Dr. Jeffrey Jerome Pelton MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
700 2nd St Ne Kaiser Permanente Ca Washington DC, 20002About
Dr. Jeffrey Pelton is a surgical oncologist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Pelton 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
Uniformed Services University F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine MD
Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences,Bethesda, Md, United States 1984
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine 1984
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Success of cervical exploration for patients with asymptomatic primary
- Neuroblastoma of the thoracic inlet.
- A technique of airway management in children with obstructed airway due to tumor.
- Epidural narcotic analgesia after thoracotomy.
- The influence of surgical margins on advanced cancer treated with intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) and surgical resection.
- Self-mutilation and malingering among Cuban migrants detained at Guantanamo Bay.
- Routine diagnostic laparoscopy is unnecessary in staging tumors of the pancreatic head.
- Comparison of liver function tests after hepatic lobectomy and hepatic wedge resection.
Treatments
- Liver Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Colon Cancer
- Stomach Cancer
- Lipoma
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