Dr. Rinaa S Punglia MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
44 Binney St Dana Farber Cancer Institute Ctr For Outcomes And Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Rinaa Punglia practices Radiation Oncology in Boston, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Punglia 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1998
Harvard Medical School 1998
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Integrating surgery and radiotherapy to reduce toxicity while maintaining local control for breast cancer: a fine balance.
- Effect of verification bias on screening for prostate cancer by measurement of prostate-specific antigen.
- Operating characteristics of prostate-specific antigen and verification bias.
- Impact of age, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and cancer on prostate-specific antigen level.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of computerized tomography in the routine follow-up of patients after primary treatment for Hodgkin's disease.
- Variability among breast radiation oncologists in delineation of the postsurgical lumpectomy cavity.
- Partial breast irradiation versus whole breast radiotherapy for early-stage breast cancer: a decision analysis.
- Influence of year of diagnosis, patient age, and sociodemographic status on recommending adjuvant radiation treatment for stage I testicular seminoma.
- Cost effectiveness and screening interval of lipid screening in Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors.
- Cost-effectiveness of CT and PET-CT for determining the need for adjuvant neck dissection in locally advanced head and neck cancer.
- Using lifetime risk estimates to recommend magnetic resonance imaging screening for breast cancer survivors.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of stereotactic body radiotherapy and radiofrequency ablation for medically inoperable, early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.
- Effect of very small tumor size on cancer-specific mortality in node-positive breast cancer.
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Treatments
- Breast Cancer
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