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Walter "Wally" J. Curran, Jr. (born April 24, 1951) is an American radiation oncologist specializing in the treatment of malignant brain tumors and locally advanced lung cancer. [1] Curran was named chief of Piedmont Oncology Institute for Piedmont Healthcare in 2023, after serving as the global chief medical officer of GenesisCare. [2]
There he received his D.Phil. in radiation biology under Frank Ellis in 1956. From 1957 to 1959, Suit was senior assistant surgeon at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and from 1959 at the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Center of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston , working under Gilbert Fletcher.
Lynn D. Wilson is an American radiation oncologist. He is a professor of Therapeutic Radiology and of Dermatology, Executive Vice Chairman, Therapeutic Radiology, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Radiation Oncology Services at Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 2000, Attardi joined Stanford University School of Medicine in the departments of radiation oncology and genetics. [10] Attardi is the Catharine and Howard Avery Professor of the school of medicine, and professor of radiation oncology and genetics at Stanford University [1] She serves as a Program Director of the Cancer Biology and Cancer Stem Cells Program at Stanford Cancer Institute.
Radiation oncology is one of the three primary specialties, the other two being surgical and medical oncology, involved in the treatment of cancer. Radiation can be given as a curative modality, either alone or in combination with surgery and/or chemotherapy. It may also be used palliatively, to relieve symptoms in patients with incurable cancers.
He then served as a fellow in hematology–oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan until 1999. Fata was an attending physician at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, from 2000 to 2003. Fata struck out on his own in 2003, opening Michigan Hematology–Oncology (MHO) in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Gorski's work with Helena Mauceri and others, published in Nature in 1998 as "Combined effects of angiostatin and ionizing radiation in antitumour therapy" studied the "combined effects of angiostatin" (a protein occurring in several animal species) "and ionizing radiation in anti-tumor therapy" [25] led to investigation into the selective ...