Wharam treated all types of cancer, but as the clinic expanded and
more radiation oncologists were recruited, he made pediatric cancers his primary focus.
Not exact matches
More research, however, is needed to better characterize those intermediate - risk patients who can safely be monitored on a surveillance program,» said D. Andrew Loblaw, MD, a
radiation oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada.
«Most clinicians have felt that «
more was better» when it came to blocking testosterone in prostate cancer patients, however, results for the specific endpoints we focused on, OS and DSS, indicate that this was clearly not the case,» said Amin Mirhadi, MD, lead author of the study and a
radiation oncologist at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be
more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard
radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a
radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
RSNA is an association of
more than 53,000 radiologists,
radiation oncologists, medical physicists and related scientists, promoting excellence in patient care and health care delivery through education, research and technologic innovation.
The upcoming U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center's Breast Cancer Summit offers a glimpse into the multidisciplinary approach our breast cancer patient receives from medical and surgical
oncologists,
radiation oncologists, pathologists, geneticists, reconstructive surgeons, nurses specializing in cancer care, and
more.
These high - precision treatment techniques allow
radiation oncologists to treat tumors with the highest degree of accuracy, making treatment safer and
more effective.
What's
more,
oncologists can program the IMRT machine to deliver these
radiation beams with varying levels of intensity, so that the higher toxicity beams are not aimed near healthy tissue.
Our surgical
oncologists provide the highest - quality cancer care to diagnose and remove tumors, debulk tumors to help make chemotherapy or
radiation therapy
more effective, and relieve symptoms or side effects of therapies.
New research led by a
radiation oncologist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute indicates that less may be
more when it comes to some forms of
radiation therapy for cancer.
«We're getting an
oncologist involved and we have to figure out what the next steps are as far as chemotherapy or
radiation or
more spine surgery,» Hooman M. Melamed, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon at Cedar Sinai Marina Del Rey Hospital, who has been treating Miller, told People.
She went to the University of Pennsylvania and saw another
oncologist, who recommended
more chemo, which Richardson followed with 33
radiation treatments that finally ended in January 2008.
Your veterinary
radiation oncologist will be able to help you decide whether
radiation therapy can play a role in your pet's treatment plan, learn
more about Stereotactic
Radiation Therapy here.
For
more information about this disease, treatment options for your pets, current clinical trials and research opportunities, please contact a cardiologist, medical
oncologist,
radiation oncologist, or member of the NC State clinical trials team.
Your
radiation oncologist will review the options in
more depth, after reviewing the MRI or CT scan, and your pet's overall condition to determine the safest and most effective treatment.
«Passion and Commitment» was the title of a remarkable show at FreedmanArt this season: selections from the collection lovingly and perceptively assembled over
more than six decades by the eminent Philadelphia - based
radiation oncologist Dr. Luther W. Brady, Jr..