Dr. Ivy A Petersen M.D.
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Ivy Petersen practices Radiation Oncology in Rochester, MN. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Petersen 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
Med Coll of Ohio, Toledo Oh 1986
University of Toledo College of Medicine,Toledo, Oh, United States 1986
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Painful metastases involving bone: feasibility of percutaneous CT- and US-guided radio-frequency ablation.
- Risk of breast cancer and breast cancer characteristics in women after treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Local hyperthermia and radiation therapy in the retreatment of superficially located recurrences in Hodgkin's disease.
- Chronic toxicity risk after radiotherapy for patients with systemic sclerosis (systemic scleroderma) or systemic lupus erythematosus: association with connective tissue disorder severity.
- Can physicians accurately predict survival time in patients with metastatic cancer? Analysis of RTOG 97-14.
- Two or six hyperthermia treatments as an adjunct to radiation therapy yield similar tumor responses: results of a randomized trial.
- The addition of SPECT/CT lymphoscintigraphy to breast cancer radiation planning spares lymph nodes critical for arm drainage.
- Radiation quality, like art, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- The influence of initial hemoglobin and blood pressure levels on results of radiation therapy for carcinoma of the prostate.
- Preoperative Radiation Therapy With Simultaneous Integrated Boost Dose Escalation for Optimal Local Control of Retroperitoneal Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma.
- Radiotherapy for oral manifestations of Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Local control of extra-abdominal desmoid tumors.
Professional Memberships
- Member Minnesota Medical Association/Zumbro Valley
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