Dr. Neil Taunk
Radiation Oncologist
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Dr. Neil Taunk is an assistant professor of radioation oncology and radiology at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
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Episode # 123 • 29 Sept 2023
Perfecting Rectal Spacer Placement for Optimal Care
This week on BackTable Urology, Dr. Juan Javier-Desloges, a urologic oncologist at UC San Diego, interviews Dr. Neil Taunk, a radiation oncologist leading the Brachytherapy and Procedural Radiation program at the University of Pennsylvania, about his experience with using SpaceOAR rectal spacer for prostate cancer radiotherapy.
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Neil K. Taunk, MD, MSCTS, is an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He trained at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and completed medical school at Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Taunk specializes in treating people with breast, gynecologic, and prostate cancers. His research interests include improving outcomes of women receiving breast radiation therapy, and using advanced imaging to improve cancer detection and monitoring.
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SpaceOAR and SpaceOAR Vue Hydrogels are intended to temporarily position the anterior rectal wall away from the prostate during radiotherapy for prostate cancer and in creating this space it is the intent of SpaceOAR and SpaceOAR Vue Hydrogels to reduce the radiation dose delivered to the anterior rectum.
SpaceOAR and SpaceOAR Vue Hydrogels contain polyethylene glycol (PEG). SpaceOAR Vue Hydrogel contains iodine.
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