Sentences with phrase «of radiation oncology»

Its mission is to strive to ensure the highest quality care for radiation therapy patients and promote success in the practice of radiation oncology.

If radiation oncology is an appropriate option, they will discuss the option of radiation oncology with the pet's owners and will refer the case further to the radiation oncology service.

«The way I think of radiation is it's like building a brick wall,» said study co-lead author Dr. Nicholas G. Zaorsky, a radiation oncologist and assistant professor of radiation oncology at Penn State College of Medicine.

The study lasted two decades and was led by Dr. Mitchell Kamrava, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at UCLA and member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

* Jim Fiordalisi is a postdoc in the department of radiation oncology at UNC, Chapel Hill, and has been an active member of the programming, information, and steering committees of the UNC PDA since its inception.

«This is a win - win - win for patients, payers, and employers,» Bekelman said, «The field of radiation oncology should be recognized for technical advances in clinical care that have achieved safe, effective, curative treatment for prostate cancer in fewer weeks.»

«It really stood out, especially because bilateral mastectomy has not been demonstrated to improve survival, and clearly has a negative impact on employment,» says lead study author Reshma Jagsi, M.D., professor and deputy chair of radiation oncology at Michigan Medicine.

At Silver Cross Dr. Anne McCall, medical director of radiation oncology at University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross, performed a unique breast cancer treatment, 3 - D Surface Imaging to Facilitate Deep - Inspiration Breath - Hold (DIBH) on Bakker.

2011: Pediatric radiation oncologist Stephanie Terezakis, M.D., led the first - ever in - depth, scientifically based safety analysis of radiation oncology and reported that a combination of several well - known safety procedures could greatly reduce patient - harming errors in the use of radiation to treat cancer.

Since earning his board certification, Dr. Arkans has co-authored multiple publications on veterinary oncology, and has delivered many lectures and seminars on various aspects of radiation oncology.

«This is not positive news for astronauts deployed on a two - to - three - year round trip to Mars,» said the professor of radiation oncology in UCI's School of Medicine.

«If you're going to use an MRI scan or a CT scan or... do something like radiosurgery, you need a team of people, because nobody has the expertise to span neurosurgery, the medical portion of radiation oncology, and medical physics,» says Frank Bova, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Florida medical school in Gainesville.

«This study raises novel questions about the role of the opiate receptor in cancer progression,» said Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, chairman of radiation oncology and co-director of the Ludwig Center for Metastasis Research at the University of Chicago.

Alizadeh and assistant professor of radiation oncology Maximilian Diehn, MD, PhD, share senior authorship of the study, which will be published Nov. 9 in Science Translational Medicine.

From 1980 to 1990, he served as director of the radiation oncology committee of the Pediatric Oncology Group, a U.S. and Canadian collaborative group that studied childhood cancers.

3/5/2008 UCSD Radiation Oncology Services to Come to North County The UCSD Department of Radiation Oncology, in conjunction with the UCSD Medical Center and School of Medicine, has broken ground for construction of a radiation oncology center at the San Diego Cancer Center in Encinitas, a move that will improve acc... More...

2017: Akila Viswanathan, M.D., M.P.H., executive vice chair, professor, and director of radiation oncology services for the National Capital Region campus and director of gynecological radiation oncology services for Johns Hopkins brought a pioneering new therapy to the Kimmel Cancer Center.

I have had the privilege to witness the evolution of radiation oncology discipline in three continents paralleled by improvement of patients» treatment outcome.

«Burnout in United States academic chairs of radiation oncology programs.»

Still relatively new in veterinary medicine, the presence of a radiation oncology department is consistent with PVSEC's commitment to patient care innovation.

While Dr. Arkans is experienced with all types of radiation oncology, he maintains a special interest in Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT) and Intensity modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), as well as intrathoracic radiation therapy techniques.

unparalleled contribution to the field of radiation oncology and ensure this spirit of innovation and dedication continues,

Team - based collaborative care between breast surgeons, plastic surgeons and radiation oncologists is critical to help patients experience good outcomes,» says senior author Benjamin Smith, M.D., associate professor of radiation oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

«Fears about radiation are common, so it is very important to make sure women are fully informed before they make the decision to pursue much more aggressive surgery than they need,» says study author Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., professor and deputy chair of radiation oncology at Michigan Medicine.

