Dr. Azhar M Awan MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527About
Dr. Azhar Awan practices Radiation Oncology in Willowbrook, IL. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Awan 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
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1981
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Television and news print media are effective in recruiting potential participants in a prostate cancer chemoprevention trial.
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome. A report of two cases with uveomeningoencephalic symptoms.
- Eyelid arteriovenous aneurysm.
- Racial differences in prostate-specific antigen levels in patients with local-regional prostate cancer.
- Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis and enterovirus 70 in Kenya.
- Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis and enterovirus 70 in Kenya.
- Retinal photography in diabetes. (A study of 115 diabetic patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi.).
- Hypertensive retinopathy. A prospective hospital study of 100 hypertensive Kenyan Africans.
- The need for an eye bank in Kenya.
- [A case of internal ophthalmomyiasis in Kenya (author's transl)].
- Diabetic retinopathy in Kenya.
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