Dr. Timothy D. Shafman MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
115 Cass Ave Woonsocket RI, 02895About
Dr. Timothy Shafman practices Radiation Oncology in Woonsocket, RI. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Shafman 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
Harvard Medical School 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology- 1994
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Using plasma transforming growth factor beta-1 during radiotherapy to select patients for dose escalation.
- Receiver operating characteristic curves to assess predictors of radiation-induced symptomatic lung injury.
- Optimization of a 90Sr/90Y radiation source train stepping for intravascular brachytherapy.
- Routine use of approximately 60 Gy once-daily thoracic irradiation for patients with limited-stage small-cell lung cancer.
- Risk of long-term complications after TFG-beta1-guided very-high-dose thoracic radiotherapy.
- A practical approach to pulmonary risk assessment in the radiotherapy of lung cancer.
- Dosimetric and clinical predictors for radiation-induced esophageal injury.
- Challenges in defining radiation pneumonitis in patients with lung cancer.
- The impact of pre-radiotherapy surgery on radiation-induced lung injury.
- Combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy for upper aerodigestive tract cancers.
- Assessing the ability of the antiangiogenic and anticytokine agent thalidomide to modulate radiation-induced lung injury.
- The utility of non-axial treatment beam orientations for lower lobe lung cancers.
Treatments
- Prostate Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer
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