Dr. Scott Knowles Pruitt M.D., PH.D.
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
508 Fulton St Durham Va Medical Ce Durham NC, 27705Rating
4/5
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Dr. Scott Pruitt is a surgical oncologist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Pruitt 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
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1987
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Enhanced dendritic cell antigen presentation in RNA-based immunotherapy.
- CD40 ligand is essential for generation of specific cytotoxic T cell responses in RNA-pulsed dendritic cell immunotherapy.
- Induction of anti-melanoma CTL response using DC transfected with mutated mRNA encoding full-length Melan-A/MART-1 antigen with an A27L amino acid substitution.
- Sequential delivery of maturation stimuli increases human dendritic cell IL-12 production and enhances tumor antigen-specific immunogenicity.
- Induction of human dendritic cell maturation using transfection with RNA encoding a dominant positive toll-like receptor 4.
- Cotransfection of DC with TLR4 and MART-1 RNA induces MART-1-specific responses.
- Utilizing quantitative polymerase chain reaction to evaluate prostate stem cell antigen as a tumor marker in pancreatic cancer.
- Immunoproteasome down-modulation enhances the ability of dendritic cells to stimulate antitumor immunity.
- Sentinel node biopsy for head and neck melanoma: a systematic review.
- Leukotriene C4 induces migration of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells without loss of immunostimulatory function.
- The effect of metastatic site and decade of diagnosis on the individual burden of metastatic melanoma: contemporary estimates of average years of life lost.
- Impact of anti-CD25 monoclonal antibody on dendritic cell-tumor fusion vaccine efficacy in a murine melanoma model.
- Local secretion of IL-12 augments the therapeutic impact of dendritic cell-tumor cell fusion vaccination.
- Melanoma immunotherapy using mature DCs expressing the constitutive proteasome.
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