Dr. Debra L Friedman MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
2525 West End Ave Suite 600 Nashville TN, 37203Rating
5/5
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Dr. Debra Friedman is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Friedman specializes in treating children that have a blood disease or cancer. Such blood diseases include disorders of red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets. The types of cancers that Dr. Friedman treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Friedman can also treat bleeding disorders in children. Pediatric hematologists can be found in childrens hospitals, community hospitals, university medical centers and more.
Education and Training
Umdnj-Robt W Johnson Med Sch- New Brunswick Nj 1991
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Chemoreduction plus focal therapy for retinoblastoma: factors predictive of need for treatment with external beam radiotherapy or enucleation.
- Ciprofloxacin and amoxicillin as continuation treatment of febrile neutropenia in pediatric cancer patients.
- The Minneapolis-Manchester Quality of Life instrument: reliability and validity of the Adolescent Form.
- The Minneapolis-Manchester Quality of Life instrument: Reliability and validity of the Youth Form.
- Complementary and alternative medicine in pediatric oncology: availability and institutional policies in Canada--a report from the Children's Oncology Group.
- Maternal and perinatal characteristics in relation to neuroblastoma.
- Monitoring diagnostic accuracy and complications. A report from the Children's Oncology Group Hodgkin lymphoma study.
- Employment status among adult survivors in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
- Obesity and hypertension among children after treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Breast cancer surveillance practices among women previously treated with chest radiation for a childhood cancer.
- Radiation-related treatment effects across the age spectrum: differences and similarities or what the old and young can learn from each other.
- Is there a role for a specialized follow-up clinic for survivors of pediatric cancer?
- Increased cardiometabolic traits in pediatric survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with total body irradiation.
- Body mass index and blood pressure changes over the course of treatment of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Tp53 codon-72 polymorphisms identify different radiation sensitivities to g2-chromosome breakage in human lymphoblast cells.
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