
Dr. Thomas Richard Spitzer MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
55 Fruit St Zero Emerson Place S Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Thomas Spitzer is an oncologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Spitzer specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Spitzer manages and oversees the treatment of a cancer patient after he or she has been diagnosed with the disease. Oncologists will care for their patients throughout the course of the disease. Types of oncologists include medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, pediatric oncologists and hematologist oncologists.
Education and Training
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1974
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1974
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hematology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mixed lymphohaemopoietic chimerism and graft-versus-lymphoma effects after non-myeloablative therapy and HLA-mismatched bone-marrow transplantation.
- Late onset veno-occlusive disease following high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation.
- High-dose cyclophosphamide + carboplatin and interleukin-2 (IL-2) activated autologous stem cell transplantation followed by maintenance IL-2 therapy in metastatic breast carcinoma - a phase II study.
- Nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplant strategies and the role of mixed chimerism.
- Double-blind, randomized, parallel-group study on the efficacy and safety of oral granisetron and oral ondansetron in the prophylaxis of nausea and vomiting in patients receiving hyperfractionated total body irradiation.
- Panel reactive antibodies in women with ovarian cancer undergoing high-dose chemotherapy with peripheral stem cell rescue: a case control study.
- Treatment of renal-cell cancer by transplantation of allogeneic stem cells.
- Engraftment syndrome following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
- Successful pregnancy after high-dose cyclophosphamide, carboplatinum, and taxol with peripheral blood stem cell transplant in a young woman with ovarian carcinoma.
- Successful allogeneic stem cell transplantation with nonmyeloablative conditioning in patients with relapsed hematologic malignancy following autologous stem cell transplantation.
- Non-myeloblative induction of mixed hematopoietic chimerism: application to transplantation tolerance and hematologic malignancies in experimental and clinical studies.
- High-dose carboplatin and regimen-related toxicity following autologous bone marrow transplant.
- Dose-escalated total body irradiation and autologous stem cell transplantation for refractory hematologic malignancy.
- The expanding applications of non-myeloablative stem cell transplantation.
- Impact of prophylactic donor leukocyte infusions on mixed chimerism, graft-versus-host disease, and antitumor response in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies treated with nonmyeloablative conditioning and allogeneic bone marrow transplant
Treatments
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (aml)
- Lymphoma
- Multiple Myeloma
- Leukemia
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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- Arthur T. Skarin44 Biney Street Boston Massachusetts 02115
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