Nathan A. Berger, MD, Distinguished University Professor and Hanna-Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Oncology, is Director of the Case Western Reserve University Center for Science, Health and Society. He obtained the MD degree from Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, interned at Michael Reese Medical Center, Chicago, IL, and served as a medical resident and Hematology/Oncology Fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Dr. Berger was a research associate in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Gerontology Research Center, NICHD, NIH, Baltimore, MD. He was on the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine, before moving to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine where he served consecutively as Chief, Hematology/Oncology Division, Cancer Center Director, Dean, CWRU School of Medicine and now Director, Center for Science, Health and Society. His research focuses on model systems to study impact of diet, obesity and exercise on aging and cancer and studies to translate and evaluate these observations in human subjects
Karen H. Lu, MD, is Professor in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, where she holds the J. Taylor Wharton Distinguished Chair in Gynecologic Oncology. Her main clinical interests include the surgical and medical treatment of women with ovarian and endometrial cancers, as well as the management of women at genetically high risk for these cancer. Dr. Lu completed her undergraduate training at Harvard University and received her MD degree from Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology training at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She serves as Co-Director for the MD Anderson Clinical Cancer Genetics Program and Director of the High Risk Ovarian Cancer Screening Clinic. She is a national leader in the cancer genetics field and has published seminal articles on hereditary gynecologic cancers. In addition, she serves as Director of the Uterine Cancer Research Program (UCRP) and Principal Investigator of the NCI-sponsored Uterine Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE). She leads a research team that aims to apply laboratory-based findings to improve the care of gynecologic cancer patients. She serves on the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Cancer Prevention Committee, the NCI PDQ Editorial Board for Cancer Genetics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Gynecological Practice Bulletins.
Ann H. Klopp, MD, Ph D, is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. She is a physician-scientist specializing in the treatment of gynecologic cancers with laboratory research focus on energy balance and gynecologic malignancies. Clinically, she is interested in the management of high-risk endometrial and cervical cancers and the use of advanced radiation techniques to minimize toxicity. She leads the Global Oncology program in the Division of Radiation Oncology. She has extensive experience with clinical trials, serving as the PI on a phase III randomized study through the NRG as well as multiple investigator initiated single arm prospective studies at MD Anderson. She is a member of the Corpus steering committee at NRG and the Uterine Task Force of the Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee at NIH. Her current laboratory research on the impact of obesity and the microenvironment on gynecologic cancers using clinical specimens and murine models is funded by CPRIT, the American Cancer Society and the HPV moonshot program at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
3 Ebooks de Karen H. Lu
Nathan A. Berger & Ann H. Klopp: Focus on Gynecologic Malignancies
Gynecologic malignancies, especially endometrial and ovarian cancers are among the most important and most severely affected by obesity. This volume of Energy Balance and Cancer, written by the world …
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€149.79
Karen H. Lu: Hereditary Gynecologic Cancer
Hereditary Gynecologic Cancer: Risk, Prevention and Management fills the need that exists for a book addressing highly relevant clinical issues associated with the new field of hereditary gynecologic …
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€219.87
Robert Coleman & Charles F. Levenback: Prognostic and Predictive Factors in Gynecologic Cancers
Gynecologic oncology takes a fresh look at a critical aspect of cancer treatment planning. An international team of authors reviews the traditional prognostic and predictive factors such as tumor gra …
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€69.33