Dr. John Hart Raaf M.D.
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
12501 Fairhill Rd Cleveland OH, 44120About
Dr. John Raaf is a surgical oncologist practicing in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Raaf 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1970
Harvard Medical School 1970
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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- Multi-purpose silastic dual-lumen central venous catheters for both collection and transplantation of hematopoietic progenitor cells.
- Aneurysm of the gastroduodenal artery: an unusual cause of obstructive jaundice.
- Fresh and cultured thyroid gland: survival and function after implantation.
- The sloan-kettering affair.
- An atraumatic tunneling device for implantation of right atrial catheters and ports.
- Increased adriamycin levels in hepatic implants of rabbit Vx-2 carcinoma from regional infusion.
- Techniques for avoiding surgical complications in chemotherapy-treated cancer patients.
- Results from use of 826 vascular access devices in cancer patients.
- Trabecular (Merkel cell) carcinoma of the skin. Treatment of primary, recurrent, and metastatic disease.
- Transplantation of fresh and cultured parathyroid glands in the rat.
- Letter: The Sloan-Kettering affair.
- Vascular access grafts for chemotherapy. Use in forty patients at M. D. Anderson Hospital.
- Vascular access grafts for chemotherapy. Use in forty patients at M. D. Anderson Hospital.
- Gastric leiomyosarcoma: clinical and pathological review of fifty patients.
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