Safer Radiation Therapy Radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences experts led the first - ever safety analysis of radiation oncology.

Although Dr. Schutte is experienced in all aspects of radiation oncology, she has particular interests in novel diagnostic and therapeutic radiotechnologies and radiopharmaceuticals.

About Youtuber The American College of Radiation Oncology is the essential, professional society for success in the day - to - day practice of radiation oncology.

The departments of radiation oncology at MGH and what was then the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy (JCRT), which was founded in 1968, have offered post-doctoral fellowships since 1999 and 1973 respectively.

Phuoc Tran, M.D., Ph.D., was appointed clinical director of radiation oncology.

Other therapies need to be tested for the treatment of patients at risk for lymph node metastasis,» says Padera, who is an assistant professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School.

CEO Igor Barani, formerly a professor of radiation oncology at the University of California in San Francisco, says Enlitic's algorithms outperformed four radiologists in detecting and classifying lung nodules as benign or malignant.

Back in 2000, Randy Jirtle, a professor of radiation oncology at Duke University, and his postdoctoral student Robert Waterland designed a groundbreaking genetic experiment that was simplicity itself.

«These patients have limited disease - specific survival with conventional radiation alone, suggesting a need for changing treatment approaches and paradigms for this group,» said Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

«Cancer cell metabolism is a little bit peculiar,» said senior author Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD, an associate professor of radiation oncology.

«Our preclinical data suggest that combining low doses of these inhibitors will enhance the clinical effects of both drugs as a potential treatment for patients with AML,» says the senior author, Feyruz V. Rassool, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).

In our trial, however, the addition of radiation therapy directed at each of the cancerous areas greatly improved how patients responded to subsequent rounds of chemotherapy,» said Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

«Our findings suggest a marked unmet need for discussion about genetic risk,» says study author Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

As we are seeing more women survive breast cancer, we need to focus on long term survivorship issues and ensuring that women have access to this important part of treatment,» says study first author Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

In a search for ways of extending the value of radiation and limiting the collateral damage to healthy tissue that necessarily high doses of radiation may inflict, Raman worked with Phuoc Tran, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences, oncology, and urology, and also a member of the Kimmel Cancer Center.

«Even before the patient completes all of the MRIs, CT scans and other imaging procedures following diagnosis, we can have a recommendation for which drug and dosage to prescribe,» said Kareem Azab, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center member who leads the research.

Teeth and nails are good for measuring radiation because they pick up free radicals (atoms, or ions, with unpaired electrons) created by ionizing radiation and can retain them for long periods of time, says Harold Swartz, a Dartmouth Medical School professor of radiation oncology and director of the Dartmouth Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation.

«Over the past several years, with advances in technology, radiation to only the surgical bed of the resected lesion has become of interest,» said Anita Mahajan, MD, professor of radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and lead author of the study.

«This study draws attention to the common consensus that the use of low - dose CT scans for image guidance for children is important for quality treatment and to ensure treatment accuracy,» said Stephanie A. Terezakis, MD, co-author of the study and assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore.

«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

As the former chair of the department of radiation oncology at both the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Kumar has initiated clinical trials on prostate cancer through the U.S. Department of Defense and on head and neck cancer through the National Cancer Institute.

With the use of Gamma Knife radiosurgery, a more targeted effective alternative, notes Douglas Kondziolka, MD, the Gray Family Professor of Neurosurgery, professor of radiation oncology, vice chair of clinical research in the Department of Neurosurgery, and director of NYU Langone's Gamma Knife program, patients can be spared these side effects.

They'll be bombarded with such radiation for several years during a future mission, explains Charles Limoli, the study's lead author and a professor of radiation oncology at the University of California, Irvine school of medicine.

To honor Dr. Wharam's unparalleled contribution to the field of radiation oncology and ensure this spirit of innovation and dedication continues, DeWeese initiated a campaign to establish the Moody Wharam Professorship.