Dr. Charles Stewart Fuchs MD MPH
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
333 CEDAR ST NEW HAVEN CT, 06510About
Dr. Fuchs is Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He also leads the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center ...
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A phase I study of gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with metastatic solid tumors.
- Prospective study of bowel movement, laxative use, and risk of colorectal cancer among women.
- Cost-effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer in the general population.
- Coffee and alcohol consumption and the risk of pancreatic cancer in two prospective United States cohorts.
- Physical activity, obesity, height, and the risk of pancreatic cancer.
- Calcium intake and risk of colon cancer in women and men.
- Gallstones, cholecystectomy, and the risk for developing pancreatic cancer.
- Chemotherapy options for gastric cancer.
- Outcomes and toxicity in african-american and caucasian patients in a randomized adjuvant chemotherapy trial for colon cancer.
- Aspirin, other NSAIDs, and ovarian cancer risk (United States).
- Dietary sugar, glycemic load, and pancreatic cancer risk in a prospective study.
- A phase II study of troglitazone, an activator of the PPARgamma receptor, in patients with chemotherapy-resistant metastatic colorectal cancer.
- A prospective study on supplemental vitamin e intake and risk of colon cancer in women and men.
- Preclinical and clinical pharmacodynamic assessment of L-778,123, a dual inhibitor of farnesyl:protein transferase and geranylgeranyl:protein transferase type-I.
- A Phase I study of 9-nitrocamptothecin given concurrently with capecitabine in patients with refractory, metastatic solid tumors.
Awards
- Lee Nadler Extra Mile Award, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 2007
- Tisch Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research, Dana-Fa 2007
- George P. Canellos Award for Excellence in Clinical Investigation and 1999
- Academic Award, Preventive Oncology, National Institutes of Health 1995
- Emil Frei Clinical Investigator Award, DFCI 1995
- Emil Frei Clinical Investigator Award.
- American Cancer Society Grant.
- Academic Award in Preventive Oncology.
- Bradford Paterson Fellowship.
- Ann Huber Foster Fellowship.
- Irving Jannock Fellowship.
- Lee Nadler Extra Mile Award
- Tisch Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research
- Partners in Excellence Award
- George Canellos Award in Clinical Medicine
Treatments
- Gastrointestinal Cancer
- Stomach Cancer
Fellowships
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Hematology/Oncology
- Dana Farber Cancer Instit 1989
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