Dr. B. Frazier Taylor, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
100 Park St Glens Falls NY, 12801About
Dr. B. Frazier Taylor practices Radiation Oncology in Glens Falls, NY. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Taylor 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
University of Louisville Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a focus in novel cancer therapy 2007
University of Louisville School of Medicine 2009
Board Certification
American Board of Radiology (ABR)
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Data provided by the National Library of MedicineTreatments
- Prostate Cancer
- Throat Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Multiple Myeloma
- Oral Cancer
- Wrinkle & Scar Improvement
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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Get to know Radiation Oncologist Dr. B. Frazier Taylor, who serves patients throughout the State of New York.
A highly trained radiation oncologist, Dr. Taylor is affiliated with Northeastern Radiation Oncology, PLLC, seeing patients at Glens Falls Hospital’s C. R. Wood Cancer Center. He also serves patients in Saratoga Hospital’s Mollie Wilmot Radiation Oncology Center in Saratoga Springs, New York and Ellis Hospital in Schenectady New York..
Northeastern Radiation Oncology, PLLC, offers its patients an outstanding team of board-certified physicians, providing services at the C. R. Wood Cancer Center, Mollie Wilmot Radiation Oncology Center and Roswell Park Cancer Center at Ellis. This compassionate team of professionals are dedicated to providing the best possible experience for patients and their loved ones. Their qualifications and expertise are matched by their genuine concern for them, both as a patient and as an individual.
Educated in the United States, Dr. Taylor graduated with his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 2009, as well as earning a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a focus in novel cancer therapy from the University of Louisville in 2007. He completed his internship at the Yale New Haven Hospital, and completed his residency in radiation oncology at the Yale University Medical Center in 2014.
Following his training, the doctor attained board certification in radiation oncology through the American Board of Radiology (ABR). The mission of the ABR is to serve patients, the public, and the medical profession by certifying that its diplomats have acquired, demonstrated, and maintained a requisite standard of knowledge, skill, and understanding essential to the safe and competent practice of diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, and medical physics.
Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves the controlled use of radiation to treat cancer. It is one of the three primary specialties – the other two being surgical and medical oncology – involved in the treatment of cancer. A radiation oncologist is a specialist physician who uses ionizing radiation in the treatment of cancer.
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