Dr. Douglas J Schwartzentruber M.D.
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
535 BARNHILL DR INDIANAPOLIS IN, 46202About
Dr. Douglas Schwartzentruber is a surgical oncologist practicing in Goshen, IN. Dr. Schwartzentruber 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
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1982
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Brain metastasis after immunotherapy in patients with metastatic melanoma or renal cell cancer: is craniotomy indicated?
- MHC class I-restricted recognition of a melanoma antigen by a human CD4+ tumor infiltrating lymphocyte.
- Decreased tolerance to interleukin-2 with repeated courses of therapy in patients with metastatic melanoma or renal cell cancer.
- High-dose interleukin-2 is an intensive treatment regardless of the venue of
- Guidelines for the safe administration of high-dose interleukin-2.
- Identification of dynamically distinct subpopulations of T lymphocytes that are differentially affected by HIV.
- Clinical pathways for managing patients receiving interleukin 2.
- Safety and efficacy of high-dose interleukin-2 therapy in patients with brain metastases.
- Inability to immunize patients with metastatic melanoma using plasmid DNA
- Immunization of patients with metastatic melanoma using both class I- and class II-restricted peptides from melanoma-associated antigens.
- Cancer vaccines.
- Recognition of shared melanoma antigens by human tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.
- Gastrointestinal perforations associated with interleukin-2 administration.
- Phase III randomized trial of patient-specific vaccination for previously untreated patients with follicular lymphoma in first complete remission: protocol summary and interim report.
- The use of interleukin-2 and lymphokine-activated killer cells for the treatment of patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Treatments
- Melanoma
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