Dr. Richard J Bleicher MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
333 Cottman Ave Fox Chase Cancer Cen Philadelphia PA, 19111Rating
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About
Dr. Richard Bleicher is a surgical oncologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Bleicher 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
Temple University School of Medicine 1994
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Glucosylceramide synthase and apoptosis.
- Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymphadenectomy for primary and metastatic pulmonary malignant neoplasms.
- The influence of age on the breast surgery decision-making process.
- MRI and breast cancer: role in detection, diagnosis, and staging.
- Estrogen receptor-negative invasive breast cancer: imaging features of tumors with and without human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 overexpression.
- Inflammatory cutaneous adverse effects of methylene blue dye injection for lymphatic mapping/sentinel lymphadenectomy.
- Young age is not associated with increased local recurrence for DCIS treated by breast-conserving surgery and radiation.
- The effect of simultaneous peripheral excision in breast conservation upon margin
- Lymphatic space invasion is not an independent predictor of outcomes in early stage breast cancer treated by breast-conserving surgery and radiation.
- Advanced imaging modalities in early stage breast cancer: preoperative use in the United States Medicare population.
- Ductal carcinoma in situ.
- The Effect of Simultaneous Peripheral Excision in Breast Conservation upon Margin Status.
- Breast magnetic resonance imaging as it is, in contrast to how we wish it to be.
- Patterns of nodal staging during breast conservation surgery in the medicare patient: will the ACOSOG Z0011 trial change the pattern of care?
- Risk of positive nonsentinel nodes in women with 1-2 positive sentinel nodes related to age and molecular subtype approximated by receptor status.
Treatments
- Breast Cancer
- Pain
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