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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
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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.
Dr. Edward Gus Shaw MD's Practice location
UCSF Medical Center San Francisco
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