Larry L Kestin
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
70 Fulton St Pontiac MI, 48341About
Dr. Larry Kestin practices Radiation Oncology in Royal Oak, MI. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Kestin 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
Univ of Ks Sch of Med, Kansas City Ks 1995
University of Wales in Great Britain 1995
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prostatectomy, external beam radiation therapy, or brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer.
- Treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ.
- Pathologic and technical considerations in the treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast with lumpectomy and radiation therapy.
- The importance of adequate follow-up in defining treatment success after external beam irradiation for prostate cancer.
- Impact of young age on outcome in patients with ductal carcinoma-in-situ treated with breast-conserving therapy.
- Use of conformal high-dose rate brachytherapy for management of patients with prostate cancer: optimizing dose escalation.
- The correlation of serial prostate specific antigen measurements with clinical outcome after external beam radiation therapy of patients for prostate carcinoma.
- Differences in the pathologic features of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast based on patient age.
- Defining a dose-response relationship with radiotherapy for prostate cancer: is more really better?
- Potential for reduced toxicity and dose escalation in the treatment of inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer: a comparison of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), 3D conformal radiation, and elective nodal irradiation.
- Use of pathologic factors to assist in establishing adequacy of excision before radiotherapy in patients treated with breast-conserving therapy.
- Molecular clonality relationships in initial carcinomas, ipsilateral breast
- Molecular clonality determination of ipsilateral recurrence of invasive breast carcinomas after breast-conserving therapy: comparison with clinical and biologic factors.
- Clinicopathologic analysis of extracapsular extension in prostate cancer: should the clinical target volume be expanded posterolaterally to account for microscopic extension?
- Unification of a common biochemical failure definition for prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy or external beam radiotherapy with or without androgen deprivation.
Treatments
- Prostate Cancer
- Lung Cancer
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