Professor

Arjun Sahgal

MD, FRCPC

Publications

Location

Odette Cancer Centre - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Address

2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4N 3M5

Clinical Interests

Central nervous system tumours and stereotactic radiosurgery, Treatment of spinal/paraspinous tumours, Spinal cord myelopathy, the consequence of small volumes receiving high doses to predict for organ dysfunction

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Qualification

BSc (Hons.), Biochemistry, University of Ottawa
MD, University of Ottawa
FRCPC, Radiation Oncology

Research Synopsis

Evaluation of new radiation technologies for spine stereotactic body radiotherapy in multi-institutional planning studies
Determining spinal cord tolerance to high dose per fraction radiation radiotherapy
Evaluation of the Hexapod and Elekta Synergy system for spine stereotactic body radiotherapy
Clinical research protocol development for spine stereotactic body radiotherapy and the treatment of brain metastases with radiosurgery

Recent Publications

Sahgal A, Bilsky M, Chang EL, Ma L, Yamada Y, Rhines L, Letourneau D, Foote M, Yu E, Larson DA, Fehling M. Stereotactic body radiotherapy for spinal metastases: current status with a focus on the application to the post-operative patient. J Neurosurg Spine. Dec, 24, 2010. epub

Sahgal A, Ma L, Weinberg V, Gibbs IC, Chao S, Chang U, Werner-wasik M, Angelov A, Chang EL, Sohn MJ, Soltys S., Letourneau D, Ryu S, Gerszten PC, Fowler J, Wong CS, Larson DA. Re-treatment Spinal Cord Tolerance for Spine Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. Int J Rad Oncol Biol Phys. Oct 18, 2010. epub

Foote M, Letourneau D, Hyde D, Massicotte E, Rampersaud R, Fehlings M, Fisher C, Lewis S, La Macchia N, Yu E, Laperriere N, Sahgal A. Stereotactic body radiotherapy for spine metastases: technical details for practice. J of Clinical Neuroscience. 18(2):276-279, 2011.

Ma L, Sahgal A, Cozzi L, Chang E, Shiu A, Letourneau D, Yin F, Fogliata A, Kaissl W, Hyde D, Laperriere NJ, Shrieve DC, Larson DA. Apparatus-dependent differences in spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) dosimetry. Tech Cancer Res Treat. 9(6): 563-574, 2010.

Sahgal A, Barani IJ, Novotny J, Zhang B, Petti P, Larson DA, Ma L. Prescription dose guidelines based on physical criterion for multiple metastatic brain tumors treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Int J Rad Onc Biol Phys. 78(2):605-608, 2010.

Sahgal A, Ma L, Gibbs I, Gerszten PC, Ryu S, Soltys S, Weinberg V, Wong S, Chang E, Fowler J, Larson DA. Spinal cord tolerance for stereotactic body radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 77(2): 548-553, 2010.

Appointments

Professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Surgery, University of Toronto
Staff Radiation Oncologist, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre