WEBINAR: Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumors

This educational webinar will describe different radiation treatments for malignant and non-malignant (benign) brain tumors. Topics covered will include how radiation therapy works, the patient experience during treatment, and the risks and benefits of radiation therapy. Following this presentation will be a Q&A session with Dr. Lawrence Kleinberg, Radiation Oncologist and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

0:00 Introduction & Overview
4:49 Radiation Usually Produced by a "Linear Accelerator"
6:15 Radiation Affects Normal Body Structures Too
7:09 How Does Radiation Work? Radiation Injures DNA of Cells
9:36 Disadvantages of Radiation
11:23 Radiation Side Effects Related to Where Beam is Aimed
17:52 Aiming Radiation
18:26 Technologies To Aim Radiation
19:34 Intensity-Modulated Radiation
21:48 Radiotherapy Targeting Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy
22:17 Proton Therapy May Protect Normal Tissues Under Certain Circumstances Radiation Beam Does Not Fully Penetrate Body
29:17 WARNING
31:15 Radiation with Temozolomide Adding Drugs to Build on Radiation
31:50 Electronic Tumor Treating Fields Another step towards Improved outcome?
32:56 Stereotactic Radiosurgery Usually 1-5 precision intense treatments Differs from polonged fractionated Radiation
34:05 Gamma Knife
34:36 CyberKnife
35:19 Meningioma
35:43 Spread of Cancer to Brain Long-Term Survival More and More Common Now
36:49 Example: Long-Term Survival More Common with New Systemic Drugs 54-year-old female 2013: Adenocarcinoma of lung, brain metastasis
38:43 2017: 3 More Lesions
39:40 After Radiation Treatments
43:15 Radiation to Add to Immune Response Animal testing: GBM
44:31 Whole Brain 3D Spectroscopic "Chemical" MRI