Armstrong is a medical oncologist at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore.
Brentjens, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and lead author of the study.
Prior to definitive surgery, you should meet with a medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, geneticist (if you are at risk for the breast cancer gene), and reconstructive surgeon.
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Dr Michael Seckl, a medical oncologist, and his team at the hospital found that treating cancerous cells with Taxol and stem cell infusion - an advanced form of bone marrow transplantation - was successful.
Susan Hellman , Genentech's chief medical officer, was an oncologist, and speaks passionately about the need for new cancer drugs.
Dr. Tyler Curiel is an oncologist at Tulane Medical Center, one of the few hospitals in the city that is still in operation.
Philip Kantoff, a urological oncologist at Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, is conducting a big clinical trial that should firmly establish whether and how much Provenge helps patients.
"I think that Avastin's a good drug, and I think we just need to figure out whom to give it to, " says Melody A. Cobleigh , an oncologist at Rush Medical College in Chicago who worked on the trial.
Part of our news team included a cameraman who was a former military sniper, a radio host who was there for the first Gulf War, a translator who was also an oncologist with a medical pass, and a driver who was also a former driver for the UN weapons inspection team (who also loved Elvis).
"Radiation is now as good as surgery, and that wasn't the case 15 years ago, " says Daniel Shasha, a radiation oncologist at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
But the approval may not be a sure thing, according to Daniel Petrylak, an oncologist at Columbia University Medical Center, because Dendreon's studies did not meet their main pre-specified goal: a slowing of tumor progression.
"They say, 'Well, we'll tell her it's just a cold, or it's just a virus, or we'll tell her she'll have surgery and then everything will be fine, '" said Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.
While it is too soon to tell whether it works, the oncologist leading the effort, Michael Jensen at City of Hope National Medical Center near Los Angeles, is so hopeful that he aims to test similar treatments within a year in children with leukemia and glioma, an aggressive brain tumor.
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