Author | Wallace Akerley, MD

Articles

Concurrent Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy in Patients With Brain Tumors

October 01, 1999

ByMichael J. Glantz, MD|Lyndon Kim, MD|Hak Choy, MD|Wallace Akerley, MD

Because treatment for most brain tumors remains inadequate, there has been a sustained interest in using concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy to improve local control, prolong overall survival, and reduce

Paclitaxel, Carboplatin, and Radiation Therapy for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

January 02, 1998

ByHak Choy, MD|Wallace Akerley, MD|Russell Devore, MD

Preclinically, the taxanes appear to potentiate radiation more effectively than do the platinum compounds. In our phase I trial (LUN-17) in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, we defined the maximum tolerated