Beschreibung
Autorenporträt
Professor Michael Zelefsky is a recognized international authority in the treatment of prostate cancer with radiotherapy. He is currently Vice Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Chief of the Brachytherapy Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He also serves as a leader of the Genito-urinary Disease Management Team at Memorial Sloan Kettering and has been instrumental in the development of novel radiation techniques that have been adopted worldwide, including IMRT, IGRT, and intraoperative adaptive brachytherapy treatment planning. Professor Zelefsky has published more than 300 publications as well as chapters and textbooks. He is currently exploring approaches using targeted biologic agents concurrently with hypofractionated stereotactic radiosurgery for high-risk disease as well as the implementation of novel brachytherapy techniques to improve the precision of brachytherapy in the treatment of prostate cancers. Dr. Zelefsky is the Editor inChief of Brachytherapy, the premier journal in the world for articles devoted to the use of brachytherapy in the treatment of cancer.
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Springer Verlag GmbH
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69121 Heidelberg
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