Dr. Peter George Garrett MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
8111 S Emerson Ave Indianapolis IN, 46237About
Dr. Peter Garrett practices Radiation Oncology in Indianapolis, IN. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Garrett 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
Queens Univ, Fac of Med, Kingston, Ont, Canada 1977
Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences 1977
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Radical radiotherapy for muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: failure analysis.
- Carcinoma of the tonsil: the effect of dose-time-volume factors on local control.
- Metastatic breast cancer: ovarian ablation with lower half-body irradiation.
- The treatment of glomus tumors in the temporal bone by megavoltage radiation.
- Cancer of the tonsil: results of radical radiation therapy with surgery in reserve.
- Carcinoma of the oropharynx: soft palate.
- Cancer of the paranasal sinuses with particular reference to maxillary sinus cancer.
- Carcinoma of the oropharynx: tonsil.
- Malignant lymphoma of the thyroid gland.
Treatments
- Prostate Cancer
- Throat Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Oral Cancer
- Aerolase® Technologies
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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