Marta Scorsetti

Italy

Biography

Marta Scorsetti MD, Full Professor in Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy - Department of Biomedical Sciences, Director of Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Department. Prof. Marta Scorsetti has a major role in the development of Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) in Italy. With her experience in these radiotherapy techniques, Prof. Scorsetti has contributed to the Humanitas Cancer Center in becoming a referral Hospital for the treatment of liver tumors, pancreatic cancer and lung neoplasm, and oligometastatic disease. She graduated from the University of Milan, Faculty of Medicine, in 1993 with thesis entitled “Radiosurgery for the treatment of brain metastases “. In 1998 Prof. Marta Scorsetti obtained her post-graduate degree in Radiology and Radiation Oncology. From 1991 to 2003 she worked at the National Cancer Institute of Milan as Resident, then Assistant Radiation Oncologist and subsequently Associate Chief in Radiation Oncology. Since 2003 she is chief of the Radiotherapy department of Humanitas Hospital. Her main interests, activities and responsibilities are radiobiology and physics, new approaches in radiation treatment planning, integrated treatments (radio -chemotherapy in solid tumors), implementation of highly conformal radiation therapy techniques, as Radiosurgery and SBRT. Prof. Marta Scorsetti is principal investigator in clinical trials for the development of SBRT in lung cancer, pancreatic tumors, metastasis and primary tumors of the liver, oligometastatic patients in different settings including abdominal metastases and lung metastasis, prostate cancer and radiosurgery for brain metastasis. She has published over 300 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals, several books chapters, edited/reviewed for many academic journals.