Mr. Wai K Leung MD
Anesthesiologist
726 4th St Marysville CA, 95901About
Dr. Wai Leung is an anesthesiologist practicing in Marysville, CA. Dr. Leung ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Leung also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Univ Of Ca- Davis- Sch Of Med- Davis Ca 1993
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Detection of gene promoter hypermethylation in the tumor and serum of patients with gastric carcinoma.
- Expression of trefoil peptides (TFF1, TFF2, and TFF3) in gastric carcinomas, intestinal metaplasia, and non-neoplastic gastric tissues.
- Promoter hypermethylation of tumor-related genes in gastric intestinal metaplasia of patients with and without gastric cancer.
- Evaluation of the string test for the detection of Helicobacter pylori.
- Screening for colorectal cancer in Chinese: comparison of fecal occult blood test, flexible sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy.
- Inactivation of helicase-like transcription factor by promoter hypermethylation in human gastric cancer.
- Cyclooxygenase-2 upregulates vascular endothelial growth factor expression and angiogenesis in human gastric carcinoma.
- Immunization with attenuated Salmonella typhimurium producing catalase in protection against gastric Helicobacter pylori infection in mice.
- Cyclooxygenase-2 pathway correlates with vascular endothelial growth factor expression and tumor angiogenesis in hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Screening of colonic tumors by air-inflated magnetic resonance (MR) colonography.
- Early gastric cancer.
- Expression of HBx and COX-2 in chronic hepatitis B, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma: implication of HBx in upregulation of COX-2.
- Promoter hypermethylation of tumor-related genes in the progression of colorectal neoplasia.
- Celecoxib versus diclofenac plus omeprazole in high-risk arthritis patients: results of a randomized double-blind trial.
- Quantitative detection of methylated SOCS-1 , a tumor suppressor gene, by a modified protocol of quantitative real time methylation-specific PCR using SYBR green and its use in early gastric cancer detection.
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