Two Onc Docs

This week’s episode will be focusing on Testicular Cancer, including the treatment of Non-Seminomas. We are so honored to have Dr. Larry Einhorn here with us today and he provides key pearls, in addition to words of wisdom for trainees in oncology.

This week’s episode will be focusing on the risk factors, work-up, and staging of Testicular Cancer, as well as cover the treatment of Seminomas. We are so honored to have Dr. Larry Einhorn here with us today who is a legend when it comes to the treatment of germ cell tumors, and among many other accolades is Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Indiana.

This week’s episode will be focusing on hematopoietic growth factors, including G-CSF, TPO agonists, and ESAs. This is another episode in our series on supportive care, and a highly testable and frequently discussed topics on consults and in clinic.

Today marks our 2 year mark of Two Onc Docs! It’s been a while since we’ve done a re-intro so we figured we would re-introduce ourselves and explain why we picked heme/onc as a speciality, and briefly cover our study plans.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF). We will go over important details on the definition, diagnosis, and management options of this condition which affects >2/3 of patients with cancer.

This week’s episode will be focusing on Primary CNS Lymphoma. We will go over important details on the epidemiology, diagnosis, staging and treatment options.

This week’s episode will be focusing on cutaneous malignancies other than melanoma including squamous cell skin cancer and basal cell carcinoma. We will go over the important details on staging, diagnosis, & treatment options. 

This week’s episode will be focusing on Malignant Mesothelioma. We will go over the important details on diagnosis, work-up, the different subtypes, and staging as well as treatment options for operable and inoperable disease.

We are starting a supportive care series, because these topics comes up very often in oncology. This week's episode will be focusing on Bone Modifying Agents, such as bisphosphonates and Denosumab - when they are indicated, mechanism of action, and key pearls/toxicities.

This week’s episode will be focusing on acquired causes of underproduction anemias. We will go over the important details on iron deficiency, vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies as well as anemia of chronic disease, anemia of pregnancy, and a few other rarer causes of underproduction anemias. This topic will come up time and time again during consults, clinic and of course on test day.