Dr. Shyamal Patel, Radiation Oncologist at Dignity Health Cancer Institute [RO]

Dr. Shyamal Patel is a radiation oncologist with expertise in brachytherapy who helped start the program at Dignity Health Cancer Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an alumnus of Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his internship in medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and subsequently his residency in radiation oncology at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY. He then completed his fellowship in brachytherapy at the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of one of the pioneers of prostate high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy. Listen as he shares what he loves best about his work and what qualities are key to being a good radiation oncologist.