Dr. David R Shaffer MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
43 New Scotland Ave Mail Code 7 Albany NY, 12208Rating
5/5
About
Dr. David Shaffer is an oncologist practicing in Albany, NY. Dr. Shaffer specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Shaffer 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.
Education and Training
Physician Assistant Studies, Barry University, FL 1995
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Relationship quality and potentially harmful behaviors by spousal caregivers: how we were then, how we are now. The Family Relationships in Late Life Project.
- On finding for defendants who plead insanity: the crucial impact of dispositional instructions and opportunity to deliberate.
- Caregiver models of self and others, coping, and depression: predictors of depression in children with chronic pain.
- Gender and self-disclosure revisited: personal and contextual variations in self-disclosure to same-sex acquaintances.
- Evidence for a p27 tumor suppressive function independent of its role regulating cell proliferation in the prostate.
- Breaking the rules of cancer.
- Endorsement of proactively aggressive caregiving strategies moderates the relation between caregiver mental health and potentially harmful caregiving behavior.
- Models of self and others and their relation to positive and negative caregiving responses.
- Zbtb7a suppresses prostate cancer through repression of a Sox9-dependent pathway
- Attitudes and attitude change.
- Another look at the impact of juror sentiments toward defendants on juridic
- Interactive effects of ambiguity tolerance and task effort on dissonance reduction.
- Dogmatism and tolerance for ambiguity as determinants of differential reactions to cognitive inconsistency.
- Gender and situational context moderate the relationship between self-monitoring and induction of self-disclosure.
- Activity restriction and prior relationship history as contributors to mental health outcomes among middle-aged and older spousal caregivers.
Treatments
- Prostate Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Anemia
- Breast Cancer
- Brain Tumor
- Bladder Cancer
- Kidney Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Malnutrition
- Testicular Cancer
- Oral Cancer
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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Practice At 43 New Scotland Ave Mail Code 7
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