A Radiation Oncologist who had training in St. Luke’s Medical Center with the use of a LINAC machine for management of head and neck cancer, gynecologic, genito-urinary, lung cancer, lymphoma, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal malignancies and palliative care. Training consisted of high dose brachytherapy and delivery of external radiotherapy through conventional, 3D conformal, IMRT, IGRT, SRS, SRT, SBRT, and TBI techniques. He has good clinical background with the use of high dose brachytherapy for management of cervical, endometrial, prostate and endobronchial cancer. He had his observership in NYU Hospital and Stony Brook Hospital for head and neck cancer, breast cancer and CNS disease for continuing education.
This is a case of a 59 year-old female was seen due to pain and purulentdischarge on the right mandible. Patient is a diagnosed case of multiple myeloma three years prior to admission who was treated with melphalan, prednisone, zolendronic acid, and has undergone radiotherapy for 25 sessions. Panoramic radiograph of the mandibles showed radioluscency at the body of mandible suggestive of an osteonecrotic process. After discovering this, zolendronic acid was discontinued and sequestrectomy and hyperbaric oxygen was done as advised by the maxillofacial surgeon.
In honor of the end of breast cancer awareness month, I found it an appropriate time to discuss life AFTER cancer. For anyone who has been through the process, or knows someone who has, you know that breast cancer is not only physically taxing, but also an emotionally draining disease as well. The legacy of treatment and its side effects for a person can be huge. Treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone drugs can leave a woman with many physical and emotional changes to deal with. In a recent poll of more than 600 women conducted by Breast » » » [Read more]
A mass that arises from the pituitary gland is called a pituitary adenoma. It is usually benign. It is classified based on the size of the mass and the type of cells that predominate in the tumor. These tumors can be functioning or nonfunctioning. Their function is based on the type of cells that comprise them. Tumors that are less than 10 mm in size are called pituitary microadenoma while those that are more than 10 mm are called pituitary macroadenoma. A pituitary microadenoma does not usually cause symptoms because they are small and they do not impinge on the » » » [Read more]
