Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Professor, Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Professor, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburg
Radiation Oncology
Dr. Dwight E. Heron, MD
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Dwight E. Heron is an expert in the field of Radiation Oncology. He went to medical school at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He over the years received 1 awards: "Regional Top Doctor". Dr. Dwight E. Heron has written publications. He has 100 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Clinical Pathways: A Catalyst for the Adoption ofHypofractionation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer.' He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Clinical Pathways: A Catalyst for the Adoption of Hypofractionation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer.
- An enhanced role for palliative care in the multidisciplinary approach to high-risk head and neck cancer.
- A prospective phase 2 trial of reirradiation with stereotactic body radiation therapy plus cetuximab in patients with previously irradiated recurrent squamous cell car...
- Postoperative stereotactic radiosurgery to the resection cavity for large brain metastases: clinical outcomes, predictors of intracranial failure, and implications for...
- Patterns of care for omission of radiation therapy for elderly women with early-stage breast cancer receiving hormonal therapy.
- In regard to olson et Al and ellsworth et Al.
- 4Ï Noncoplanar Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Head-and-Neck Cancer: Potential to Improve Tumor Control and Late Toxicity.
- Stereotactic body radiotherapy for recurrent oropharyngeal cancer - Influence of HPV status and smoking history.
- The use of strain tensor to estimate thoracic tumors deformation.
- Adjuvant stereotactic body radiotherapy ± cetuximab following salvage surgery in previously irradiated head and neck cancer.
- Extended (5-year) outcomes of accelerated partial breast irradiation using MammoSite balloon brachytherapy: patterns of failure, patient selection, and dosimetric corr...
- Treatment Outcomes in Patients Treated With CyberKnife Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma.
- Dosimetric evaluation of the interplay effect in respiratory-gated RapidArc radiation therapy.
- Simultaneous reduction of radiation dose and scatter for CBCT by using collimators.
- Extent of perilesional edema differentiates radionecrosis from tumor recurrence following stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases.
- Recommendations for Post-Mastectomy Radiation Therapy after Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy: An International Survey of Radiation Oncologists.
- Negative Predictive Value of Surveillance PET/CT in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer.
- In Regard to Comet et al.
- Oncologic and functional outcomes of partial laryngeal surgery for intermediate-stage laryngeal cancer.
- Target delineation in stereotactic body radiation therapy for recurrent head and neck cancer: A retrospective analysis of the impact of margins and automated PET-CT se...
- Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) for primary and recurrent head and neck tumors.
- Preoperative Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Vulvar Carcinoma: Analysis of Pattern of Relapse.
- Dosimetric effect of intrafraction tumor motion in phase gated lung stereotactic body radiotherapy.
- How Effective are Clinical Pathways with and Without Online Peer-Review? An Analysis of Bone Metastases Pathway in a Large, Integrated National Cancer Institute-Design...
- Retrospective review of patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer treated at the university of pittsburgh.
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy for locally recurrent, previously irradiated nonsquamous cell cancers of the head and neck.
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery to the Resection Cavity of Brain Metastases: A Retrospective Analysis and Literature Review.
- What the Diagnostic Radiologist Needs to Know about Radiation Oncology.
- Thirty- and ninety-day outcomes after sublobar resection with and without brachytherapy for non-small cell lung cancer: Results from a multicenter phase III study.
- Posttreatment Quality-of-Life Assessment in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy.
- Quality Assurance Analysis of a Large Multicenter Practice: Does Increased Complexity of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy Lead to Increased Error Frequency?
- Efficacy and cost-effectiveness analysis of external beam and stereotactic body radiation therapy in the treatment of spine metastases: a matched-pair analysis.
- Concurrent cetuximab with stereotactic body radiotherapy for recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a single institution matched case-control study.
- Prognostic factors in patients with high-risk locally advanced salivary gland cancers treated with surgery and postoperative radiotherapy.
- Clinicopathologic features as stronger prognostic factors than histology or grade in risk stratification of primary parotid malignancies.
- Stereotactic body radiotherapy in the treatment of advanced adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
- Radiotherapy and temozolomide for newly diagnosed glioblastoma and anaplastic astrocytoma: validation of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group-Recursive Partitioning Analys...
- Induction docetaxel, cisplatin, and cetuximab followed by concurrent radiotherapy, cisplatin, and cetuximab and maintenance cetuximab in patients with locally advanced...
- A novel off-axis scanning method for an enlarged ellipse cone-beam computed tomography field of view.
- Combined endoscopic endonasal surgery and fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (fSRS) for complex cranial base tumors-early clinical outcomes.
- The Impact of Tumor Volume and Radiotherapy Dose on Outcome in Previously Irradiated Recurrent Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck Treated With Stereotactic B...
- Adjuvant Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma with Close or Positive Margins.
- Definitive radiation therapy for endometrial cancer in medically inoperable elderly patients.
- Fractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy in the treatment of previously-irradiated recurrent head and neck carcinoma: updated report of the University of Pitts...
- Positron emission tomography-computed tomography adds to the management of salivary gland malignancies.
- Clinical usefulness of positron emission tomography-computed tomography in recurrent thyroid carcinoma.
- Management of patients treated with chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer without prophylactic feeding tubes: the University of Pittsburgh experience.
- Stereotactic body radiotherapy for recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: results of a phase I dose-escalation trial.
- Initial outcomes analysis for large multicenter integrated cancer network implementation of intensity modulated radiation therapy for breast cancer.
- Evaluation of formative development in the neighborhood cancer care cooperative.
