Dr. Lee M Krug MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
1275 York Ave New York NY, 10021About
My primary responsibility as a thoracic oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering is to care for patients with lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma. I also run clinical trials that test novel drugs ...
Education and Training
Washington Univ Sch Of Med- St Louis Mo 1994
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Vaccine therapy for small cell lung cancer.
- An overview of chemotherapy for mesothelioma.
- Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors: What (little) do we know?
- Analysis of GD2/GM2 synthase mRNA as a biomarker for small cell lung cancer.
- Surgery in the management of small cell lung cancer.
- Histone deacetylase inhibitors in malignant pleural mesothelioma: preclinical rationale and clinical trials.
- A phase I study of obatoclax mesylate, a Bcl-2 antagonist, plus topotecan in solid tumor malignancies.
- The evolution of multimodality therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma.
- A phase II study of obatoclax mesylate, a Bcl-2 antagonist, plus topotecan in relapsed small cell lung cancer.
- Novel therapies in phase II and III trials for malignant pleural mesothelioma.
- Phase II trial of temozolomide in patients with relapsed sensitive or refractory small cell lung cancer, with assessment of methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase as a potential biomarker.
- Pleural intensity-modulated radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma.
- New strategies in pleural mesothelioma: BAP1 and NF2 as novel targets for therapeutic development and risk assessment.
- Toxicity of initial chemotherapy in older patients with lung cancers.
- Pleurectomy/decortication, chemotherapy, and intensity modulated radiation therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: rationale for multimodality therapy incorporating lung-sparing surgery.
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- Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
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