Dr. William F Cassano M.D.
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
11984 Long Lake Dr Reisterstown MD, 21136About
Dr. William Cassano is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Reisterstown, MD. Dr. Cassano 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. Cassano treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Cassano 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
Duke University School of Medicine 1977
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Etoposide, cyclophosphamide, cisplatin, and doxorubicin as neoadjuvant chemotherapy for osteosarcoma.
- Alternative method of gestational age assessment by the measurement of human erythrocyte differentiation antigen expression.
- Graft-versus-host disease.
- Intravenous ribavirin therapy for adenovirus cystitis after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
- Characterization of a new T-lineage glycoprotein expressed in mature T-cell leukemias and lymphomas.
- Specific killing of neuroblastoma cells in vitro by immunotoxins.
- Murine monoclonal anti-avidin antibodies enhance the sensitivity of avidin-biotin immunoassays and immunohistologic staining.
- Serious methotrexate toxicity caused by interaction with ibuprofen.
- Establishment of donor hematopoiesis after hydroxyurea-induced aplasia following allograft failure in a patient with monosomy 7 variant of childhood chronic myelogenous leukemia.
- Clonal trisomy 8 is associated with myeloid phenotype rather than the neoplastic transformation in acute leukemia.
- Cystic fibrosis and the plague.
- A biochemical simulation system.
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