Ericka Spencer OTR/L
Occupational Therapist
440 CENTRAL AVE LEXINGTON NC, 27292About
Dr. Ericka Spencer practices Occupational Medicine in LEXINGTON, NC. Dr. Spencer evaluates the interaction between work and health. Occupational medicine physicians have general knowledge of worksite operations and are familiar with the toxic properties of materials used by employees and the potential hazards and stressors of work processes; in addition to being qualified to determine an employees physical and emotional fitness for work; diagnosing and treating occupational diseases; handling work related injuries; and having an understanding of rehabilitation methods, health education techniques, sanitation, and workers compensation laws.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Survivin as an immunotherapeutic target for adult and pediatric malignant brain tumors.
- Is cytomegalovirus a therapeutic target in glioblastoma?
- A pilot study of IL-2Rα blockade during lymphopenia depletes regulatory T-cells and correlates with enhanced immunity in patients with glioblastoma.
- Chasing cancer with chimeric antigen receptor therapy.
- Monoclonal antibody therapy for malignant glioma.
- Recognition and killing of autologous, primary glioblastoma tumor cells by human cytomegalovirus pp65-specific cytotoxic T cells.
- Immunological targeting of cytomegalovirus for glioblastoma therapy.
- Increased proportion of FoxP3+ regulatory T cells in tumor infiltrating lymphocytes is associated with tumor recurrence and reduced survival in patients with glioblastoma.
- Bridging infectious disease vaccines with cancer immunotherapy: a role for targeted RNA based immunotherapeutics.
- Novel role of hematopoietic stem cells in immunologic rejection of malignant gliomas.
- Ex vivo generation of dendritic cells from cryopreserved, post-induction chemotherapy, mobilized leukapheresis from pediatric patients with medulloblastoma.
- Differential Immune Microenvironments and Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade among Molecular Subtypes of Murine Medulloblastoma.
- Vaccination strategies for neuro-oncology.
- Disruption of KIF3A in patient-derived glioblastoma cells: effects on ciliogenesis, hedgehog sensitivity, and tumorigenesis.
- MicroRNAs provide a novel pathway toward combinatorial immune checkpoint blockade.
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