Dr. Rinaa S Punglia MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
44 Binney St Dana Farber Cancer Institute Ctr For Outcomes And Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Rinaa Punglia practices Radiation Oncology in Boston, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Punglia 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 Med Sch, Boston Ma 1998
Harvard Medical School 1998
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Integrating surgery and radiotherapy to reduce toxicity while maintaining local control for breast cancer: a fine balance.
- Effect of verification bias on screening for prostate cancer by measurement of prostate-specific antigen.
- Operating characteristics of prostate-specific antigen and verification bias.
- Impact of age, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and cancer on prostate-specific antigen level.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of computerized tomography in the routine follow-up of patients after primary treatment for Hodgkin's disease.
- Variability among breast radiation oncologists in delineation of the postsurgical lumpectomy cavity.
- Partial breast irradiation versus whole breast radiotherapy for early-stage breast cancer: a decision analysis.
- Influence of year of diagnosis, patient age, and sociodemographic status on recommending adjuvant radiation treatment for stage I testicular seminoma.
- Cost effectiveness and screening interval of lipid screening in Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors.
- Cost-effectiveness of CT and PET-CT for determining the need for adjuvant neck dissection in locally advanced head and neck cancer.
- Using lifetime risk estimates to recommend magnetic resonance imaging screening for breast cancer survivors.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of stereotactic body radiotherapy and radiofrequency ablation for medically inoperable, early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.
- Effect of very small tumor size on cancer-specific mortality in node-positive breast cancer.
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Treatments
- Breast Cancer
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