Dr. Joshua D. Lawson MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
2728 Sunset Blvd Suite 402 West Columbia SC, 29169About
Dr. Joshua Lawson practices Radiation Oncology in West Columbia, SC. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Lawson 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.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chemoradiotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers.
- Quantification of dosimetric impact of implementation of on-board imaging (OBI) for IMRT treatment of head-and-neck malignancies.
- Frequency of esophageal stenosis after simultaneous modulated accelerated radiation therapy and chemotherapy for head and neck cancer.
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy for retroperitoneal sarcoma: a case for dose escalation and organ at risk toxicity reduction.
- Early clinical results from chemoradiation with 5-fluorouracil and oxaliplatin for locally advanced rectal cancer.
- Early clinical experience with kilovoltage image-guided radiation therapy for interfraction motion management.
- Multileaf collimator-based linear accelerator radiosurgery: five-year efficiency analysis.
- Percutaneous feeding tubes in patients with head and neck cancer: rethinking prophylactic placement for patients undergoing chemoradiation.
- Dosimetric comparison of intensity-modulated radiosurgery and helical tomotherapy for the treatment of multiple intracranial metastases.
- Frame-less and mask-less cranial stereotactic radiosurgery: a feasibility study.
- Evaluation of automatic atlas-based lymph node segmentation for head-and-neck cancer.
- Markerless lung tumor tracking and trajectory reconstruction using rotational cone-beam projections: a feasibility study.
- Novel use of the Contura for high dose rate cranial brachytherapy.
- A survey of stereotactic body radiotherapy use in the United States.
- Leptomeningeal Metastasis from Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma: Case Report and Literature Review.
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