Dr. Paul W Sperduto MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
490 S Maple St # 117 Waconia MN, 55387About
Dr. Paul Sperduto practices Radiation Oncology in Waconia, MN. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Sperduto 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
Duke University School of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A review of stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of brain metastases.
- A new prognostic index and comparison to three other indices for patients with brain metastases: an analysis of 1,960 patients in the RTOG database.
- What is your patient's GPA and why does it matter? Managing brain metastases and the cost of hope.
- In reply to Robins et al.
- Radiobiological basis of SBRT and SRS.
- Secondary analysis of RTOG 9508, a phase 3 randomized trial of whole-brain
- A hypothesis: indirect cell death in the radiosurgery era.
- Indirect Tumor Cell Death After High-Dose Hypofractionated Irradiation: Implications for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic Radiation Surgery.
- Integrating bevacizumab and radiation treatment of brain metastasis: is there
- Knee flexion contractures in myelodysplasia.
- Neuropsychological effects of cranial radiation: current knowledge and future directions.
- The in vitro radiosensitization of human glioblastoma with pentoxifylline.
- Radiosurgery, cost-effectiveness, gold standards, the scientific method, cavalier cowboys, and the cost of hope.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery in pediatric patients.
- Multifocal inflammatory leukoencephalopathy after fluorouracil and levamisole therapy for colon cancer.
Treatments
- Prostate Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Brain Tumor
- Lung Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Multiple Myeloma
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Aerolase® Technologies
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