Dr. Alphonse G Taghian MD
Radiation Oncologist | Radiation Oncology
100 Blossom St Cox 1 Anesthesia Associate Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Alphonse Taghian practices Radiation Oncology in Boston, MA. Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that involves treating cancer with radiation. Dr. Taghian 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
University of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of radiation therapy for primary breast cancer.
- Locoregional recurrence rates and prognostic factors for failure in node-negative patients treated with mastectomy: implications for postmastectomy radiation.
- Tubular carcinoma of the breast: a retrospective analysis and review of the literature.
- Update on accelerated partial-breast irradiation.
- Dosimetric comparison of two different three-dimensional conformal external beam accelerated partial breast irradiation techniques.
- Dosimetric comparison of proton and photon three-dimensional, conformal, external beam accelerated partial breast irradiation techniques.
- Low local recurrence rate without postmastectomy radiation in node-negative breast cancer patients with tumors 5 cm and larger.
- Accelerated partial-breast irradiation using proton beams: initial clinical experience.
- Partial-breast irradiation: towards a replacement for whole-breast irradiation?
- Is it time to use protons for breast cancer?
- Breast cancer subtype approximated by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER-2 is associated with local and distant recurrence after breast-conserving therapy.
- Nomogram for the prediction of having four or more involved nodes for sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancer.
- Lumpectomy and partial breast irradiation for early-stage breast cancer following mantle irradiation for Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Breast cancer after treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma: risk factors that really matter.
- Outcomes of multiple wire localization for larger breast cancers: when can mastectomy be avoided?
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Treatments
- Breast Cancer
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