Dr. Won K Tak M.D.
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
119 Belmont Street U-Mass Memorial Med. Worcester MA, 01605About
Dr. Won Tak practices Radiation Oncology in Worcester, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Tak 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
Kyongpook Natl Univ, Coll of Med, Taegu, So Korea 1965
Kyungpook National University School Of Medicine 1965
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Preoperative irradiation of primarily unresectable colorectal carcinoma.
- Preoperative irradiation of primarily unresectable colorectal carcinoma.
- Editorial: Irradiated tissue and biopsy.
- Radiation therapy for surgically proven para-aortic node metastasis in endometrial carcinoma.
- Accuracy of frozen-section diagnosis at surgery in clinical stage I and II endometrial carcinoma.
- High-dose, short-duration cisplatin/doxorubicin combination chemotherapy for advanced ovarian epithelial cancer.
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the vulva: a radiosensitive tumor.
- Primary adenocarcinoma of the breast arising in the vulva.
- The role of interstitial therapy in present day radiotherapy.
- The role of interstitial therapy in present day radiotherapy.
- Carcinoma of the endometrium with cervical involvement (state II).
- Carcinoma of the endometrium with cervical involvement (state II).
- Interstitial therapy in gynecological cancer.
- Primary radiation therapy for endometrial carcinoma: a case controlled study.
- Squamous cell carcinoma arising in a mature cystic teratoma with metastasis to the paraaortic nodes.
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