Yasuo Yoshioka is a Japanese radiation oncologist and brachytherapist. His main specialty is prostate cancer radiotherapy, including high- and low-dose-rate brachytherapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy and stereotactic body radiation therapy. He is an expert in high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy and reported the world’s first HDR monotherapy experience for prostate cancer. He implants gold markers/perirectal spacer by himself.

EDUCATION & LICENSE

1995        Osaka University Faculty of Medicine (Graduated), Medical Doctor (Japan)

2001        Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

2002        Doctor of Philosophy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

2006        Board Certified Radiation Oncologist, JASTRO and JRS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1995-1998    Resident, Osaka University Hospital and Osaka National Hospital

1998-2002    Graduate Student, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

2002-2004    Vice-chief physician, Division of Radiation Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center

2004-2008    Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

2008-2017    Associate Professor, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

2017-2020    Division Director, High-precision Radiotherapy, Radiation Oncology Department,

Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

2020-Present  Department Director, Radiation Oncology Department, Cancer Institute Hospital,

Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

ASTRO, ESTRO, JASTRO (councilor and official journal associate editor), Japan Radiological Society, Japan Society of Urologic Oncology (councilor), Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology (councilor)

PUBLICATIONS (about 200 English articles and 1 book)

Yoshioka Y, et al. Nationwide, multicenter, retrospective study on high-dose-rate brachy-therapy as monotherapy for prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2017;97:952-961.

Zaorsky NG, Yoshioka Y, et al. The evolution of brachytherapy for prostate cancer. Nat Rev Urol 2017;14:415-439.

Yoshioka Y, Itami J, Oguchi M, Nakano T (eds.). Brachytherapy: Techniques and Evidences. Springer Nature Singapore 2019.