Dr. Oscar F Ballester M.D.
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
1400 Hal Greer Blvd Huntington WV, 25701About
Dr. Oscar Ballester is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Huntington, WV. Dr. Ballester 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
National University of Cordova MD
University of Central Florida College of Medicine 1988
Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences 1971
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adoptive immunotherapy with donor lymphocyte infusions and interleukin-2 after high-dose therapy and autologous stem cell rescue for multiple myeloma.
- Randomized clinical trials for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: lessons to be learned from the European experience.
- RBC and WBC fatty acid composition following consumption of an omega 3 supplement: lessons for future clinical trials.
- Lymphocyte subpopulation abnormalities in sickle cell anemia: a distinctive pattern from that of AIDS.
- Impaired IgM antibody responses to an influenza virus vaccine in adults with sickle cell anemia.
- Sickle cell anemia: recurrent splenic pain relieved by splenectomy.
- Sickle cell anemia: recurrent splenic pain relieved by splenectomy.
- Anergy, zinc deficiency, and decreased nucleoside phosphorylase activity in patients with sickle cell anemia.
- Recent progress in multiple myeloma.
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the older person: a review.
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in elderly patients.
- Two novel high-dose treatment regimens for metastatic breast cancer--ifosfamide, carboplatin, plus etoposide and mitoxantrone plus thiotepa: outcomes and toxicities.
- Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for multiple myeloma.
- Cost-effectiveness of white cell-reduction filters in treatment of adult acute myelogenous leukemia.
- Type III hypersensitivity reaction with the use of interferon-alpha.
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