Dr. Edward Gus Shaw MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
505 Parnassus Ave # M-1202 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Edward Shaw practices Radiation Oncology in San Francisco, CA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Shaw 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
Rush Med Coll of Rush Univ, Chicago Il 1983
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Supportive use of megestrol acetate (Megace) with head/neck and lung cancer patients receiving radiation therapy.
- Phase II trial of procarbazine, lomustine, and vincristine as initial therapy for patients with low-grade oligodendroglioma or oligoastrocytoma: efficacy and associations with chromosomal abnormalities.
- The evolving role of biological imaging in stereotactic radiosurgery.
- The neurocognitive effects of radiation in adult low-grade glioma patients.
- Effects of radiotherapy on cognitive function in patients with low-grade glioma measured by the folstein mini-mental state examination.
- Presidential symposium on low-grade glioma.
- Adult patients with supratentorial pilocytic astrocytomas: a prospective multicenter clinical trial.
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained: Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly.
- Importance of baseline mini-mental state examination as a prognostic factor for patients with low-grade glioma.
- Low-grade glioma: current management and controversies.
- The management of radiation-induced brain injury.
- Results of a phase II trial of the GliaSite radiation therapy system for the treatment of newly diagnosed, resected single brain metastases.
- Managing the cognitive effects of brain tumor radiation therapy.
- Does dose rate affect efficacy? The outcomes of 256 gamma knife surgery procedures for trigeminal neuralgia and other types of facial pain as they relate to the half-life of cobalt.
- Prognostic factors for survival in adult patients with recurrent glioma enrolled onto the new approaches to brain tumor therapy CNS consortium phase I and II clinical trials.
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