Dr. Richard L Schilsky MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527About
Dr. Richard Schilsky is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Willowbrook, IL. Dr. Schilsky specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Medical Oncology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Safety and efficacy of using a single agent or a phase II agent before instituting standard combination chemotherapy in previously untreated metastatic breast cancer patients: report of a randomized study--Cancer and Leukemia Group B 8642.
- The oral fluoropyrimidines in cancer chemotherapy.
- A multicenter phase II study of a five-day regimen of oral 5-fluorouracil plus eniluracil with or without leucovorin in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
- Multicenter phase II study to evaluate a 28-day regimen of oral fluorouracil plus eniluracil in the treatment of patients with previously untreated metastatic colorectal cancer.
- Pharmacology and clinical status of capecitabine.
- Eniluracil: an irreversible inhibitor of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase.
- Immunotherapy for colorectal cancer.
- Antineoplastic drugs administered during pregnancy.
- Phase I study of ZD9331 on short daily intravenous bolus infusion for 5 days every 3 weeks with fixed dosing recommendations.
- Phase II study of oral eniluracil, 5-fluorouracil, and leucovorin in patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma.
- Recommendation for caution with irinotecan, fluorouracil, and leucovorin for colorectal cancer.
- Silence is golden: gene hypermethylation and survival in large-cell lymphoma.
- End points in cancer clinical trials and the drug approval process.
- First-line oral capecitabine therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer: a favorable safety profile compared with intravenous 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin.
- Tumor markers as clinical cancer tests--are we there yet?
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