Dr. Owen A O'connor MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
1275 York Ave New York NY, 10021About
Dr. Owen O'connor is an oncologist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. O'connor specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. O'connor 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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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Protection of bone marrow cells from toxicity of chemotherapeutic agents targeted toward thymidylate synthase by transfer of mutant forms of human thymidylate synthase cDNA.
- Do we need a new strategy to treat metastatic breast cancer?
- Metabolism of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids from tansy ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) in ovine ruminal fluid under anaerobic conditions.
- The emerging role of bortezomib in the treatment of indolent non-Hodgkin's and mantle cell lymphomas.
- Diffuse aggressive lymphoma.
- Developing new drugs for the treatment of lymphoma.
- Targeting histones and proteasomes: new strategies for the treatment of lymphoma.
- Marked clinical activity of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib in patients with follicular and mantle-cell lymphoma.
- The schedule-dependent effects of the novel antifolate pralatrexate and gemcitabine are superior to methotrexate and cytarabine in models of human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Mechanistic rationale and clinical evidence for the efficacy of proteasome inhibitors against indolent and mantle cell lymphomas.
- Novel small molecules in the treatment of lymphomas.
- An electrodiagnostic evaluation of the effect of pre-existing peripheral nervous system disorders in patients treated with the novel proteasome inhibitor bortezomib.
- Drug-induced cutaneous vasculitis in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated with the novel proteasome inhibitor bortezomib: a possible surrogate marker of response?
- Pegylated interferon plus rituximab in advanced stage, indolent lymphoma: is there CD20 antigen upregulation?
- Pralatrexate: an emerging new agent with activity in T-cell lymphomas.
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- Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
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