Building a global network to improve radiation therapy for cancer patients in underserved regions through education, innovation, and community-driven solutions.
Joined July 2018
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Rayos Contra Cancer retweeted
3 Jun 2025
🚨New publication alert!
Can remote training level the playing field in radiation oncology? Inspiring work by @CancerRayos shows it can!
Read more here:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lAb7…
#radiotherapy @WomanPhysicist
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24 Sep 2024
RCC is thrilled to complete its Head & Neck Cancer contouring training program in Latin America, its third time running the program and first time in the region. Congratulations to the hundreds of successful radiation oncologist participants in LATAM! Thanks to the @Elekta_Fdn !
23 Sep 2024
This Saturday we finished the RCC course for LATAM on head and neck cancer contouring and we are so happy with what we learned! 👏🏿🤓☢️ @CancerRayos @SanghviMd @BenLiMD @davidamperez86 Gracias por educar! 🍃🫂
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23 Mar 2024
Today, RCC is thrilled to complete it's newest pilot training program on "Transforming Your Center: Documents for Daily Use". This effort was thanks to countless hours by dedicated volunteers and in-country leaders in Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, and Cameroon. #ImprovingCancerCare!🤞
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23 Mar 2024
And thank you to our inspiring moderators, Sharareh Koufigar, Agnes Ewongwo, and Caroline Colbert!
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23 Mar 2024
Thank you to the Elekta Foundation for believing in us and sharing our vision and mission. Thank you to our amazing educators, Luis Fong de los Santos, Mustefa Said, Haitham Shaheen, Cesar Della Biancia, Adam Shulman, Soha Ahmed, Claire Dempsey, Eric Ford.
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12 Nov 2023
Honored to have @BobTimmermanMD join us to share pearls about lung SBRT. Together, including @BenLiMD and the 500 radiation oncologists and medical physicists who participated live, we are elevating care globally! 🤞 #MedEd #GlobalHealth #radonc
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Rayos Contra Cancer retweeted
18 May 2023
The @Elekta_Fdn and Rayos Contra Cancer offer a course on IMRT for Radiation Therapists/Technologists (RTTs) who work in LICs.
The course includes 14 live sessions in English, is vendor-neutral and free. Enroll here: bit.ly/Enrollment_IMRT3 #closethegap
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23 Apr 2023
Thank you to everyone who has supported our work and our mission over the past several years. We’ve come a long way. And - we’re just getting started.
ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.120…
#reimagine #educationsaveslives #globaloncology
19 Apr 2023
I'm extremely proud of this paper and excited to see that an idea conceived at the airport is finally in print. I should travel more 🤔(I'm 2 for 2). Congrats 🥂✨️ to my co-authors and my friend @BenLiMD who's a visionary in #GlobalOncology @CancerRayos.
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5 Dec 2020
We invite you to read our latest article- learn more about the gaps and how medical students can help advance the mission! tinyurl.com/y3u9espb @ProjectECHO @AmerMedicalAssn #RayosContraCancer #RCC
Leveraging Telehealth and Medical Student Volunteers to Bridge Gaps in Education Access for Providers in Limited-Resource Settings: Academic Medicine tinyurl.com/y3u9espb @CancerRayos #RCC Available for free for a limited time! Thanks to all our supporters!
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23 Jun 2019
Thanks @AmerMedicalAssn for highlighting the importance of the @ProjectECHO model for the future of #telehealth. We are proud to be a part of the ECHO community. bit.ly/2WOkKMq @mHealthIntel #RuralHealth #MovingKnowledgeNotPeople
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13 Nov 2018
Our mission is to create sustainable access to timely, high-quality, and affordable radiation treatment for cancer in limited-resource settings globally. #Cancer #radiation #Innovations #healthcare
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Rayos Contra Cancer retweeted
8 Nov 2018
A $10 million gift from alumna Jennifer R. Frist, BS’93, and husband William R. “Billy” Frist will endow a new center focused on supporting and developing the neurodiverse talents of individuals with #autism at @VUEngineering. vanderbi.lt/19ka8
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Rayos Contra Cancer retweeted
7 Nov 2018
How can patients with cancer get help quitting tobacco? This short video on NCI's Cancer Center Cessation Initiative explains: youtube.com/watch?v=mH_Lot3P… #TobaccoControl
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Rayos Contra Cancer retweeted
2 Nov 2018
A helpful & productive mantra for life.....
there is no learning without teaching, and no teaching without learning.
Strive to have dual identities as both learner & teacher.
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Rayos Contra Cancer retweeted
30 Oct 2018
Thrilled to see Dr. Ben Li, a @VUmedicine grad, during his visit back to Nashville
2017-- Ben pitched his concept to provide radiation therapy in low resource settings at the @VUMCradiology #RadX PowerPitch competition
2018-- Ben founded his non-profit @CancerRayos
#WayToGo!
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30 Sep 2018
Team’s potential lung cancer therapy lands award from SBIR news.vumc.org/2018/09/27/tea… via @vumchealth
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25 Sep 2018
Why Health Care Is The Next Frontier For MBAs: An interview With Vanderb... youtu.be/AQslwQOYqLs via @YouTube
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