Dr. Rodney Francis Pommier MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239About
Dr. Rodney Pommier is a surgical oncologist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Pommier 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
Or Hlth Sci Univ Sch of Med, Portland Or 1983
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Distribution and functional significance of somatostatin receptors in malignant
- High dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate predicts breast cancer progression during new aromatase inhibitor therapy and stimulates breast cancer cell growth in tissue culture: a renewed role for adrenalectomy.
- The impact of hormone replacement therapy on the detection and stage of breast cancer.
- A new score for the evaluation of palpable breast masses in women under age 40.
- Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate causes proliferation of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells despite treatment with fulvestrant.
- Estrogen and androgen receptors as comediators of breast cancer cell proliferation: providing a new therapeutic tool.
- Relationships among delay of diagnosis, extent of disease, and survival in patients with abdominal carcinoid tumors.
- The relationships among clinician delay of diagnosis of breast cancer and tumor size, nodal status, and stage.
- Operative resection of primary carcinoid neoplasms in patients with liver metastases yields significantly better survival.
- Incidence and outcomes of contralateral breast cancers.
- Characterizing the HER2/neu status and metastatic potential of breast cancer stem/progenitor cells.
- The NANETS consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors (nets): well-differentiated nets of the distal colon and rectum.
- Using complications associated with postmastectomy radiation and immediate breast reconstruction to improve surgical decision making.
- Fresh surgical specimens yield breast stem/progenitor cells and reveal their oncogenic abnormalities.
- Laparoscopic surgical exploration is an effective strategy for locating occult primary neuroendocrine tumors.
Clinical Trials
- Study of Efficacy and Safety of PDR001 in Patients With Advanced or Metastatic, Well-differentiated, Non-functional Neuroendocrine Tumors of Pancreatic, Gastrointestinal (GI), or Thoracic Origin or Poorly-differentiated Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma (GEP-NEC)
- Everolimus Roll-over Protocol for Patients Who Have Completed a Previous Novartis-sponsored Everolimus Study.
Treatments
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Colon Cancer
- Diarrhea
- Pain
- Hernia
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