Dr. John A Pinkston MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
701 Princeton Ave SW Birmingham AL, 35211About
Dr. John Pinkston practices Radiation Oncology in Birmingham, AL. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Pinkston 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 Miami Sch of Med, Miami Fl 1968
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Incidence rates of salivary gland tumors: results from a population-based study.
- National Cancer Data Base report on cancer of the head and neck: acinic cell carcinoma.
- Hyperthermia in the treatment of cancer.
- Merkle cell carcinoma report of a case and possible role for adjuvant radiotherapy.
- Types of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and methods of treatment.
- Malignant neoplasms among atomic bomb survivors following radiation therapy.
- Postirradiation sarcoma (malignant fibrous histiocytoma) following cervix cancer.
- Determination of human peripheral blood mononuclear cell-mediated cytotoxicity by an agarose plate method: spontaneous release of a soluble cytotoxic factor against SRBC targets from monocytes.
- Cancer of the head and neck in atomic bomb survivors: Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1957-1976.
- Cigarette smoking and Warthin's tumor.
- ABO blood groups and salivary gland tumors (Alabama, United States).
- Radiation therapy among atomic bomb survivors, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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