Dr. Ann Marilyn Leitch MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
5323 Harry Hines Blvd Dallas TX, 75390About
Dr. Ann Leitch is a surgical oncologist practicing in Dallas, TX. Dr. Leitch specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer-related symptoms. Surgical oncologists also decide if the patient is a candidate for surgery or other cancer treatments based on certain factors such as age, physical fitness and other possible coexisting medical conditions
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Breast cancer screening: success amid conflict.
- Breast cancer: screening and early detection.
- What's new in surgical oncology.
- MRI vs. histologic measurement of breast cancer following chemotherapy: comparison with x-ray mammography and palpation.
- Validating the performance of the mammary sentinel lymph node team.
- Loss of heterozygosity in benign breast epithelium in relation to breast cancer risk.
- Patient and duct selection for nipple duct lavage.
- Patient variables that predict atypical cytology by nipple duct lavage.
- Society of Surgical Oncology: position statement on prophylactic mastectomy. Approved by the Society of Surgical Oncology Executive Council, March 2007.
- Controversies in breast surgery.
- Delays in time to treatment and survival impact in breast cancer.
- Axillary dissection vs no axillary dissection in women with invasive breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis: a randomized clinical trial.
- Aesthetic subunit of the breast: an analysis of women's preference and clinical implications.
- American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and the community surgeon.
- Volume of excision and cosmesis with routine cavity shave margins technique.
Awards
- 2008-2011 Texas Super Doctors
Treatments
- Breast Cancer, Breast Issues, Skin Cancer And More
Fellowships
- University of TX M D Anderson Ctr, Surgical Oncology 1985
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