Rufus Scrimger

Contact

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Oncology Dept
Email
scrimger@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 432-8517
Address
Cross Cancer Institute
11560 University Avenue
Edmonton AB
T6G 1Z2

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About

Dr. Scrimger completed his residency in Radiation Oncology at the University of Alberta in 1999. He went on to complete a fellowship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, studying helical tomotherapy. Currently his research interests continue to be the use of advanced technology in radiation treatment, and the integration of new imaging modalities such as PET and MR spectroscopy on the radiation planning process. Trials are currently underway utilizing tomotherapy in the treatment of head and neck cancers, to protect saliva glands, and in the imaging of head and neck patients post-treatment to better understand the relationship between radiation dose and saliva gland injury.

Featured Publications

Garden, AS., Harris, J., Eisbruch, A., Chao, KSC., Morrison, WH., Harani, PM., Swanson, TA., Jones, CU., Yom, SS., Spencer, SA., Scrimger, RA., Shenouda, G., Shukla, ME., Lau, H., Mierzwa, ML., Torres-Saavendra, P., Le, QT.

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics. 2021 November; 111 (S3):S143 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.322