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Dr. Gershon Yehuda Locker MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
2650 Ridge Ave Div. Of Hematology-O Evanston IL, 60201About
Dr. Gershon Locker is an oncologist practicing in Evanston, IL. Dr. Locker specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Locker 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
Harvard Medical School 1973
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Experimental animal models of adriamycin cardiotoxicity.
- Experimental animal models of adriamycin cardiotoxicity.
- Breast surgery in the 'Arimidex, Tamoxifen Alone or in Combination' (ATAC) trial: American women are more likely than women from the United Kingdom to undergo mastectomy.
- Cancer in Jews: introduction and overview.
- Inflammatory bowel disease in Ashkenazi Jews: implications for familial colorectal cancer.
- Results of the ATAC (Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination) trial after completion of 5 years' adjuvant treatment for breast cancer.
- Defining the roles of aromatase inhibitors in the adjuvant treatment of early-stage breast cancer.
- Oxaliplatin-related acute myelogenous leukemia.
- Comprehensive side-effect profile of anastrozole and tamoxifen as adjuvant treatment for early-stage breast cancer: long-term safety analysis of the ATAC trial.
- Phase I trial of fixed dose rate infusion gemcitabine with gefitinib in patients with pancreatic carcinoma.
- Phase II study of esorubicin in patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma and no prior chemotherapy: an Illinois Cancer Council Trial.
- Phase II trial of aminothiadiazole in previously treated and untreated patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma: an Illinois Cancer Council Trial.
- Aziridinylbenzoquinone in recurrent, progressive glioma of the central nervous system. A Phase II study by the Illinois Cancer Council.
- The effect of doxorubicin on hepatic and cardiac glutathione.
- The effect of doxorubicin on hepatic and cardiac glutathione.
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