- Creation of community-based research capabilities in the neighborhood cancer care cooperative: administrative infrastructure, program initiatives, and evaluation prior...
- Use of partnership strategies to build radiation oncology disparities research programs in five Western Pennsylvania communities: an organizational case study.
- Image-guided respiratory-gated lung stereotactic body radiotherapy: which target definition is optimal?
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of stage I non-small cell lung cancer in high-risk patients.
- Dosimetric evaluations of the interplay effect in respiratory-gated intensity-modulated radiation therapy.
- MammoSite accelerated partial breast irradiation: a single-institution outcomes analysis with 2 years of followup.
- Role of surgery in limited (T1-2, N0-1) cancers of the oropharynx.
- Factors associated with patient navigators' time spent on reducing barriers to cancer treatment.
- Novel method for benchmarking recruitment of African American cancer patients to clinical therapeutic trials.
- PET-CT in radiation oncology: the impact on diagnosis, treatment planning, and assessment of treatment response.
- Four-dimensional computed tomography-based interfractional reproducibility study of lung tumor intrafractional motion.
- Fractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy in the treatment of primary, recurrent, and metastatic lung tumors: the role of positron emission tomography/computed ...
- High-dose-rate Rotte "Y" applicator brachytherapy for definitive treatment of medically inoperable endometrial cancer: 10-year results.
- Preoperative intensity-modulated radiotherapy and chemotherapy for locally advanced vulvar carcinoma.
- Long-term results of a phase III randomized trial of postoperative radiotherapy with or without carboplatin in patients with high-risk head and neck cancer.
- Synchrony--cyberknife respiratory compensation technology.
- Deferring planned neck dissection following chemoradiation for stage IV head and neck cancer: the utility of PET-CT.
- What do patients want from their radiation oncologist? Initial results from a prospective trial.
- Dosimetric evaluation of radiation exposure during I-125 vicryl mesh implants: implications for ACOSOG z4032.
- The effect of respiratory cycle and radiation beam-on timing on the dose distribution of free-breathing breast treatment using dynamic IMRT.
- Breast cancer risk assessment in socioeconomically disadvantaged urban communities.
- The intrafraction motion induced dosimetric impacts in breast 3D radiation treatment: a 4DCT based study.
- Early clinical outcome with concurrent chemotherapy and extended-field, intensity-modulated radiotherapy for cervical cancer.
- Dosimetric and toxicity comparison between prone and supine position IMRT for endometrial cancer.
- Breast skin doses from brachytherapy using MammoSite HDR, intensity modulated radiation therapy, and tangential fields techniques.
- Performance characteristics and quality assurance aspects of kilovoltage cone-beam CT on medical linear accelerator.
- Image-guided radiation therapy: part 3 - stereotactic body radiation therapy.
- Treatment techniques for 3D conformal radiation to breast and chest wall including the internal mammary chain.
- Clinical implementation of tangential field intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using sliding window technique and dosimetric comparison with 3D conformal the...
- Frameless stereotactic radiosurgery for recurrent head and neck carcinoma.
- Comparison of 2D vs. 3D dosimetry for Rotte 'Y' applicator high dose rate brachytherapy for medically inoperable endometrial cancer.
- High-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy for gynecologic malignancies.
- A single institutional experience with definitive radiotherapy for cervical cancer using both high- and low-dose-rate brachytherapy.
- Feasibility of concurrent cisplatin and extended field radiation therapy (EFRT) using intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for carcinoma of the cervix.
- Clinical outcome with adjuvant treatment of endometrial carcinoma using intensity-modulated radiation therapy.
- Posttreatment assessment of response using FDG-PET/CT for patients treated with definitive radiation therapy for head and neck cancers.
- The potential nephrotoxic effects of intensity modulated radiotherapy delivered to the para-aortic area of women with gynecologic malignancies: preliminary results.
- Intensity-modulated radiotherapy for the treatment of vulvar carcinoma: a comparative dosimetric study with early clinical outcome.
- Does breast size affect the scatter dose to the ipsilateral lung, heart, or contralateral breast in primary breast irradiation using intensity-modulated radiation ther...
- Modern radiation treatment planning and delivery--from Röntgen to real time.
- Advances in image-guided radiation therapy--the role of PET-CT.
- Target delineation and localization (IGRT)--part 1.
- Cone-beam imaging and respiratory motion (IGRT)-part II.
- Contralateral uptake and metastases in sentinel lymph node mapping for recurrent breast cancer.
- Prescription dose in permanent (131)Cs seed prostate implants.
- Perineural invasion of squamous cell carcinoma of the lip with occult involvement of the infra-orbital nerve detected by PET-CT and treated with MRI-based IMRT: a case...
- Positive microscopic margins alter outcome in lymph node-negative cholangiocarcinoma when resection is combined with adjuvant radiotherapy.
- Intraoperative (125)I Vicryl mesh brachytherapy after sublobar resection for high-risk stage I non-small cell lung cancer.
- Hybrid PET-CT simulation for radiation treatment planning in head-and-neck cancers: a brief technical report.
Schools
University Of Rochester
Thomas Jefferson University
Doctors Specialties
- Radiation Oncology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health America PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Community Blue PPO
- Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- UPMC PPO
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
Education
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Thomas Jefferson University -
Winthrop-University Hospital -
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1578536397 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | HERON | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DWIGHT | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152321304 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Radiation Oncology | |
| Total Claim Count | 33.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1578536397 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | HERON |
| First Name Of The Provider | DWIGHT |
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