Dr. Scott Latham Stafford M.D.
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Scott Stafford practices Radiation Oncology in Rochester, MN. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Stafford 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
Mechanical Engineering 1987
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chemotherapy, irradiation, and surgery for function-preserving therapy of primary extremity soft tissue sarcomas: initial treatment with ifosfamide, mitomycin, doxorubicin, and cisplatin plus granulocyte macrophage-colony-stimulating factor.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery: the preferred management for patients with nonvestibular schwannomas?
- Low-dose, single-fraction, whole-lung radiotherapy for pulmonary hypertension associated with myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.
- Radiotherapy for MALT lymphoma.
- Results of stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with imaging defined cavernous sinus meningiomas.
- Modified COMS plaques for 125I and 103Pd iris melanoma brachytherapy.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for recurrent or unresectable pilocytic astrocytoma.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal pain secondary to benign skull base tumors.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery of intracranial meningiomas.
- Dose-volume analysis of radiation-induced optic neuropathy after single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery.
Treatments
- Brain Tumor
- Lymphoma
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
Professional Memberships
- Member Minnesota Medical Association/Zumbro Valley
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