Dr. Douglas Scott Tyler MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
508 Fulton St Durham NC, 27705About
Dr. Douglas Tyler is a surgical oncologist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Tyler 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
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Foregut carcinoids: a clinical and biochemical analysis.
- Gastrointestinal carcinoids: characterization by site of origin and hormone production.
- Identification of higher risk thin melanomas should be based on Breslow depth not Clark level IV.
- Management of node-positive melanoma in the era of sentinel node biopsy.
- Neoadjuvant chemoradiation for rectal cancer: analysis of clinical outcomes from a 13-year institutional experience.
- Validation of delayed sentinel lymph node mapping for melanoma.
- Neoadjuvant chemoradiation for localized adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
- Complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation for rectal cancer does not influence survival.
- Staging of pancreatic cancer before and after neoadjuvant chemoradiation.
- Clinical utility of positron emission tomography in the diagnosis and management of periampullary neoplasms.
- Carcinoid and chylous ascites: an unusual association.
- Dendritic cell gene therapy.
- Pancreatic cancer since Halsted: how far have we come and where are we going?
- Dendritic cells pulsed with pancreatic cancer total tumor RNA generate specific antipancreatic cancer T cells.
- Pancreatic duct strictures: identifying risk of malignancy.
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