Sentences with phrase «said radiation oncologist»

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«One of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is what to do for patients when the cancer comes back in an area that's been treated previously with radiation treatment,» said James J. Urbanic, M.D., lead author of the studies and a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist.

«If [radiation oncologists] were to say protons are better, and they didn't have their own facility for it... they'd have to refer patients somewhere else.

«Urologists tend to prefer to forgo adjuvant radiation therapy, because they fear the side effects, and radiation oncologists tend to prefer offering adjuvant radiation therapy because they fear the risk of metastasis [cancer spreading to other sites in the body],» Showalter said.

Existing tests are fast and accurate — but they rely on sophisticated laboratories, expensive machinery and meticulous work, says Dipanjan Chowdhury, a radiation oncologist at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

«Because 85 percent of people in the study reported extending the antenna during calls, we might have expected to find a disproportionate cluster of tumors behind the eye and the ear on the side the cell phone was used since radiation emission is highest at the antenna,» says co-author Mark Malkin, a neuro - oncologist at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center.

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.

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.

«If you are a young woman who was treated with radiation therapy to your chest as a teenager or child for HL, or for that matter chest radiation therapy for any reason, you should be having a conversation with your family doctor or your oncologist about whether to start breast cancer screening earlier than most women would,» says Dr. Hodgson.

«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.

Study coauthor Ronald Levy, an oncologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says that physicians generally take their cues from the disease, waiting to see how fast it is moving — and treating it with toxic chemotherapy (sometimes with radiation) only if it becomes aggressive.

Dr. Parda, who practices oncology in Pittsburgh, says that many types of physicians are likely to be a part of a patient's cancer care team including a medical oncologist, breast surgeon, surgical oncologist, plastic surgeon, and radiation oncologist as well as their ob / gyn.

President of ESTRO, Professor Vincenzo Valentini, a radiation oncologist at the Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy, said: «This study not only shows a better outcome for the women treated with IMRT, but has an additional value in defining the selection criteria for providing treatment to those patients who will benefit from new frontline technologies.

«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.

«Studies have time and time again shown that brachytherapy is the most important part of cervical cancer treatment, because it is essential to eradicating the tumor,» said Timothy Showalter, MD, a radiation oncologist at UVA Cancer Center.

«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.

«We didn't see an improvement in overall survival or a statistically significant increase in progression - free survival, as defined in the context of this trial,» says the study's senior author, Minesh P. Mehta, M.B., Ch.B., Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a radiation oncologist at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

Dr. Edward Melian, a radiation oncologist at Loyola and co-author of the study, said patients generally have done very well with radiation treatments.

«Our findings indicate that physicians should feel confident recommending radiation therapy to patients who are too sick to undergo surgery or who choose not to undergo surgery for other reasons,» said Andrew M. Farach, MD, a radiation oncologist at Houston Methodist Hospital and lead author on the study.

«To move the needle forward toward prolonged survival and better treatment outcomes, our research team created a combined investigational regimen for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer,» said Richard Tuli, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology and a member of the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.

The University of Chicago's multidisciplinary team of gynecologic oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and pathologists «will continue to be committed to providing patients with as many pre - and post-surgical treatment options as possible,» Yamada said.

Jim Hu, a urologic oncologist at NewYork - Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, said he was struck by the «significant differences in the likelihood of metastatic disease,» which he said could eventually translate into a survival benefit for the men who got surgery or radiation.

«Genetic testing can be a powerful tool for certain women,» said study author Reshma Jagsi, a radiation oncologist at the University of Michigan Health System.

Dr. Laura Jacimore, a board - certified radiation oncologist with the new center, said this was something she envisioned since she started working 12 years ago at the hospital.

«It's not something many men think about, but it can happen,» says Daniel S. Oh, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist with UNC REX Cancer Care.

They are like the oncologists who looked at my data and said, kiddo, you need an operation and radiation.