Dr. Roderick Randolph Turner MD
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
1328 22nd St Department Of Pathol Santa Monica CA, 90404About
Dr. Roderick Turner is a pathologist practicing in Santa Monica, CA. Dr. Turner is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Turner can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Turner may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, Los Angeles, Ucla Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1979
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- One hundred consecutive cases of sentinel lymph node mapping in early colorectal
- Effect of lymphatic mapping on the new tumor-node-metastasis classification for colorectal cancer.
- Peptide nucleic acid clamp PCR: a novel K-ras mutation detection assay for colorectal cancer micrometastases in lymph nodes.
- Prognostic significance of molecular upstaging of paraffin-embedded sentinel lymph nodes in melanoma patients.
- Chemokine receptor CXCR4 expression in colorectal cancer patients increases the risk for recurrence and for poor survival.
- Molecular diagnosis of micrometastasis in the sentinel lymph node.
- Prospective multicenter trial of staging adequacy in colon cancer: preliminary results.
- Chemokine receptor CXCR4 expression in patients with melanoma and colorectal cancer liver metastases and the association with disease outcome.
- Lymphatic mapping establishes the role of BRAF gene mutation in papillary thyroid carcinoma.
- Assessment of methylation events during colorectal tumor progression by absolute quantitative analysis of methylated alleles.
- Isolated tumor cells in the sentinel node affect long-term prognosis of patients with melanoma.
- New approaches to assessing and treating early-stage colon and rectal cancer: summary statement from 2007 Santa Monica Conference.
- Quantitative analysis of methylation of genomic loci in early-stage rectal cancer predicts distant recurrence.
- Human high molecular weight-melanoma-associated antigen: utility for detection of metastatic melanoma in sentinel lymph nodes.
- Importance of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with thin melanoma.
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