Dr. John B Fiveash MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
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Dr. John Fiveash practices Radiation Oncology in Birmingham, AL. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Fiveash 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.
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RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- 3D conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT) for high grade prostate cancer: a multi-institutional review.
- Balancing the possible effectiveness of postoperative radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer against the possible detriment of radiation-induced toxicity.
- Effect of multileaf collimator leaf width on physical dose distributions in the treatment of CNS and head and neck neoplasms with intensity modulated radiation therapy.
- Adding androgen suppression to radiotherapy may improve disease-free survival over radiotherapy alone in locally advanced prostate cancer.
- Bulb of penis as a marker for prostatic apex in external beam radiotherapy of prostate cancer.
- Dosimetric effect of respiration-gated beam on IMRT delivery.
- Adenoviral vector-mediated augmentation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFr) enhances the radiosensitization properties of anti-EGFr treatment in prostate cancer cells.
- IMRT dose escalation for positive para-aortic lymph nodes in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer while reducing dose to bone marrow and other organs at risk.
- Simultaneous optimization of sequential IMRT plans.
- Implementation of talairach atlas based automated brain segmentation for radiation therapy dosimetry.
- Dosimetric and radiobiological impact of dose fractionation on respiratory motion induced IMRT delivery errors: a volumetric dose measurement study.
- Phase I single-dose study of intracavitary-administered iodine-131-TM-601 in adults with recurrent high-grade glioma.
- A dosimetric comparison of electronic compensation, conventional intensity modulated radiotherapy, and tomotherapy in patients with early-stage carcinoma of the left breast.
- Predictors of distant brain recurrence for patients with newly diagnosed brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery alone.
- Effect of beam number on organ-at-risk sparing in dynamic multileaf collimator delivery of intensity modulated radiation therapy.
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