Dr. Stephen Eric Karp M.D.
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
Lahey Clinic 41 Mall Road Burlington MA, 01805About
Dr. Stephen Karp is a surgical oncologist practicing in Burlington, MA. Dr. Karp 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
Mc Gill Univ- Fac Of Med- Montreal- Que- Canada 1981
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hexokinase type II: a novel tumor-specific promoter for gene-targeted therapy differentially expressed and regulated in human cancer cells.
- Clinical management of BRCA1- and BRCA2-associated breast cancer.
- Evaluation of stereotactic core needle biopsy (SCNB) of the breast at a single institution.
- The lifetime risks of breast cancer in Ashkenazi Jewish carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
- In vivo activity of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) mutants. Secretory but not membrane-bound TNF mediates the regression of retrovirally transduced murine tumor.
- A nonimmunogenic sarcoma transduced with the cDNA for interferon gamma elicits CD8+ T cells against the wild-type tumor: correlation with antigen presentation capability.
- Sentinel node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in biopsy-proven node-positive breast cancer: the SN FNAC study.
- Combination therapy with interleukin-2 and alpha-interferon for the treatment of patients with advanced cancer.
- A murine model for the immunotherapy of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
- Retroviral transduction of interferon-gamma cDNA into a nonimmunogenic murine fibrosarcoma: generation of T cells in draining lymph nodes capable of treating established parental metastatic tumor.
- Generation of therapeutic T cells from draining lymph nodes in a murine model of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
- Low-dose intravenous bolus interleukin-2 with interferon-alpha therapy for metastatic melanoma and renal cell carcinoma.
- Germ-line BRCA1 mutation is an adverse prognostic factor in Ashkenazi Jewish women with breast cancer.
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