Alexander Drilon - Pocket Oncology

Pocket

ONCOLOGY

Editors:

N EIL V ASAN , MD, PhD

Chief Medical Oncology Fellow

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

M ARIA I. C ARLO , MD

Assistant Attending Physician

Genitourinary Oncology Service

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Advisors:

A LEXANDER E. D RILON , MD

Clinical Director, Early Drug Development Service

Assistant Attending, Thoracic Oncology Service

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

M ICHAEL A. P OSTOW , MD

Assistant Attending

Physician Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Vasan, Neil, editor. | Carlo, Maria I., editor.

Title: Pocket oncology / editors, Neil Vasan, Maria I. Carlo ; advisors,

Alexander E. Drilon, Michael A. Postow.

Other titles: Pocket notebook.

Description: 2. | Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2018] | Series: Pocket

notebook | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017055849 | ISBN 9781496391063

Subjects: | MESH: Neoplasms | Handbooks

Classification: LCC RC263 | NLM QZ 39 | DDC 616.99/4dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017055849

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Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD

Assistant Member

Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program and Leukemia Service

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Ghassan Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Associate Attending Physician

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Associate Professor

Department of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

New York, New York

Rajiv Agarwal, MD

Medical Oncology Fellow

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Caroline Andrew, MD

Chief Resident

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Kathryn C. Arbour, MD

Medical Oncology Fellow

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Scott T. Avecilla, MD, PhD

Medical and Scientific Director, Cell Therapy Laboratory Services

Director, Donor Room and Apheresis Services

Department of Laboratory Services

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Shirin Bajaj, MD

PGY-2 Resident

Department of Dermatology

New York University

New York, New York

Dean Bajorin, MD, FACP

Attending Physician

Genitourinary Oncology Service

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Professor of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medical College

Caroline C. Barbosa, MD

Neuro-Oncology Fellow

Department of Neurology

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

David A. Barron, MD, PhD

Radiation Oncology Resident

Department of Radiation Oncology

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Ellin Berman, MD

Professor

Leukemia Service

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Kristen K. Beyer, PharmD, BCOP

Chief Medical Officer

Healthy Business Group

Sag Harbor, New York

Ankush Bhatia, MD

Neuro-Oncology Fellow

Department of Neurology

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Agata A. Bielska, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology Fellow

Department of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York

Mark H. Bilsky, MD

William E. Snee

Chair

Attending

Department of Neurosurgery

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Professor

Department of Neurosurgery

Weill Medical College of Cornell University