Social Champions, Curate your ASTRO 2025 experience, World Radiation Therapy Awareness Day

August 27, 2025

Provide a window into ASTRO 2025 and volunteer as an #ASTRO25 Social Champion

Are you active on X or Instagram? ASTRO seeks volunteers to be Social Champions during the 2025 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Social Champions share their experiences from the science, education and social events at the meeting. Help others stay connected and informed about the meeting. Interested? It's fun and a great way to meet new friends! Applications are due this Friday, August 29.

Curate your ASTRO 2025 experience now

Explore curated Annual Meeting programming for the following interests and/or career levels: Residents, Early Career, Health Care Access and Community Engagement, International, Medical Students, Medical Physicists and First-time Attendees. Our Journey Maps offer suggested sessions to help you plan out your day to make the most of your time at ASTRO 2025!

Spotlight on the Radiopharmaceuticals Workshop

On Saturday, September 27, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pacific time, the Radiopharmaceuticals Workshop will be held, with a focus on “Moving Beyond the Basics: Implementation of a Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Program.” The workshop will cover information on clinical indications, difficult cases, medical physics considerations, development of standard operating procedures for clinical implementation, billing and safe theranostic delivery practices. Increase your understanding about how to effectively and safely conduct an RPT program at your institution. The workshop is free for students, residents, fellows and patient advocates and $150 for other meeting registrants.

A sneak peek at the sessions presented at this year’s Annual Meeting

The scientific program includes 2,000 abstracts presented in a variety of formats including Science Highlights, Oral and Quick Pitch sessions. More than 1,750 posters covering cutting-edge research in all the major disease sites will be available in the Poster Hall and online. Presenters in both science and education sessions are invited to record a short video to offer a preview their session. Watch a preview from these presenters to learn more about their ASTRO 2025 presentations.

 

New ASTRO Academy Course on oligometastatic prostate cancer

Learn from a panel of experts in the field of GU malignancies on how to personalize treatment recommendations based on imaging, pathology and clinical findings for patients with oligometastatic prostate disease. Directed and moderated by Shalini Moningi, MD, Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Patient Care is now available in the ASTRO Academy. To learn more about prostate radiotherapy from Dr. Moningi, don’t miss SS 16 – GU 4: Quality of Life Outcomes after Prostate Radiotherapy during the 2025 ASTRO Annual Meeting.

 

Deadline extended! Residents, apply for the 2026 Government Relations Fellowship

Are you a radiation oncology resident interested in congressional advocacy and government relations? If so, ASTRO’s Government Relations (GR) Fellow program is for you! The GR Fellow will participate in advocacy meetings, including meetings with members of Congress or their staff. The GR Fellow will also receive an Emerging Advocacy Grassroots Leader award for travel to Advocacy Day. Apply by September 1.

 

Mark the date: September 7 World Radiation Therapy Awareness Day

ASTRO is proud to be a supporter and planning member for the first annual World Radiation Therapy Awareness Day (WRAD). WRAD is a day dedicated to uniting the global community and highlighting the essential role of radiation therapy to treat cancers, relieve symptoms and improve patient's quality of life. September 7 was chosen as it was the date the first patient was treated on a linear accelerator in 1953. Follow WRAD on social and download WRAD logos and support messages to share with your community.