Dr. Steven Arthur Ahrendt MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
9104 Babcock Blvd Suite 4110 Pittsburgh PA, 15237Rating
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About
Dr. Steven Ahrendt is a surgical oncologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Ahrendt specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer-related symptoms. Surgical oncologists also decide if the patient is a candidate for surgery or other cancer treatments based on certain factors such as age, physical fitness and other possible coexisting medical conditions
Education and Training
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1987
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Rapid p53 sequence analysis in primary lung cancer using an oligonucleotide probe array.
- Extended subcostal hinge incision for right hepatic lobectomy.
- The potential of molecular screening.
- Microsatellite instability at selected tetranucleotide repeats is associated with p53 mutations in non-small cell lung cancer.
- Biliary tract surgery.
- Chromosomal alterations in lung adenocarcinoma from smokers and nonsmokers.
- Increased loss of chromosome 9p21 but not p16 inactivation in primary non-small cell lung cancer from smokers.
- O(6)-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase promoter hypermethylation shifts the p53 mutational spectrum in non-small cell lung cancer.
- Cigarette smoking is strongly associated with mutation of the K-ras gene in patients with primary adenocarcinoma of the lung.
- Molecular detection approaches for smoking associated tumors.
- The XRCC1 codon 399 Gln allele is associated with adenine to guanine p53 mutations in non-small cell lung cancer.
- Screening of homologous recombination gene polymorphisms in lung cancer patients reveals an association of the NBS1-185Gln variant and p53 gene mutations.
- Translational research in lung cancer.
- Thymidylate synthase expression predicts the response to 5-fluorouracil-based adjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer.
- hOGG1 Ser326Cys polymorphism and G:C-to-T:A mutations: no evidence for a role in tobacco-related non small cell lung cancer.
Treatments
- Colon Cancer
Fellowships
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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