Dr. Lisa Ann Kachnic MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
830 Harrison Ave Moakley Building Ll1 Boston MA, 02118About
Dr. Lisa Kachnic practices Radiation Oncology in Boston, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Kachnic specializes in treating cancer with radiation, using radiation therapy to treat a wide variety of cancers. Radiation therapy uses carefully targeted and regulated doses of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1991
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Radiation therapy in the management of rectal cancer.
- Combined modality therapy for rectal and colon cancer.
- Roles of BRCA1 and BRCA2 in homologous recombination, DNA replication fidelity and the cellular response to ionizing radiation.
- Quality-of-life outcomes in oncology.
- Radiation therapy for gastrointestinal cancer.
- Adjuvant gemcitabine and concurrent radiation for patients with resected pancreatic cancer: a phase II study.
- Should preoperative or postoperative therapy be administered in the management of rectal cancer?
- Can pelvic radiotherapy be omitted in select patients with rectal cancer?
- Therapeutic exploitation of tumor cell defects in homologous recombination.
- Analysis of radiation therapy for the control of Merkel cell carcinoma of the head and neck based on 36 cases and a literature review.
- Elective clinical target volumes for conformal therapy in anorectal cancer: a radiation therapy oncology group consensus panel contouring atlas.
- Preoperative chemoradiotherapy in the management of localized rectal cancer: the new standard.
- Accomplishments in 2007 in the adjuvant treatment of rectal cancer.
- Adjuvant chemoradiation for localized rectal cancer: current trends and future directions.
- FANCD2-deficient human fibroblasts are hypersensitive to ionising radiation at oxygen concentrations of 0% and 3% but not under normoxic conditions.
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