Dr. Charles Walter Scarantino MD, PHD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
4420 Lake Boone Trl Raleigh NC, 27607About
Dr. Charles Scarantino practices Radiation Oncology in Raleigh, NC. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Scarantino 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
Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center 1973
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Making a meaningful difference for the patient.
- The impact of concurrent granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor on radiation-induced mucositis in head and neck cancer patients: a double-blind placebo-controlled prospective phase III study by Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 9901.
- The Dose Verification System (DVS) for cancer patients receiving radiation therapy.
- Rural outreach breast cancer detection program. A demographic report.
- Lonidamine in head and neck cancer: an overview.
- Implications of nuclear diameter in small cell lung carcinoma.
- Overlap of nuclear diameters in lung cancer cells.
- Implication of nuclear morphological characteristics in small cell lung cancer.
- Morphometric and morphologic evaluations in stage III non-small cell lung cancers. Prognostic significance of quantitative assessment of infiltrating lymphoid cells.
- The bone marrow organ: the critical structure in radiation-drug interaction. Sir Stanford Cade Memorial lecture.
- The bone marrow organ: the critical structure in radiation-drug interaction. Sir Stanford Cade Memorial lecture.
- Residual adriamycin (AdR)-induced hematopoietic damage: a consideration for subsequent radiotherapy.
- Haemopoietic modulation in tumour-bearing animals: enhanced progenitor-cell production in femoral marrow.
- Effect of prolonged expansion of marrow progenitor compartments following doxorubicin (ADR) on subsequent radiation tolerance.
- Half-body and local chest irradiation as consolidation following response to standard induction chemotherapy for disseminated small cell lung cancer: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group pilot report.
Awards
- Fellow American Society of Therapeutic Radiation O, American Society o 2007
Treatments
- Breast Cancer
Professional Memberships
- Member American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology
- Member Wake County Medical Society
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