Dr. John Tyson Vetto MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
3181 Sw Sam Jackson Park Rd Portland OR, 97239Rating
5/5
About
Dr. John Vetto is a surgical oncologist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Vetto 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
Or Hlth Sci Univ Sch of Med, Portland Or 1982
Oregon Health And Science University School of Medicine,Portland, Or, United States 1982
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Clinical experiences of medical students in Oregon with dying patients.
- Office-based wire-guided open breast biopsy under local anesthesia is accurate and cost effective.
- Prevention of local recurrence after surgical debulking of nodal and subcutaneous melanoma deposits by hypofractionated radiation.
- Assessing the need for Clinical Breast Examination (CBE) training: the Oregon experience.
- A stoic patient.
- Usefulness of preoperative lymphoscintigraphy for the identification of sentinel lymph nodes in melanoma.
- Usefulness of the triple test score for palpable breast masses; discussion 1012-3.
- Survival in human colorectal cancer correlates with expression of the T-cell
- Beyond doughnuts: tumor board recommendations influence patient care.
- Metastatic breast cancer manifested as refractory anemia and gastric polyps.
- Comparing the cost-effectiveness of the triple test score to traditional methods for evaluating palpable breast masses.
- Surgical outcomes of a breast cancer-screening program for low-income women.
- Primary sarcomas of the breast in women under 20 years of age.
- Looking to our annual meeting and beyond.
- Sidney L. Saltzstein, MD, MPH receives 2004 Margaret Hay Edwards Achievement medal.
Treatments
- Melanoma
- Skin Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Colon Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Pain
- Lipoma
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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