The New York Times recently reported on a couple of cases of radiation therapy gone terribly wrong.  Since then, several radiation oncologists have come out urging us to keep our perspective and remember that these incidences, though devastating, are very rare (less than 1 in 22,000) and that...

Congratulations Dr. Steven Isaacson on two prestigious awards!  Dr. Isaacson from the Gamma Knife Center was named one of America's Top Doctors by Castle Connolly for 2010.  This comes on the heels of  his award as one of America's Top Doctors For Cancer just last October.

Doctors often use grading scales that measure the most salient features of an illness to predict the outcome of a given treatment. These scales have been developed over the years and take in the experiences of many doctors and their patients with varying degrees of a problem. Things like how large...