Dr. Patrick W Mclaughlin MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
47601 Grand River Novi MI, 48374About
Dr. Patrick Mclaughlin practices Radiation Oncology in Novi, MI. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Mclaughlin 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
Wayne State University School of Medicine 1981
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The association between presentation PSA and race in two sequential time periods in prostate cancer patients seen at a university hospital and its community affiliates.
- The use of mutual information in registration of CT and MRI datasets post permanent implant.
- Vessel-sparing prostate radiotherapy: dose limitation to critical erectile vascular structures (internal pudendal artery and corpus cavernosum) defined by MRI.
- Randomized trial of high- and low-source strength (125)I prostate seed implants.
- Functional anatomy of the prostate: implications for treatment planning.
- Variability of prostate brachytherapy pre-implant dosimetry: a multi-institutional analysis.
- Combined permanent implant and external-beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
- Radiographic and anatomic basis for prostate contouring errors and methods to improve prostate contouring accuracy.
- Greater postimplant swelling in small-volume prostate glands: implications for dosimetry, treatment planning, and operating room technique.
- Precision grid and hand motion for accurate needle insertion in brachytherapy.
- Expansion/de-expansion tool to quantify the accuracy of prostate contours.
- Novel needle cutting edge geometry for end-cut biopsy.
- Effects of insertion speed and trocar stiffness on the accuracy of needle position for brachytherapy.
- High-dose-rate strictures: a theory of cancer meets anatomic reality.
- Optimal needle design for minimal insertion force and bevel length.
Treatments
- Prostate Cancer
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