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Vinita Patanaphan, MD

Academic Title:

Clinical Associate Professor (Non-Adjunct Faculty)

Primary Appointment:

Radiation Oncology

Location:

Department of Radiation Oncology, Upper Chesapeake Hospital, 500 Upper Chesapeake Dr., Bel Air, MD 21014

Phone (Primary):

(443)-643-3352

Fax:

(443)-643-1521

Education and Training

  • Premedical Education - Faculty of Medical Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1967
  • M.D., Medical Education Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1971
  • Rotating Internship, Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, 1972
  • Resident in General Practitioner, Police General Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, 1974
  • Rotating Internship, Perth Amboy General Hospital, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 1975
  • Resident, Radiation Therapy, Department of Radiology, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 1978

Biosketch

At the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology practice at Upper Chesapeake Hospital in Bel Air, MD, Dr. Patanaphan sees a range of cancer patients evaluated for and treated with radiation. She is involved with the latest treatment technologies, including intensity-modulated radiation therapy with image guidance, stereotactic body radiation therapy, and IGRT, SBRT and stereotactic radiosurgery using the tomotherapy linear accelerator. She has special expertise in brachytherapy, breast cancer, and gastrointestinal cancer. She has experience with high-dose-rate brachytherapy using in gynecologic cancers, as well as with both intracavitary and interstitial radioactive implants in preloaded or afterloaded applications. She has completed more than 300 intracavitary applications, more than 150 interstitial implants using radium needles or 192Ir ribbons in gynecologic, breast, and colon cancers, as well as many prostate implants with 125I seeds.

Research/Clinical Keywords

Radiation treatment, genitourinary cancers, brachytherapy, breast cancer, prostate cancer.

Highlighted Publications

Patanaphan V, Salazar OM. Colorectal cancer: metastatic patterns andprognosis. South Med J. 1993 Jan;86(1):38-41. PubMed PMID: 8420014.

Patanaphan V, Salazar OM, Risco R. Breast cancer: metastatic patterns andtheir prognosis. South Med J. 1988 Sep;81(9):1109-12. PubMed PMID: 3420442.

Patanaphan V, Salazar OM, Slawson RG, Sewchand W. A phase I/II trial ofwhole-abdominal plus pelvic irradiation for Astler-Coller stage beta 2, C colorectal cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 1988 Feb;11(1):60-5. PubMed PMID: 3277376.

Patanaphan V, Poussin-Rosillo H, Villa Santa U, Salazar OM. Cancer of uterine cervix stage IB. Treatment results and prognostic factors. Cancer. 1986 Feb15;57(4):866-70. PubMed PMID: 3943017.

Patanaphan V, Hafiz MA, Salazar OM. Metastatic leiomyosarcoma of iliac bone. NY State J Med. 1985 May;85(5):220-2. PubMed PMID: 3859767.

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