Dr. Tracy A Balboni M.D., M.P.H.
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
44 Binney St Dana-Farber Cancer I Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Tracy Balboni practices Radiation Oncology in Boston, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Balboni 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.
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine- 2012
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology- 2008
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Racial differences in predictors of intensive end-of-life care in patients with advanced cancer.
- "If God wanted me yesterday, I wouldn't be here today": religious and spiritual themes in patients' experiences of advanced cancer.
- Incidence and treatment patterns in hospitalizations for malignant spinal cord compression in the United States, 1998-2006.
- "It depends": viewpoints of patients, physicians, and nurses on patient-practitioner prayer in the setting of advanced cancer.
- The relationship of spiritual concerns to the quality of life of advanced cancer patients: preliminary findings.
- The role of spirituality and religious coping in the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative radiation therapy.
- Barriers to the implementation of surveillance for stage I testicular seminoma.
- Palliative care and spiritual care: the crucial role of spiritual care in the care of patients with advanced illness.
- Addressing spirituality within the care of patients at the end of life: perspectives of patients with advanced cancer, oncologists, and oncology nurses.
- Why is spiritual care infrequent at the end of life? Spiritual care perceptions among patients, nurses, and physicians and the role of training.
- How radiation oncologists evaluate and incorporate life expectancy estimates into the treatment of palliative cancer patients: a survey-based study.
- Predicting life expectancy in patients with metastatic cancer receiving palliative radiotherapy: the TEACHH model.
- Nurse and physician barriers to spiritual care provision at the end of life.
- Examining Forms of Spiritual Care Provided in the Advanced Cancer Setting.
- Supportive and palliative radiation oncology service: impact of a dedicated service on palliative cancer care.
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Treatments
- Spinal Cancer, Palliative Care
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