Dr. Shannon M Macdonald MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
100 Blossom Street Cox 3 Boston MA, 02114Rating
4/5
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Dr. Shannon Macdonald practices Radiation Oncology in Boston, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Macdonald 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
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine 2001
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Proton beam therapy following resection for childhood ependymoma.
- Early clinical outcomes using proton radiation for children with central nervous system atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors.
- Standard fractionation low-dose proton radiotherapy for diffuse choroidal hemangiomas in pediatric Sturge-Weber syndrome.
- Bifocal intracranial tumors of nongerminomatous germ cell etiology: diagnostic and therapeutic implications.
- Intensity modulated proton therapy for postmastectomy radiation of bilateral implant reconstructed breasts: a treatment planning study.
- Proton radiation therapy for pediatric medulloblastoma and supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors: outcomes for very young children treated with upfront chemotherapy.
- Delayed diagnosis in children with intracranial germ cell tumors.
- Radiation therapy: retinal tumors.
- Cost effectiveness of proton therapy compared with photon therapy in the management of pediatric medulloblastoma.
- Second nonocular tumors among survivors of retinoblastoma treated with contemporary photon and proton radiotherapy.
- Practice patterns of photon and proton pediatric image guided radiation treatment: results from an International Pediatric Research consortium.
- Cost effectiveness of proton versus photon radiation therapy with respect to the risk of growth hormone deficiency in children.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Breast Cancer
- Brain Tumor
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