Radiation Oncology in Arizona

Services

The radiation oncologist's main role is to design a customized treatment plan to best treat a malignancy.

Radiation Oncology consulting services and treatment are available for the following disease sites:

• Adrenal cancer
• Ameloblastoma
• Brain or spinal cord cancer (neurological)
• Breast cancer (Breast Clinic)
• Carcinoid tumors
• Carcinoma of unknown origin
• Desmoid tumors
• Gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies
  • Anal cancer
  • Carcinoid tumors
  • Colon cancer
  • Esophageal cancer
  • Gastric (stomach) cancer
  • Hepatobiliary cancer (liver, biliary tract)
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Rectal cancer
  • Small bowel cancer
• Genitourinary (GU) malignancies
  • Bladder cancer
  • Kidney cancer
  • Early stage prostate cancer (includes five personal stories of Mayo Clinic patients). Also see prostate cancer.
  • Testis cancer
• Germ cell tumors
• Gynecologic malignancies
  • Adnexal tumors
  • Cervical cancer
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Uterine (endometrial) cancer
  • Uterine sarcoma
  • Vaginal cancer
  • Vulvar cancer
• Head and neck malignancies
  • Craniopharnygiomas
  • Esthesioneuroblastoma
  • Larynx cancer
  • Nasopharynx cancer
  • Oral cavity cancer
  • Oropharynx cancer
  • Soft palate cancer
  • Tonsil cancer
• Lung cancer
• Lymphoma (Hodgkin, Non-Hodgkins)
• Melanoma
• Sarcomas (extremity, retroperitoneal, Kaposi's sarcoma)
• Skin cancer (basal cell, squamous)
• Solitary fibrous tumors

Consulting services and treatment are available for the following specialized services:

• Brachytherapy
• External beam radiation (EBRT) using state-of-the-art linear accelerators
• Intraoperative radiation (IORT) (electrons, brachytherapy)
• Intensity modulated radiation (IMRT)
• Quality of life evaluations and protocols
• Stereotactic radiosurgery
• Three-dimensional (3-D) conformal radiation therapy
• Total body irradiation (TBI) (bone marrow transplant patients)

Sub-specialized Multi-disciplinary Treatment Philosophy and Approach

Mayo radiation oncologists work in collaboration with physicians in other specialties (surgery, medical oncology, internal medicine, pathology, diagnostic radiology) in the evaluation and care of each patient with cancer. The Mayo Clinic approach has traditionally been comprehensive and interdisciplinary. This teamwork is especially important in the successful management of cancer.

For each disease-site, a multi-disciplinary team of physicians has been organized into working groups at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center – Scottsdale. The multi-disciplinary teams include the following disease-sites: brain/neurological, breast, gastrointestinal [esophagus, stomach, pancreas, hepatobiliary, colorectum, anus], genitourinary [prostate, bladder, kidney, testis], gynecologic [cervix, uterus, ovary, vulva], lung, lymphoma/leukemia, melanoma/skin and sarcoma [extremity, retroperitoneal]. Each disease-site team has individual autonomy, function and goals. Common goals include some of the following: develop diagnostic and treatment algorithms/guidelines for patient evaluation and care, evaluate and develop clinical research protocols, determine whether multi-disciplinary clinics would be of value.

Radiation Oncologists are members of each of the disease-site teams. Each of the six board-certified Radiation Oncology physicians at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale has 2-3 areas of major disease-site interest, thus resulting in sub-specialization (see List of Doctors and Clinical Publications). This sub-specialization offers patients the potential of a greater degree of experience and knowledge with regard to both the evaluation and delivery of radiation as a component of treatment for their specific type of cancer.