Dr. Susan A Higgins MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
15 York St Hunter Building - 1s New Haven CT, 06510About
Dr. Susan Higgins practices Radiation Oncology in New Haven, CT. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Higgins 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
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1990
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alteration of the effects of cancer therapy agents on breast cancer cells by the herbal medicine black cohosh.
- Management of suspicious or indeterminate calcifications and impact on local control.
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the cervix.
- Effects of breast-conserving therapy on lactation after pregnancy.
- Concurrent chemo-radiation in the conservative management of breast cancer.
- Locoregional relapse and distant metastasis in conservatively managed triple negative early-stage breast cancer.
- Management of cellulitis associated with treatment of breast cancer.
- Using nodal ratios to predict risk of regional recurrences in patients treated with breast conservation therapy with 4 or more positive lymph nodes.
- American Brachytherapy Society consensus guidelines for locally advanced carcinoma of the cervix. Part III: low-dose-rate and pulsed-dose-rate brachytherapy.
- Preclinical studies of the Chinese Herbal Medicine formulation PHY906 (KD018) as a potential adjunct to radiation therapy.
- Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? What plastic surgeons need to know about radiation therapy techniques.
- Intraoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer: deceptively simple?
- Roundtable--the changing oncology landscape: evolution or revolution?
- Analysis of coronary artery dosimetry in the 3-dimensional era: Implications for organ-at-risk segmentation and dose tolerances in left-sided tangential breast radiation.
- Predictors of vaginal stenosis after intravaginal high-dose-rate brachytherapy for endometrial carcinoma.
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