Dr. Susan K Parsons MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
750 Washington St Nemc Box 836 Boston MA, 02111About
Dr. Susan Parsons is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Parsons specializes in treating children that have a blood disease or cancer. Such blood diseases include disorders of red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets. The types of cancers that Dr. Parsons treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Parsons can also treat bleeding disorders in children. Pediatric hematologists can be found in childrens hospitals, community hospitals, university medical centers and more.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1986
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evaluation of risk prediction criteria for episodes of febrile neutropenia in children with cancer.
- Final validation of the Pediatric Tracheotomy Health Status Instrument (PTHSI).
- Current practice patterns in the treatment of perforated appendicitis in children.
- The impact of pediatric tracheotomy on parental caregiver burden and health status.
- Mothers' perceptions of benefit following pediatric stem cell transplantation: a longitudinal investigation of the roles of optimism, medical risk, and sociodemographic resources.
- Changes in mothers' basic beliefs following a child's bone marrow transplantation: the role of prior trauma and negative life events.
- Quality-of-life assessment in pediatric brain tumor patients and survivors: lessons learned and challenges to face.
- Measuring therapeutic response in chronic graft-versus-host disease: National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: IV. Response Criteria Working Group report.
- Factor structure of the brief symptom inventory--18 in adult survivors of childhood cancer: results from the childhood cancer survivor study.
- Cancer survivors information seeking behaviors: a comparison of survivors who do and do not seek information about cancer.
- Long-term functional impact of congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair on children.
- Approaches to neurodevelopmental assessment in congenital diaphragmatic hernia survivors.
- Health behaviors in cancer survivors.
- Impact on family of survivors of congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair: a pilot study.
- Screening practices in cancer survivors.
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