Dr. Peter Gary Shields MD
Oncologist | Medical Oncology
3800 Reservoir Rd Nw Lombardi Ll Level Ro Washington DC, 20007About
Dr. Peter Shields is an oncologist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Shields specializes in the care and treatment of patients with cancer. As an oncologist, Dr. Shields 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
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1983
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Exposures associated with serum organochlorine levels among postmenopausal women from western New York State.
- Skilled use of DNA polymorphisms as a tool for polygenic cancers.
- Tobacco smoking, harm reduction, and biomarkers.
- Molecular epidemiology of smoking and lung cancer.
- The risk of breast cancer associated with dietary lignans differs by CYP17 genotype in women.
- Pharmacogenetic investigation of smoking cessation treatment.
- Dopamine transporter genotype as a risk factor for obesity in African-American smokers.
- Microsomal epoxide hydrolase variants are not associated with risk of breast cancer.
- Bleomycin-induced chromosome breaks as a risk marker for lung cancer: a case-control study with population and hospital controls.
- Food mutagens.
- CYP17 genetic polymorphism, breast cancer, and breast cancer risk factors.
- Smoking, alcoholism and genetic polymorphisms alter CYP2B6 levels in human brain.
- Effects of dopamine transporter and receptor polymorphisms on smoking cessation in a bupropion clinical trial.
- Diet and alcohol consumption in relation to p53 mutations in breast tumors.
- Association of metabolic gene polymorphisms with tobacco consumption in healthy controls.
Treatments
- Lung Cancer
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