Dr. Luis E. Raez, MD, FACP, FCCP

Expert Publications

• Pulmonary bone marrow embolism in sickle cell disease.
• Natural history and prognostic factors for survival in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL).
• Post-liver transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders with and without infusions of donor bone marrow cells.
• Induction of CD8 T-cell-Ifn-gamma response and positive clinical outcome after immunization with gene-modified allogeneic tumor cells in advanced non-small-cell lung carcinoma.
• Irinotecan and docetaxel as first line chemotherapy in patients with stage
• Allogeneic vaccination with a B7.1 HLA-A gene-modified adenocarcinoma cell line in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.
• Combination of imatinib and cytarabine for the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
• Clinical responses to gefinitib after failure of treatment with cetuximab in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.
• Clinical trials targeting lung cancer with active immunotherapy: the scope of vaccines.
• DNA methylation: its role in lung carcinogenesis and therapeutic implications.
• Chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.
• Lung cancer immunotherapy.
• Pemetrexed-associated urticarial vasculitis.
• New developments in chemotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
• Successful treatment of autoimmune hepatitis and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura with the monoclonal antibody, rituximab: case report and review of literature.

Clinical Trials

• Detection of Either the EML4-ALK Gene Rearrangements or the T790M EGFR Mutation in the Plasma of Advanced NSCLC Patients

Media Releases

Get to know Hematology-Oncologist Dr. Luis E. Raez, who serves the population of Pembroke Pines, Florida. Dr. Raez graduated from Facultad De Medicina De La Univ Peruana Cayetano in Peru where he received his completed his Medical Degree in 1992, giving him over two decades of experience in his field. After obtaining his Medical Degree he then completed his internal medicine internship and residency with the Jackson Memorial Hospital. Wanting to further his training he then completed his Oncology and Hematology fellowship with Jackson Memorial Hospital. He is dual certified in internal medicine and medical oncology from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Raez currently practices with the Memorial Healthcare System. A hematologist-oncologist who is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention of blood diseases and cancers such as iron-deficiency anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. They will be trained in hematology, the study of blood and oncology, the study of cancer, but will specialize in treating blood cancers, such as Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins lymphomas, leukemias and multiple myelomas. A hematologist-oncologist may also specialize in the management of solid tumors.

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