PRESENTATION TITLE
Radiotherapy for Urological Cancers:  Creating Opportunities from Challenges

PRESENTER(S)
Vedang Murthy, MBBS, M.D., DNB, Dip.EPP
Officer in charge in Radiation Oncology, Professor and Consultant Radiation Oncology, ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India

PRESENTER BIO

Vedang Murthy, MD, DNB, DipEPP, is a Professor and Radiation Oncologist at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, a premier oncology centre in Asia. Dr Murthy's area of expertise is in Urological Cancer. He has special interest in high precision radiotherapy procedures such as Image Guided Radiotherapy and Adaptive Radiotherapy. Dr. Murthy did his training (MD and DNB) in the field of Radiation Oncology from Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai in 2002 before going to the United Kingdom where he worked at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Hospital, London for a period of 4 years in the Academic Radiotherapy Unit. He also undertook a Diploma in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the London School of Health and Tropical Medicine. He has over 80 publications in peer reviewed international journals.

Dr. Murthy is currently running several investigators initiated clinical trials including randomized controlled trials in prostate and bladder cancer and is a part of international co-operative groups in GU Oncology. The main areas of interest within GU oncology are high risk prostate cancer, SBRT for prostate and kidney cancer, oligometastatic prostate cancer, bladder preservation and adjuvant radiotherapy in bladder cancer.

VIEWING LOCATIONS
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify the challenges of treatment of locally advanced prostate cancer with radiotherapy.
• Demonstrate implementation of SBRT in advanced prostate cancer.
• Describe evolution of radiotherapy technology for bladder preservation.
• List evidence for adjuvant radiotherapy in bladder cancer.

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