Dr. Richard C Zellars MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
1800 Orleans St Baltimore MD, 21287About
Dr. Richard Zellars practices Radiation Oncology in Baltimore, MD. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Zellars 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1991
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prostate position late in the course of external beam therapy: patterns and predictors.
- Soft tissue sarcoma of the vulva: A clinical study.
- FIGO stage IIIC endometrial carcinoma: resection of macroscopic nodal disease and other determinants of survival.
- Comparison of FDG-PET/CT and CT for delineation of lumpectomy cavity for partial breast irradiation.
- Deemphasize dogma: consider the local control-overall survival link.
- Postmastectomy radiation and partial breast irradiation.
- Early cardiac perfusion defects after left-sided radiation therapy for breast cancer: is there a volume response?
- Treatment Minimization in Older Patients With Early-Stage Breast Cancer.
- Prevention of fluorodeoxyuridine-induced cytotoxicity and DNA damage in HT29 colon carcinoma cells by conditional expression of wild-type p53 phenotype.
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