Dr. Luciano J Costa MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
619 19TH ST S BIRMINGHAM AL, 35249About
Dr. Luciano Costa is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Charleston, SC. Dr. Costa specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Simultaneous occurrence of Hodgkin disease and tuberculosis: report of three cases.
- Negative results in cancer clinical trials--equivalence or poor accrual?
- Systemic chemotherapy induces microsatellite instability in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of breast cancer patients.
- Impact of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the outcome of Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treated with an imatinib-containing regimen.
- Primary testicular lymphoma and AIDS.
- Iatrogenic immunodeficiency-associated lymphoproliferative disease of the Hodgkin lymphoma-like variant in a patient treated with mycophenolate mofetil for autoimmune hepatitis.
- Efficacy and safety of ciprofloxacin for prophylaxis of polyomavirus BK virus-associated hemorrhagic cystitis in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients.
- Beyond CD34+ cell dose: impact of method of peripheral blood hematopoietic stem
- Effectiveness and safety of high-dose cyclophosphamide as salvage therapy for high-risk multiple myeloma and plasma cell leukemia refractory to new biological agents.
- Clonal diversity analysis using SNP microarray: a new prognostic tool for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
- Association of age with fluorescence in situ hybridization abnormalities in multiple myeloma reveals higher rate of IGH translocations among older patients.
- Risk and outcome of non-Hodgkin lymphoma among classical Hodgkin lymphoma survivors.
- Similar dynamics of intraapheresis autologous CD34+ recruitment and collection efficiency in patients undergoing mobilization with or without plerixafor.
- Inhibition of sphingosine kinase 2 downregulates the expression of c-Myc and Mcl-1 and induces apoptosis in multiple myeloma.
- Changes in the use of radiation therapy for early classical Hodgkin lymphoma in adolescents and young adults: implications for survival and second malignancies.
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