Dr. Eric Mark Horwitz M.D.
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
333 Cottman Ave Fox Chase Cancer Cen Philadelphia PA, 19111About
Dr. Eric Horwitz practices Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia, PA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Horwitz 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
Albany Medical College - Union University 1992
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- In regard to Sherertz et al., IJROBP 2001; 51:1241-1245.
- Dose response in prostate cancer with 8-12 years' follow-up.
- Hypoxic prostate/muscle pO2 ratio predicts for biochemical failure in patients with prostate cancer: preliminary findings.
- Validation of a treatment policy for patients with prostate specific antigen failure after three-dimensional conformal prostate radiation therapy.
- Free prostate-specific antigen improves prostate cancer detection in a high-risk population of men with a normal total PSA and digitalrectal examination.
- Treatment of prostate cancer with regional lymph node (N1) metastasis.
- Mindless or mindful? Radiation oncologists' perspectives on the evolution of prostate cancer treatment.
- Modifying the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology definition of biochemical failure to minimize the influence of backdating in patients with prostate cancer treated with 3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy alone.
- Conformal radiotherapy with dose escalation appears safe and effective in localised prostate cancer.
- The Gleason score shift: score four and seven years ago.
- Positive prostate biopsy laterality and implications for staging.
- Biochemical failure as a determinant of distant metastasis and death in prostate cancer treated with radiotherapy.
- Does short-term androgen deprivation substitute for radiation dose in the treatment of high-risk prostate cancer?
- Incorporating clinical measurements of hypoxia into tumor local control modeling of prostate cancer: implications for the alpha/beta ratio.
- Radiation therapy dose escalation for prostate cancer: a rationale for IMRT.
Awards
- 2014 Philadelphia Magazine, Top Doctors 2014, Radiation Oncology
Treatments
- Prostate Cancer, (imrt), (igrt)
- Prostate Cancer
- Lung Cancer
Professional Memberships
- Member American Society for Radiation Oncology
- Member Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
- Member Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group American Medical Association
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