Dr. Leonard L Gunderson M.D.
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
5779 E Mayo Blvd Phoenix AZ, 85054About
Dr. Leonard Gunderson practices Radiation Oncology in Phoenix, AZ. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Gunderson 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 Ky Coll of Med, Lexington Ky 1969
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Indications for and results of combined modality treatment of colorectal cancer.
- Combined irradiation and surgery for rectal and sigmoid carcinoma.
- Energy and applicator size and shape used in over 800 intraoperative electron beam therapy fields.
- Radiation therapy: results and future possibilities.
- Outcomes of patients receiving radiation for carcinoma of the rectum. Results of the 1988-1989 patterns of care study.
- Results of irradiation or chemoirradiation for primary unresectable, locally recurrent, or grossly incomplete resection of gastric adenocarcinoma.
- Results of irradiation or chemoirradiation following resection of gastric adenocarcinoma.
- Use of intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy in the management of retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcomas.
- Adjuvant therapy in rectal cancer: analysis of stage, sex, and local control--final report of intergroup 0114.
- Gastric cancer--patterns of relapse after surgical resection.
- Radiation treatment parameters in the adjuvant postoperative therapy of gastric cancer.
- Intraoperative electron radiotherapy as a component of salvage therapy for patients with colorectal cancer and advanced nodal metastases.
- Principles of radiation therapy in the treatment of bone metastases.
- Future directions in intraoperative radiation therapy.
- Palliative treatment of rectal cancer: is radiotherapy alone a good option?
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