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WCIO kicked off its 2014 season of VuMedi webinars yesterday with the first of three programs devoted to percutaneous tumor ablation. This session focused on lung ablation. Over 85 registrants from North America, South America, and Asia participated live. I was excited to see friends from Brazil and

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WCIO is thrilled to be part of the first scientific congress of the Pan Arab IR Society in Dubai. An entire day of the PAIRS Congress program is devoted to interventional oncology and prostate embolization....

The Fountainbleu provided a nice compact venue for the vendors in the foyer outside a single plenary hall. Shaun Samuels’ team with guest program directors Fred Lee from Wisconsin and Bob Lewandowski from Northwestern did a great job assembling a rapid-fire program of clinical updates, tumor boards,...

I just finished reviewing my assigned batch of the hundreds of abstracts submitted to WCIO for our 10th annual scientific meeting in New York May 11-14, and what an exciting bunch they were!  The amount of innovation in the field of IO is astounding....

@WCIO produced its second liver webinar with VuMedi this week. Over 200 registrants from every continent (and Fiji!) logged on for presentations and discussion about radioembolization. 

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RSNA deserves tremendous credit for putting on such a fabulous program. As an incubator for future clinical researchers, it is amazing to watch the action. While the student junior faculty work to assemble coherent protocols, they are surrounded by the top academic experts in the country......

Billboards and busses in Philadelphia abound with Blue Cross’ current Live Fearless campaign, most featuring healthy-looking young people engaged in vigorous activities. “Live in Fear” would be a better tagline for Blue Cross patients with liver metastases, as two of my recent patients discovered......

RSNA’s intensive workshop on clinical trial design kicked off last night. Nine of the 29 “students” are interventional radiologists, up from only one last year. After the morning didactic sessions, we break up into five small working groups to intensively develop each student’s protocol proposal....

The start of a new year is a great time to look back and forwards. WCIO made the leap from a freestanding annual scientific congress to become the world community for IO in 2010. We quickly launched IO Central, the global on-line open-membership forum for IO......

In essence, he has thrown down the gauntlet: can IO’s run a successful cooperative group trial of image-guided therapy? This is an historic opportunity--- for the first time, interventionalists are running an NCI cooperative group trial.

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