Professor, Radiation Oncology-Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Radiation Oncology
Dr. Alphonse G. Taghian, MD
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Alphonse Taghian practices Radiation Oncology. He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Boston Magazine", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Super Doctor". Alphonse Taghian is a published physician as well. He has 84 publications published. The latest was: Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain in HER-2 + Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Anthracyclines and Trastuzumab Who Develop Cardiotoxicity Is Associated with... He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Impact of Ipsilateral Blood Draws, Injections, Blood Pressure Measurements, and Air Travel on the Risk of Lymphedema for Patients Treated for Breast Cancer.
- Long-term outcomes among breast Cancer patients with extensive regional lymph node involvement: implications for locoregional management.
- Is a higher boost dose of radiation necessary after breast-conserving therapy for patients with breast Cancer with final close or positive margins?
- The impact of breast Cancer-related lymphedema on the ability to perform upper extremity activities of daily living.
- Outcome following local-regional recurrence in women with early-stage breast Cancer: impact of biologic subtype.
- Radiation therapy risk factors for development of lymphedema in patients treated with regional lymph node irradiation for breast Cancer.
- Immediate Implant Reconstruction Is Associated With a Reduced Risk of Lymphedema Compared to Mastectomy Alone: A Prospective Cohort Study.
- Deep inspiration breath-hold technique in left-sided breast Cancer radiation therapy: Evaluating cardiac contact distance as a predictor of cardiac exposure for patien...
- Blocking the formation of radiation-induced breast Cancer stem cells.
- The impact of isolated tumor cells on loco-regional recurrence in breast Cancer patients treated with breast-conserving treatment or mastectomy without post-mastectomy...
- Long-Term Cosmetic Outcomes and Toxicities of Proton Beam Therapy Compared With Photon-Based 3-Dimensional Conformal Accelerated Partial-Breast Irradiation: A Phase 1 ...
- The impact of radiation therapy on the risk of lymphedema after treatment for breast Cancer: a prospective cohort study.
- Risk of lymphedema after mastectomy: potential benefit of applying ACOSOG Z0011 protocol to mastectomy patients.
- Is Biological Subtype Prognostic of Locoregional Recurrence Risk in Women With pT1-2N0 Breast Cancer Treated With Mastectomy?
- Clinical Outcome of Isolated Locoregional Recurrence in Patients With Breast Cancer According to Their Primary Local Treatment.
- Lymphedema following treatment for breast Cancer: a new approach to an old problem.
- Impact of body mass index and weight fluctuation on lymphedema risk in patients treated for breast Cancer.
- Risk of Local Failure in Breast Cancer Patients With Lobular Carcinoma In Situ at the Final Surgical Margins: Is Re-excision Necessary?
- Pathologic Response and Long-Term Follow-up in Breast Cancer Patients Treated With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Comparison Between Classifications and Their Practical A...
- Defining a threshold for intervention in breast Cancer-related lymphedema: what level of arm volume increase predicts progression?
- Cording following treatment for breast Cancer.
- Localized Therapy for Male Breast Cancer: Functional Advantages With Comparable Outcomes Using Breast Conservation.
- A novel, validated method to quantify breast Cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) following bilateral breast surgery.
- Residual Lymph Node Disease After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Predicts an Increased Risk of Lymphedema in Node-Positive Breast Cancer Patients.
- Proton Therapy for Breast Cancer After Mastectomy: Early Outcomes of a Prospective Clinical Trial.
- Application of ACOSOG Z0011 Criteria Reduces Perioperative Costs.
- Erratum to: Comparison of relative versus absolute arm size change as criteria for quantifying breast Cancer-related lymphedema: the flaws in current studies and need ...
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy at the time of mastectomy does not increase the risk of lymphedema: implications for prophylactic surgery.
- In Reply to Hannoun-Levi et al.
- A Voluntary Breath-Hold Treatment Technique for the Left Breast With Unfavorable Cardiac Anatomy Using Surface Imaging.
- Cost comparison of radiation treatment options after lumpectomy for breast Cancer.
- Comparison of relative versus absolute arm size change as criteria for quantifying breast Cancer-related lymphedema: the flaws in current studies and need for universa...
- External Beam Accelerated Partial-Breast Irradiation Using 32 Gy in 8 Twice-Daily Fractions: 5-Year Results of a Prospective Study.
- Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation with Low-Dose-Rate Interstitial Implant Brachytherapy After Wide Local Excision: 12-Year Outcomes from a Prospective Trial.
- Age, breast Cancer subtype approximation, and local recurrence after breast-conserving therapy.
- Basal Subtype of Invasive Breast Cancer is Associated with a Higher Risk of True Recurrence After Conventional Breast-Conserving Therapy.
- Management of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Breast: A Rare Cancer Network Study.
- Standardized method for quantification of developing lymphedema in patients treated for breast Cancer.
- Patterns and risk factors of locoregional recurrence in T1-T2 node negative breast Cancer patients treated with mastectomy: implications for postmastectomy radiotherapy.
