation and brachytherapy.

This podcast walks you through what to expect if you and your doctor choose to treat your upper GI cancer, including cancers of the esophagus, stomach, liver and pancreas, with radiation therapy. You will learn about how radiation therapy is used to treat upper GI cancers and what the pretreatment planning and treatment process looks like.

This podcast walks you through what to expect if you and your doctor choose to treat your brain tumor with radiation therapy. You will learn about how radiation therapy is used to treat brain tumors and what the pretreatment planning and treatment process looks like.

This podcast walks you through what to expect if you and your doctor choose radiation therapy to treat your head and neck cancer. You will receive an overview of the pretreatment planning and treatment process with explanations of everything involved.