Stephanie Childs, MD
Residency
Harvard Radiation Oncology Residency Program; Boston MA
Internship
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA
Medical School
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Undergraduate School
Brown University, Providence Rhode Island
I feel it is an absolute privilege to care for patients with cancer and for their families, and I am constantly in awe of my patients’ strength and insight.
Dr. Childs is a board-certified radiation oncologist. Her areas of practice include breast and lung cancers, lymphoma, gastrointestinal cancers, prostate cancer, and head and neck cancers. She is experienced in external beam radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, proton radiotherapy, HDR brachytherapy, image-guided radiation therapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, and stereotactic body radiotherapy.
Outside of work, Dr. Childs plays the violin, and enjoys books, art, tennis, and gardening. She is the mother of three young boys.
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Honors and Awards
Fulbright Fellowship Recipient 2001
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Professional Memberships
American Society for Radiation Oncology
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Pediatric Radiation Oncology Society
Peer-reviewed Articles
Krejcarek SC, Chen MH, Renshaw AA, Loffredo M, Sussman B, D’Amico AV. Prediagnostic prostate-specific antigen velocity and probability of detecting high-grade prostate cancer. Urology. 2007 Mar; 69(3):515-9. PMID:17382156. DOI:10.1016/j.urology.2006.11.009.
Krejcarek SC, Grant PE, Henson JW, Tarbell NJ, Yock TI. Physiologic and radiographic evidence of the distal edge of the proton beam in craniospinalirradiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Jul 1; 68(3):646-9. Epub 2007 Apr 20. PMID:17449195. PMCID:1955224. DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.02.021.
Kozak KR, Adams J, Krejcarek SJ, Tarbell NJ, Yock TI. A dosimetric comparison of proton and intensity-modulated photon radiotherapy for pediatricparameningeal rhabdomyosarcomas. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 May 1; 74(1):179-86. Epub 2008 Nov 18. PMID:19019562. DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.06.1942.
Jerde TA, Childs SK, Handy ST, Nagode JC, Pardo JV. Dissociable systems of working memory for rhythm and melody. Neuroimage. 2011 Aug 15; 57(4):1572-9. Epub 2011 May 30. PMID:21645625. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.061.
Childs SK, Kozak KR, Friedmann AM, Yeap BY, Adams J, MacDonald SM, Liebsch NJ, Tarbell NJ, Yock TI. Proton radiotherapy for parameningealrhabdomyosarcoma: clinical outcomes and late effects. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Feb 1; 82(2):635-42. Epub 2011 Mar 04. PMID:21377294. PMCID:3290917. DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.11.048.
Childs SK, Chen YH, Duggan MM, Golshan M, Pochebit S, Punglia R, Wong JS, Bellon JR. Impact of Margin Status on Local Recurrence After Mastectomy for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. July 2012.
Childs SK, Chen YH, Duggan MM, Golshan M, Pochebit S, Wong JS, Bellon JR. Surgical margins and the risk of local-regional recurrence after mastectomy without radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Dec 1; 84(5):1133-8. Epub 2012 Apr 27. PMID:22543200. DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.02.048.
Chen YL, Liebsch N, Kobayashi W, Goldberg S, Kirsch D, Calkins G, Childs S, Schwab J, Hornicek F, DeLaney T. Definitive high-dose photon/proton radiotherapy for unresected mobile spine and sacral chordomas. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013 Jul 1; 38(15):930-36.
Wo JY, Childs SK, Szymonifka J, Mamon HJ, Ryan DP, Blaszkowsky LS, Kwak EL, Ferrone CR, Allen JN, Zhu AX, Wolpin BM, Chan JA, Abrams TA,McCleary NJ, Fernandez-del Castillo C, Hong TS. Delaying chemoradiation until after completion of adjuvant chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer may not impact local control. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2014 Mar-Apr; 4(2):e117-23. Epub 2013 Aug 09. PMID:24890357. DOI:10.1016/j.prro.2013.07.006.
Abstracts
Krejcarek SC, Pardo JV. Functional neuroanatomy of working memory for melody and rhythm. NeuroImage. 2000; 11(5):437.
Childs SK, Nguyen PL, Chi SN, Marcus KJ. Incidence, outcomes, and prognostic factors in children with atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRT) using the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Result (SEER) data-base. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011; 81(Suppl 2):S656.
Childs SK, Chen Y, Golshan M, Duggan MM, Pochebit S, Wong JS, Harris JR, Bellon JR. Surgical margins and the risk of local-regional recurrence (LRR) following mastectomy for early stage breast cancer. (Abstract 95) J Clin Oncol. 2011(Suppl 27).
Kohorst M, Warad D, Keating G, Childs S, Giannini C, Wetjen N, Nageswara Rao A. Outcomes of children and young adults with recurrent pilocyticastrocytoma treated with multiple surgical resections. Neuro-oncol. 2014 Jun; 16:63.
Mutter RW, Brown L, Hoeft K, Wurgler S, Childs S, Choo R, Petersen I, Pisansky T, Yan E, Beltran C, Remmes N. Single field spot-scanning (sfss) isdosimetrically superior to 2-field intensity modulated proton therapy (impt) for proton postmastectomy radiation therapy (pmrt). Int J Radiat Oncol BiolPhys. 2014 Sep 1; 90:S243.
Miller RC, Van Houten H, Foote RL, Keole S, Schild SE, Laack NN, Childs SK, Daniels TB, Crown WH, Shah ND. Understanding the characteristics and types of adult and pediatric cancers treated with proton beam radiation therapy in a population of 88 million commercially insured patients. Int J RadiatOncol Biol Phys. 2014 Sep 1; 90:S64.
Yock T, Indelicato DJ, Hartsell W, Kasper HSH, Perkins S, Hill-Kayser C, Mahajan A, Chang AL, Childs S, Laurie F, Buchsbaum J, Raeke L, Neville C, LadraM, Yeap BY. Preliminary results from the pediatric proton consortium registry (ppcr): a collaboration of US proton centers to accelerate proton therapy research. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Dec; 61:S164.