Countdown to ASTRO 2026 | Registration open for 2027 H&N Symposium | WRAD 2026

🏨 Housing deadline is TOMORROW
Act now! The deadline to reserve your hotel room in the official ASTRO 2026 block is tomorrow, September 3! Reservations received after the cutoff will be processed on a space-available basis and may be subject to higher rates.

📖 Annual Meeting Guide out now
Explore the Annual Meeting Guide online today. Keep an eye out for the print version, which should land in your mailboxes soon.

📌 Hands-on learning opportunities in Boston
Enhance your Annual Meeting experience with interactive learning:

• Brachytherapy Workshop: A dedicated session for residents (ARRO 01 and ARRO 02) will cover prostate and GYN treatments, followed by a session for nonresidents (Workshop 03 and 04), focused on prostate treatment only. Both didactic sessions will be followed with hands-on demonstrations with six vendors.
• Radiopharmaceutical Therapy: Two sessions (a general session and one for residents only) will offer interactive, small-group experiences with expert-led demonstrations and opportunities to engage directly with RPT clinicians and equipment.

💬 Build your network at Speed Mentoring Sessions
Speed Mentoring is back! Don’t miss this opportunity for mentees to connect directly with leading experts across the field. Come with your questions ready!

📕 Annual Meeting embargo reminder
Quick reminder that all abstracts to be presented at the ASTRO Annual Meeting are embargoed from public release until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, September 25. The embargo for all posters at the meeting will also lift at that time. For oral presentations, additional results are embargoed until presentation time. While ASTRO members receive advance access to abstracts in their Red Journal proceedings as a member benefit, these abstracts are not intended for public distribution before the embargo lifts, and we ask that you not share them or their content while under embargo. Authors are responsible for notifying financial and other sponsors about the embargo policy, which is also available online. Embargo violations by authors and/or sponsors may result in removal from the scientific program. Please send any questions about the embargo policy to ASTRO’s media relations team.

➡️ View H&N submission details and submit your abstract

➡️ View RPT submission details and submit your abstract

Bonus: Use code SUMMER26 at checkout to save 26% on all ASTRO Academy courses through September 7!

Additionally, ASTRO is seeking comments on the draft Ethics-based Resource for Informed Consent in Radiation Oncology. This resource is intended to provide a foundation for some common understanding of the ethical basis for informed consent in radiation oncology and some practical tools that practices can use as a point of reference in developing practice-specific informed consent processes.

Comments for both documents are due September 16 and can be accessed at www.astro.org/PublicComment.

Additionally, on August 28, ASTRO submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule, urging the Agency to boost hospital and corresponding freestanding center payments for radiation treatment delivery services. See the letter and additional details.