Department / Division:
Radiation Oncology / Radiation Oncology

Address:
DUMC 3085
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-660-2100

Office Telephone:
919-668-7342

Fax Telephone:
919-668-7345

• MD, State University of New York, 1961

• Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Affiliated Hospitals (New Hampshire), 1961-1963

• Hematology/Oncology, Yale-New Haven Hospital (Connecticut), 1965-1967
• Radiation Oncology, Yale-New Haven Hospital (Connecticut), 1967-1969

Clinical Interests:
Malignant lymphomas, breast cancer, sarcomas, head and neck cancer, hyperthermia

Research Interests:
Clinical hyperthermia
Combined modality therapy of malignant lymphomas
Decision analysis in breast carcinoma

Representative Publications:
Wu JJ, Prosnitz LR. The role of adjuvant radiation therapy for stage III-IV Hodgkin's disease. Seminars in Radiation Oncology, in press, 1996. (1996)

Prosnitz LR, Wu JJ, Yahalom J. The case for adjuvant radiation therapy in advanced Hodgkin's disease. Cancer Investigations, in press, 1996. (1996)

Doria R, Holford T, Farber LR, Prosnitz LR, Cooper DL. Second solid malignancies after combined modality therapy for Hodgkin's disease. J Clin Oncol 13(8):2016-2022, 1995. (1995)

Brizel DM, Rosener GL, Prosnitz LR, Dewhirst MW. Patterns and variability of tumor oxygenation in human soft tissue sarcomas, cervical carcinomas, and lymph node metastases. Int J Rad Onc Biol Phys 32(4):1121-1125, 1995. (1995)

King, S.C., Reinan, R.J., Prosnitz, L.R. The prognostic importance of restaging gallium scans following induction chemotherapy for advanced Hodgkin's disease. Journal of Clinical Oncology 12(2): 306-311, 1994. (1994)