Dr. Kenneth J Pienta MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
600 N WOLFE ST BALTIMORE MD, 21287About
Dr. Kenneth Pienta is an oncologist practicing in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Pienta specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Pienta manages and oversees the treatment of a cancer patient after he or she has been diagnosed with the disease. Oncologists will care for their patients throughout the course of the disease. Types of oncologists include medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, pediatric oncologists and hematologist oncologists.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Paclitaxel in the treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
- Vitamin E, alpha- and gamma-tocopherol, and prostate cancer.
- Skeletal metastasis of prostate adenocarcinoma in rats: morphometric analysis and role of parathyroid hormone-related protein.
- Rational use of chemotherapy. It is not just rat poison.
- Oral chemotherapy for hormone refractory prostate cancer. The University of Michigan experience.
- A unifying model to explain the increased incidence and higher mortality of prostate cancer in black men.
- Hormone resistance in prostate cancer.
- Signaling network of paclitaxel-induced apoptosis in the LNCaP prostate cancer cell line.
- Phase II trial of oral estramustine, oral etoposide, and intravenous paclitaxel in hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
- Pain management in patients with advanced prostate cancer.
- Novel molecular targets for prostate cancer therapy.
- Parathyroid hormone-related protein as a growth regulator of prostate carcinoma.
- The role of the nuclear matrix in cancer chemotherapy.
- Anti-invasive, antitumorigenic, and antimetastatic activities of the PHSCN sequence in prostate carcinoma.
- Modified differential display technique that eliminates radioactivity and decreases screening time.
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