David K. Gaffney MD PHD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
1950 Cicle Of Hope Salt Lake City UT, 84112About
Dr. David Gaffney practices Radiation Oncology in Salt Lake City, UT. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Gaffney 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 College Of Wisconsin 1992
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Application of enhanced dynamic wedge to stereotactic radiotherapy.
- Effects of modifying topoisomerase II levels on cellular recovery from radiation damage.
- Breast cancer after mantle irradiation for Hodgkin's disease: correlation of clinical, pathologic, and molecular features including loss of heterozygosity at BRCA1 and BRCA2.
- Elevated cyclooxygenase-2 expression correlates with diminished survival in carcinoma of the cervix treated with radiotherapy.
- Electron arc irradiation of the postmastectomy chest wall with CT treatment planning: 20-year experience.
- Diminished survival in patients with inner versus outer quadrant breast cancers.
- Facilitation of radiotherapeutic error by computerized record and verify systems.
- Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) negatively affect overall survival in carcinoma of the cervix treated with radiotherapy.
- The role of serum and serum components in the merocyanine 540-sensitized photoinactivation of K562 leukemia cells.
- Rapid involution and mobility of carcinoma of the cervix.
- Cyclooxygenase-2 expression correlates with diminished survival in invasive breast cancer treated with mastectomy and radiotherapy.
- Expression of HER2neu (c-erbB-2) and epidermal growth factor receptor in cervical cancer: prognostic correlation with clinical characteristics, and comparison of manual and automated imaging analysis.
- Does radiotherapy around the time of pregnancy for Hodgkin's disease modify the risk of breast cancer?
- Time interval to the development of breast carcinoma after treatment for Hodgkin disease.
- Is simulation necessary for each high-dose-rate tandem and ovoid insertion in carcinoma of the cervix?
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