Dr. James Steven Economou MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
200 Medical Plaza #120 Los Angeles CA, 90095Rating
5/5
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Dr. James Economou is a surgical oncologist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Economou 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1980
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Antitumor protection using murine dendritic cells pulsed with acid-eluted peptides from in vivo grown tumors of different immunogenicities.
- Alpha-fetoprotein-specific genetic immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Generation of human T-cell responses to an HLA-A2.1-restricted peptide epitope derived from alpha-fetoprotein.
- p53 selective and nonselective replication of an E1B-deleted adenovirus in hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Characterization of antitumor immunization to a defined melanoma antigen using genetically engineered murine dendritic cells.
- Generation of T-cell immunity to a murine melanoma using MART-1-engineered dendritic cells.
- Immune deviation and Fas-mediated deletion limit antitumor activity after multiple dendritic cell vaccinations in mice.
- Genetic immunotherapy for cancer.
- Adenovirus-interleukin-12-mediated tumor regression in a murine hepatocellular carcinoma model is not dependent on CD1-restricted natural killer T cells.
- Immunosensitization of melanoma tumor cells to non-MHC Fas-mediated killing by MART-1-specific CTL cultures.
- T cell responses to HLA-A*0201-restricted peptides derived from human alpha fetoprotein.
- Fine specificity analysis of an HLA-A2.1-restricted immunodominant T cell epitope derived from human alpha-fetoprotein.
- alpha-Fetoprotein-specific tumor immunity induced by plasmid prime-adenovirus boost genetic vaccination.
- CD40 cross-linking bypasses the absolute requirement for CD4 T cells during immunization with melanoma antigen gene-modified dendritic cells.
- Cancer immunotherapy using gene-modified dendritic cells.
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