Radiation Oncology in Florida

Services

Making sure all questions are answered is a hallmark of the services Radiation Oncology team members provide.

In the Department of Radiation Oncology, patients with cancer and certain other diseases are treated through the use of ionizing radiation. A treatment program is developed, and the patient's status is evaluated regularly during therapy.

Services include radiation oncology consultations and follow-up, treatment with external beam radiation and treatment with radioactive sources. The department offers more than 70 cancer clinical studies for brain, breast, head and neck, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecologic and lung cancers. Protocols also are available for melanoma and sarcoma.

Services and procedures include:

• Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
• Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy
• Stereotactic radiosurgery for neurological abnormalities (in conjunction with Neurosurgery)
• Brachytherapy (radioactive seed implants) and intravascular brachytherapy
  • Radioactive implants to treat prostate cancer (in conjunction with Urology)
• State-of-the-art linear accelerators
• Multidisciplinary treatment combining radiation with surgery and chemotherapy
• Radiolabeled antibodies for ovarian and head/neck cancer
• Whole-body radiation in conjunction with the bone marrow transplant program
• Using Grenz rays to treat benign skin conditions

Radiation therapy plays an important role in treating many diseases, including:

• Anal canal cancer
• Bile duct (biliary) cancer
• Bladder cancer
• Brain tumors
• Breast cancer
• Cavernous malformations
• Colon cancer
• Esophageal cancers
• Gynecologic cancers, including ovarian, cervical and endometrial (uterine)
  • Radiation treatments for gynecologic cancers including cervical and endometrial cancers (in conjunction with Gynecologic Oncology)
• Head and neck cancers
• Kidney cancer
• Liver cancer
• Lung cancer (small cell and non-small cell) with or without endobronchial tumor obstruction (in conjunction with Pulmonary Medicine and Hematology/Oncology)
• Lymphoma
• Melanoma
• Neurological malignancies, including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) or high-grade glioma, central nervous system lymphoma and pituitary tumors
• Ocular melanoma (combined program with Ophthalmology)
• Pancreatic cancer (operable and non-operable)
• Prostate cancer
  • Radioactive implants to treat prostate cancer (in conjunction with the Department of Urology)
• Skin cancer
• Rectal cancer
• Soft-tissue sarcomas (in conjunction with Orthopedic Surgery)
• Thyroid cancer