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2011 Spring Refresher Course

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Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Track : April 9, 2011

Program Code: 170

Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EST

Duration: 90 Minutes

Location: Sheraton Ballroom 1-3

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Thomas Delaney, M.D., Medical Directory, F. H. Burr Proton Therapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

I am currently the Medical Director of the Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston. I am also the Co-Director of the Sarcoma Center at the hospital, and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School. My primary areas of clinical and research interest include bone and soft tissue sarcomas and charged-particle (proton) radiation therapy. I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, in the metropolitan New York City area. I obtained my B.A. degree in history at Harvard College in 1978 and my medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1982. After completing an internship at the Yale-New Haven Hospital in general surgery, I completed three years of residency training at MGH in Radiation Oncology, completing training in 1986. I then spent six years as a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda MD, where I participated in studies evaluating the treatment of adult and pediatric sarcomas and translational research in photodynamic therapy with light-activated dyes. I returned to Boston in 1992 to become Chief of Radiation Oncology at Boston University Medical Center, where I also established a joint Radiation Oncology residency program in conjunction with MGH. I returned to MGH to head the Sarcoma Service in the Department of Radiation Oncology in 2000, and became medical director of the Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center in 2001. Hanne Kooy, Ph.D. and I are editors of the book Proton and Heavier Charged Particle Radiotherapy (Lippincott, 2007). I am on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and the Journal of Surgical Oncology. I am principal investigator of an NCI-funded program project grant, Optimizing Proton Radiation Therapy. My interests outside of work include family (wife Linda, sons Alec, 16 and Ian, 13), tennis and ice hockey, jogging, and the alto saxophone.

Description

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the clinical presentation and natural history of soft tissue sarcomas.

2. Discuss rhe role of radiation therapy in the management of soft tissue sarcomas.

3. Discuss radiation therapy techniques for treatment of soft tissue sarcomas.

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