Medicare so far has been very, very good to the specialty of radiation oncology.
Weiss is also the director of breast radiation oncology and breast health outreach at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
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"Partial-breast irradiation is a very promising approach, but there's a lot we have to learn, " says Lori Pierce, professor of radiation oncology at University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Walter Curran, chief of radiation oncology at Emory University.
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"In cancer, we create free radical damage to tumor cells with treatment, and we want that, but antioxidants quench this damage, " explains Dr. Brian Lawenda, the clinical director of radiation oncology at the Naval Medical Center, in San Diego, California.
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Similarly, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, a professor of radiation oncology and cell biology at NYU and her team lost mouse populations involved in studies of how radiation exposure increases cancer risk as well as how radiation can be targeted to treat tumors.
Another recent study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and led by Dr. Hattangadi, suggested that only about one-third of women treated with the technique were considered "suitable" under guidelines issued in 2009 by the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
"For women who already have lymphedema, this is good news because we have not known how to get them back to moving and grooving again, " said Weiss, who is the director of breast radiation oncology and breast health outreach at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
The team, at the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology at Oxford University, were looking for a protein, called gamma-H2AX, which is produced in response to damaged DNA. This tends to be one of the first steps on the road to a cell becoming cancerous.
The studies "aren't substantial enough or rigorous enough to enable doctors to use in making decisions for their patients, " says Connie Manz, chief medical officer for closely held 21st Century Oncology, a large provider of radiation-therapy services based in Fort Myers, Fla.
Only this year did Dosoretz disclose to shareholders that he is a half-owner of a Florida company called Oncology Consulting Services that directs lower-paying HMO patients from Humana to radiation clinics owned by Radiation Therapy Services.
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