Dr. Kenneth A Foon MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
1 Breakthrough Way Las Vegas NV, 89135About
Dr. Kenneth Foon is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Foon specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
Wayne State Univ Sch of Med, Detroit Mi 1972
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hematology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Construction and characterization of a chimeric fusion protein consisting of an anti-idiotype antibody mimicking a breast cancer-associated antigen and the cytokine GM-CSF.
- Current and future uses of recombinant interferon alpha in the treatment of low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Counterpoint. Cancer vaccines: single-epitope anti-idiotype vaccine versus multiple-epitope antigen vaccine.
- Anti-idiotype vaccine against cancer.
- Monoclonal antibody therapies for lymphomas.
- Construction and characterization of DNA vaccines encoding the single-chain variable fragment of the anti-idiotype antibody 1A7 mimicking the tumor-associated antigen disialoganglioside GD2.
- Immunotherapy for colorectal cancer.
- The anti-idiotype vaccines for immunotherapy.
- Adjuvant immunotherapy for melanoma and colorectal cancers.
- Murine monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibody as a surrogate antigen for human Her-2/neu.
- Are solid tumor anti-idiotype vaccines ready for prime time? Commentary re: U. Wagner et al., Immunological consolidation of ovarian carcinoma recurrences with monoclonal anti-idiotype antibody ACA125: immune responses and survival in palliative trea
- Tumor associated antigen (TAA) mimicry and immunotherapy of malignant diseases from anti-idiotypic antibodies to peptide mimics.
- Gene therapy for head and neck cancer using vaccinia virus expressing IL-2 in a murine model, with evidence of immune suppression.
- Phase II trial of sequential therapy with fludarabine followed by cyclophosphamide, mitoxantrone, vincristine, and prednisone for low-grade follicular lymphomas.
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