Dr. Matthew Peter Holtzman MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
5150 Centre Ave Pittsburgh PA, 15232About
Dr. Matthew Holtzman is a surgical oncologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Holtzman 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
Education and Training
State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine MD
University at Buffalo State University of New York School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 1999
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Single-incision laparoscopic right colectomy in an unselected patient population.
- Single-incision laparoscopic splenectomy: preliminary experience in consecutive
- Analysis of outcomes for single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) right colectomy reveals a minimal learning curve.
- Gastric Adenocarcinoma in patients with Roux-en-Y Gastric bypass: A case series.
- Surgical resection improves median overall survival with marginal improvement in long-term survival when compared with definitive radiotherapy in Merkel cell carcinoma: A propensity score matched analysis of the National Cancer Database.
Treatments
- Melanoma
- Skin Cancer
- Colon Cancer
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