- Use of tamoxifen with postsurgical irradiation may improve survival in estrogen and progesterone receptor-positive male breast Cancer.
- Does lymphovascular invasion predict regional nodal failure in breast Cancer patients with zero to three positive lymph nodes treated with conserving surgery and radio...
- Early Side Effects of Three-Dimensional Conformal External Beam Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation to a Total Dose of 40 Gy in One Week (a Phase II Trial).
- Nanoparticle-enhanced MRI to evaluate radiation delivery to the regional lymphatics for patients with breast Cancer.
- Fractionation for Whole Breast Irradiation: An American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Evidence-Based Guideline.
- The association between biological subtype and isolated regional nodal failure after Breast-conserving therapy.
- Validation of a web-based predictive nomogram for ipsilateral Breast tumor recurrence after Breast conserving therapy.
- Clinical experience with image-guided radiotherapy in an accelerated partial Breast intensity-modulated radiotherapy protocol: in regard to Leonard CE et al. (Int J Ra...
- Chest wall radiotherapy: middle ground for treatment of patients with one to three positive lymph nodes after mastectomy.
- Prognostic factors for local control after Breast conservation: does margin status still matter?
- Breast conservation therapy for patients with locally advanced breast Cancer.
- Outcome of multiple-wire localization for larger breast Cancers: do multiple wires translate into additional imaging, biopsies, and recurrences?
- Lung dose-volume parameters and the risk of pneumonitis for patients treated with accelerated partial-Breast irradiation using three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy.
- Utility of DNA repair protein foci for the detection of putative BRCA1 pathway defects in breast Cancer biopsies.
- Partial-breast irradiation versus whole-breast irradiation for early-stage breast cancer: a cost-effectiveness Analysis.
- Counterpoint: Conformal external beam for accelerated partial Breast irradiation.
- Variability of target and normal structure delineation for breast Cancer radiotherapy: an RTOG Multi-Institutional and Multiobserver Study.
- Breast Cancer after treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma: risk factors that really matter.
- Breast Cancer after treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma: general review.
- Tangential radiotherapy without axillary surgery in early-stage breast Cancer: results of a prospective trial.
- Outcomes of multiple wire localization for larger breast Cancers: when can mastectomy be avoided?
- 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.
- Comparison of target registration errors for multiple image-guided techniques in accelerated partial Breast irradiation.
- Partial breast irradiation versus whole breast radiotherapy for early-stage breast cancer: a decision Analysis.
- Is it time to use protons for breast Cancer?
- Accelerated partial-Breast irradiation using proton beams: initial clinical experience.
- Low local recurrence rate without postmastectomy radiation in node-negative breast Cancer patients with tumors 5 cm and larger.
- Low locoregional recurrence rate among node-negative breast Cancer patients with tumors 5 cm or larger treated by mastectomy, with or without adjuvant systemic therapy...
- Accelerated partial Breast irradiation using proton beams: Initial dosimetric experience.
- Dosimetric comparison of proton and photon three-dimensional, conformal, external beam accelerated partial Breast irradiation techniques.
- Dosimetric comparison of two different three-dimensional conformal external beam accelerated partial Breast irradiation techniques.
- Initial dosimetric experience using simple three-dimensional conformal external-beam accelerated partial-Breast irradiation.
- Clinical experience with a 3D surface patient setup System for alignment of partial-breast irradiation patients.
- Prospective evaluation of concurrent paclitaxel and radiation therapy after adjuvant doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide chemotherapy for Stage II or III breast Cancer.
- Update on accelerated partial-Breast irradiation.
- Locoregional recurrence rates and prognostic factors for failure in node-negative patients treated with mastectomy: implications for postmastectomy radiation.
- Is a reduction in radiation lung volume and dose necessary with paclitaxel chemotherapy for node-positive breast Cancer?
- Paclitaxel decreases the interstitial fluid pressure and improves oxygenation in breast Cancers in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy: clinical implications.
- Dose-volume Analysis of radiotherapy for T1N0 invasive breast cancer treated by local excision and partial breast irradiation by low-dose-rate interstitial implant.
- Risk of lymphedema after regional nodal irradiation with Breast conservation therapy.
- Radiotherapy and Breast reconstruction: complications and cosmesis with TRAM versus tissue expander/implant.
- Circulating tumor cells as predictors of response and failure in breast Cancer patients treated with preoperative chemotherapy.
- Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain in HER-2 + Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Anthracyclines and Trastuzumab Who Develop Cardiotoxicity Is Associated with...
Schools
Alexandria University
Alexandria University Hospital
Alexis Vautrin Canc Center
Institut Gustave Roussy
Mass Genl Hospital
Conditions Treated
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Anemia
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- Oncology
- Radiation Oncology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Boston Magazine
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
Education
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Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Emerson Hospital -
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1902887417 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | TAGHIAN |
| First Name Of The Provider | ALPHONSE |
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