Dr. Merlin R. Hamre M.D.
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Childrens Hospital Of Michigan 3901 Beaubien Blvd - Detroit MI, 48201About
Dr. Merlin Hamre is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Detroit, MI. Dr. Hamre 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. Hamre treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Hamre 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
Univ of Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1985
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Early deaths in childhood cancer.
- Cutaneous melanoma in childhood and adolescence.
- Brachytherapy control of a hemangiopericytoma of the tongue in a child.
- Second malignant neoplasms after primary central nervous system malignancies of childhood and adolescence.
- Intraspinal hematomas in hemophilia.
- Bilateral risk for subsequent breast cancer after lobular carcinoma-in-situ: analysis of surveillance, epidemiology, and end results data.
- Pregnancy outcomes in female childhood and adolescent cancer survivors: a linked cancer-birth registry analysis.
- Reproductive outcomes in male childhood cancer survivors: a linked cancer-birth registry analysis.
- Malignant pancreatic tumors in children and young adults: evaluation of 228 patients identified through the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Result (SEER) database.
- Effects of radiation on ovarian function in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childrens Cancer Study Group.
- Blunt abdominal trauma due to a goat assault.
- Resistance to inhibitors of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase in C1300 murine neuroblastoma tumor cells is associated with increased methionine adenosyltransferase activity.
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