Dr. Willis H. Navarro M.D.
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
1 Dna Way Ms444b, Rm 44-4342 South San Francisco CA, 94080About
Dr. Willis Navarro is an oncologist practicing in South San Francisco, CA. Dr. Navarro specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Navarro 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.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Impact of obesity in the setting of high-dose chemotherapy.
- AIDS-related lymphoproliferative disease.
- Differences in characteristics of US hematopoietic stem cell transplantation centers by proportion of racial or ethnic minorities.
- Methodological and logistical considerations to study design and data collection in racial/ethnic minority populations evaluating outcome disparity in hematopoietic cell transplantation.
- Donor policies for stem cell transplantation.
- Obesity and lymphoma therapy: not a bad combination after all.
- Infusion of autologous peripheral blood stem cells in an unrelated donor who developed severe aplastic anemia following stem cell donation.
- National marrow donor program session: donor issues.
- Towards a global system of vigilance and surveillance in unrelated donors of haematopoietic progenitor cells for transplantation.
- Results of a prospective multicentre myeloablative double-unit cord blood transplantation trial in adult patients with acute leukaemia and myelodysplasia.
- Autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for HIV-related lymphoma: results of the BMT CTN 0803/AMC 071 trial.
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