The Accelerators Podcast

“Market Forces”: Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer Around the Globe, Part 1

February 23, 2023 The Accelerators Season 2 Episode 16
The Accelerators Podcast
“Market Forces”: Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer Around the Globe, Part 1
Show Notes

The Accelerators (Drs. Anna Brown, Matt Spraker, and Simul Parikh) have gone global!

We host Drs. Alison Tree (The Royal Marsden NHS, UK), Vedang Murthy (Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai, India), and Himanshu Nagar (New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell and Brooklyn Methodist, NYC) for a two-part exploration of prostate cancer care around the world!

In part 1, we discuss PSA screening, costs of care, selection of radiotherapy treatment techniques and androgen deprivation therapies, and the radiotherapy research efforts of the UK, India, and the US. 

Podcast art generously donated by Dr. Danielle Cunningham. Intro and Outro music generously donated by Emmy-award winning artist Lucas Cantor Santiago.

The Accelerators Podcast is a Photon Media production.