Dr. Karen H Antman M.D.
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
715 Albany St L-103 Boston MA, 02118Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Karen Antman is an oncologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Antman specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Antman manages and oversees the treatment of a cancer patient after he or she has been diagnosed with the disease. Oncologists will care for their patients throughout the course of the disease. Types of oncologists include medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, pediatric oncologists and hematologist oncologists.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Benefits and costs of screening Ashkenazi Jewish women for BRCA1 and BRCA2.
- Dose-intensive therapy for limited-stage small-cell lung cancer: long-term outcome.
- Critique of the high-dose chemotherapy studies in breast cancer: a positive look at the data.
- Prevention with tamoxifen or other hormones versus prophylactic surgery in BRCA1/2-positive women: a decision analysis.
- Decision analysis of tamoxifen for the prevention of invasive breast cancer.
- High-dose chemotherapy in breast cancer: the end of the beginning?
- A critique of the eleven randomised trials of high-dose chemotherapy for breast cancer.
- Randomized trials of high dose chemotherapy for breast cancer.
- Introduction: the history of arsenic trioxide in cancer therapy.
- Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with tumors of the peritoneum: a basis for checklists.
- New biology and therapies in soft tissue sarcomas.
- Overview of the six available randomized trials of high-dose chemotherapy with blood or marrow transplant in breast cancer.
- Imatinib mesylate--a new oral targeted therapy.
- Syngeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for women with metastatic breast cancer.
- High-dose ifosfamide with mesna and granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (recombinant human G-CSF) in patients with unresectable malignant mesothelioma.
Awards
- 1994 Teacher of the Year
- 1996 Jeffrey Gottleib Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer
Treatments
- Sarcoma (bone And Soft Tissue Cancer), Mesothelioma, Breast Cancer
Fellowships
- Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA, Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 1979
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