Dr. Thomas E Merchant DO
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
262 Danny Thomas Pl # Ms 0515 Memphis TN, 38105About
Dr. Thomas Merchant practices Radiation Oncology in Memphis, TN. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Merchant 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
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine 1993
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science 1989
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- High-grade pediatric spinal cord tumors.
- Treatment of colorectal carcinoma in adolescents and young adults with surgery, 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin/interferon-alpha 2a and radiation therapy.
- Cutaneous and subcutaneous Ewing's sarcoma: an indolent disease.
- Malignant evolution of choroid plexus papilloma.
- Pediatric choroid plexus neoplasms.
- Prone breast radiotherapy in early-stage breast cancer: a preliminary analysis.
- Subtle white matter volume differences in children treated for medulloblastoma with conventional or reduced dose craniospinal irradiation.
- Comparison of two immobilization techniques using portal film and digitally reconstructed radiographs for pediatric patients with brain tumors.
- Effect of ionizing radiation on the human brain: white matter and gray matter T1 in pediatric brain tumor patients treated with conformal radiation therapy.
- Patterns of intellectual development among survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma: a longitudinal analysis.
- Multiagent chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for multifocal intraocular retinoblastoma.
- Effect of therapeutic ionizing radiation on the human brain.
- Cervical subluxation after surgery and irradiation of childhood ependymoma.
- Current management of childhood ependymoma.
- Risk factors for the development of obesity in children surviving brain tumors.
Treatments
- Brain Tumor
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