Dr. Jason A. Efstathiou MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston MA, 02114Rating
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Dr. Jason Efstathiou practices Radiation Oncology in Boston, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Efstathiou 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.
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transforming growth factor beta stimulation of colorectal cancer cell lines: type II receptor bypass and changes in adhesion molecule expression.
- Influence of body mass index on prostate-specific antigen failure after androgen suppression and radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer.
- Evaluation of the dosimetric impact of interfractional anatomical variations on prostate proton therapy using daily in-room CT images.
- Radiotherapy treatment planning for testicular seminoma.
- Multidisciplinary care and pursuit of active surveillance in low-risk prostate cancer.
- Postoperative radiation for prostate cancer.
- Prostate cancer: Proton therapy--revolutionary advance or diminishing returns?
- Patient-reported outcomes after 3-dimensional conformal, intensity-modulated, or proton beam radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer.
- Clinical controversies: proton therapy for prostate cancer.
- Proton beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer-is the hype (and the cost) justified?
- Maximizing the biological effect of proton dose delivered with scanned beams via inhomogeneous daily dose distributions.
- Multidisciplinary care and management selection in prostate cancer.
- Hypofractionated proton therapy for prostate cancer: dose delivery uncertainty due to interfractional motion.
- Summary of oral abstract session B: innovating to improve care quality.
- Models of care and NCCN guideline adherence in very-low-risk prostate cancer.
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