The Radiation Oncology Clinical Program provides state-of-the-art treatments for cancer patients. This contemporary therapy is a part of USC’s multidisciplinary cancer treatment effort. Departmental capabilities include the latest in external beam radiotherapy, 3D-conformal radiotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial and extracranial sites, which includes spinal stereotaxy (the only such facility in California), high dose-rate remote after-loading brachytherapy, episcleral eye plaque therapy with and without hyperthermia, and clinical hyperthemia program, which includes treatment of superficial, interstitial, intracavitary and deep lesions. Some hyperthermia applications, such as that for the eye and prostate, were developed at USC.

A successful and internationally recognized component of the department’s clinical program is the Gamma Knife stereotactic unit at USC University Hospital. This unit is operated jointly with the Department of Neurological Surgery.

The division of radiation oncology at the LAC+USC Medical Center is among the most modern in a public hospital setting, and is also one of the country’s busiest.

National and International Recognition

“Best Doctors in America”

• Zbigniew Petrovich, M.D.
• Oscar Streeter Jr., M.D.

“America’s Top Doctors”

• Oscar Streeter Jr., M.D.
• Zbigniew Petrovich, M.D.
  Distinguished Service Award, American Board of Radiology; Medal of the 600th Anniversary of the Renewal of Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, for research in urology