William H McAllister
University of Virginia
5 Papers
William H McAllister is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Radiosurgery. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 5 publications.
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Stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of bulky spine metastases.
Roman O. Kowalchuk,Michael R. Waters,K Martin Richardson,Kelly Spencer,James M. Larner,Jason P. Sheehan,William H McAllister,Charles R Kersh +7 more
TL;DR: SRS can effectively treat bulky metastases to the spine, resulting in improvement of pain with minimal toxicity, and severe pain independently predicts for worse overall survival, indicating that treatment prior to worsening of pain is strongly recommended.
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Stereotactic body radiation therapy for spinal metastases: a novel local control stratification by spinal region.
Roman O. Kowalchuk,Michael R Waters,K Martin Richardson,Kelly Spencer,James M. Larner,William H McAllister,Jason P. Sheehan,Charles R Kersh +7 more
TL;DR: A novel risk stratification for local failure and LPFS by spinal region is presented and patients with metastases to the sacral spine may have decreased local control due to increased PTV, especially with a PTV of > 50 cm3.
Local control of 1–5 fraction radiotherapy regimens for spinal metastases: an analysis of the impacts of biologically effective dose and primary histology
Roman O. Kowalchuk,David Cousins,Kelly Spencer,K Martin Richardson,James M. Larner,Timothy N. Showalter,William H McAllister,Jason P. Sheehan,C. Ronald Kersh,Sunil W. Dutta +9 more
TL;DR: Modately-escalated treatments were efficacious and well-tolerated, particularly for prostate cancer and patients with favorable survival, and BED ≥ 40 Gy may improve local control (LC) in spinal metastases treated with highly conformal radiotherapy to moderately-escalation doses.
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A comparison of stereotactic body radiation therapy for metastases to the sacral spine and treatment of the thoracolumbar spine.
Roman O. Kowalchuk,Michael R. Waters,K Martin Richardson,Kelly Spencer,James M. Larner,Jason P. Sheehan,William H McAllister,Charles R Kersh +7 more
TL;DR: SBRT for sacral spine metastases is a distinct disease process than metastases to the thoracolumbar spine, resulting in lower rates of local control and pain improvement.
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Symptomatic Meckel's Cave Metastasis from Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Treated with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
TL;DR: Radiation therapy, especially radiosurgery, is increasingly recognized as an excellent alternative to surgery for lesions in the Meckel’s cave and intracranial/skull base prostate cancer metastases with few side effects and requires only one treatment.