Dr. Arnold Herskovic, M.D.

Expert Publications

• Intracranial metastatic disease rarely involves the pituitary: retrospective analysis of 935 metastases in 155 patients and review of the literature.
• Cognitive Sparing during the Administration of Whole Brain Radiotherapy and Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation: Current Concepts and Approaches.
• Sparing of the hippocampus and limbic circuit during whole brain radiation therapy: A dosimetric study using helical tomotherapy.
• Preservation of function in the treatment of cancer of the anus.
• Elective brain irradiation for small cell anaplastic lung cancer.
• Cisplatin and etoposide before definitive radiation therapy for inoperable squamous carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, and large cell carcinoma of the lung: a phase I-II study of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.
• Practical aspects of transmission cord blocks in radiotherapy.
• Transmission blocks: clinical and biological rationales.
• Dosimetry of rotational photon fields with gravity-oriented eye blocks.
• Hyperthermia in cancer treatment: current and future prospects.
• Diagnosis and treatment of primary extrahepatic bile duct tumors.
• Phase I/II study of treatment of locally advanced (T3/T4) non-oat cell lung cancer with concomitant boost radiotherapy by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG 83-12): long-term results.

Media Releases

Get to know Radiation Oncologist Dr. Arnold Herskovic, who serves patients in Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Herskovic is a radiation oncologist working within the Department of Radiation Oncology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He treats patients diagnosed with cancer using radiation therapy that targets cancerous cells.

Holding an academic title, he serves as an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Rush Medical College.

Back in 1969, Dr. Herskovic graduated with his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He then went on to perform his internship in internal medicine at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn in 1970, his residency in diagnostic radiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in 1972, and his residency in radiation oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1974.

With over five decades of experience, he is board-certified in therapeutic radiology by the American Board of Radiology (ABR). The mission of the ABR is to serve patients, the public, and the medical profession by certifying that its diplomates have acquired, demonstrated, and maintained a requisite standard of knowledge, skill, and understanding essential to the safe and competent practice of diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, and medical physics.

Licensed to practice medicine in Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, and Indiana, Dr. Herskovic is affiliated with West Suburban Medical Center and Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers.

Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves the controlled use of radiation to treat cancer. It is one of the three primary specialties, the other two being surgical and medical oncology, involved in the treatment of cancer. A radiation oncologist is a specialist physician who uses ionizing radiation in the treatment of cancer.

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