Dr. William Davenport Powlis M.D.
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
101 Columbian St Radiation Oncology South Weymouth MA, 02190About
Dr. William Powlis practices Radiation Oncology in South Weymouth, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Powlis 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
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1973
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A randomized trial of accelerated hyperfractionated radiation therapy and bis-chloroethyl nitrosourea for malignant glioma. A preliminary report of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 83-02.
- Evaluation of multileaf collimator design for a photon beam.
- Semi-automated radiotherapy treatment planning with a mathematical model to satisfy treatment goals.
- Portal radiographs: digital enhancement of contrast.
- Treatment of patients with "minimal" stage IIIA Hodgkin's disease.
- Hyperfractionated radiation therapy and bis-chlorethyl nitrosourea in the treatment of malignant glioma--possible advantage observed at 72.0 Gy in 1.2 Gy B.I.D. fractions: report of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Protocol 8302.
- Initiation of multi-leaf collimator conformal radiation therapy.
Awards
- 2012 Best Doctors
Treatments
- Head And Neck Cancer, Lymphoma
Fellowships
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Medical Oncology 1978
- Harvard Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, Radiation Oncology 1980
- Harvard Radiation Oncology, Fellow:Radiation Oncology 1978
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