Dr. Frank M. Torti MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
263 FARMINGTON AVE FARMINGTON CT, 06030About
Dr. Frank Torti is an oncologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Torti specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Torti 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1974
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transcriptional regulation of the mouse ferritin H gene. Involvement of p300/CBP adaptor proteins in FER-1 enhancer activity.
- Recent advances in the treatment of prostate cancer.
- Adenovirus E1A blocks oxidant-dependent ferritin induction and sensitizes cells to pro-oxidant cytotoxicity.
- Coordinate transcriptional and translational regulation of ferritin in response to oxidative stress.
- Ferritin and the response to oxidative stress.
- Response of hormone refractory prostate cancer to lycopene.
- p53-independent apoptosis mediated by tachpyridine, an anti-cancer iron chelator.
- Radio frequency ablation of lung metastases from renal cell carcinoma.
- Use of green fluorescent protein to measure tumor growth in an implanted bladder tumor model.
- Activation of caspase pathways during iron chelator-mediated apoptosis.
- Regulation of ferritin genes and protein.
- Ferritin binds to light chain of human H-kininogen and inhibits kallikrein-mediated bradykinin release.
- Synthesis of 1,3,5-cis,cis-triaminocyclohexane N-pyridyl derivatives as potential antitumor agents.
- Nrf2 mediates the induction of ferritin H in response to xenobiotics and cancer chemopreventive dithiolethiones.
- Phase II trial of radio frequency ablation of renal cancer: evaluation of the kill zone.
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