Dr. Walter L Longo MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
600 Highland Ave Madison WI, 53792About
Dr. Walter Longo is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Madison, WI. Dr. Longo 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
Univ of Ne Coll of Med, Omaha Ne 1977
University of Nebraska College of Medicine 1977
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- Fludarabine and cytarabine as a sequential infusion regimen for treatment of adults with recurrent, refractory or poor prognosis acute leukemia.
- A novel preparative regimen for autologous transplant in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: long-term experience with etoposide and thiotepa.
- Phase II study of weekly low-dose paclitaxel for relapsed and refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a Wisconsin Oncology Network Study.
- Excessive toxicity of the high dose thiotepa and etoposide regimen when combined with radiation: Long-term autologous transplantation experience in follicular and mantle cell lymphoma.
- Pathophysiology and management of fever revisited.
- Correlation between rash and a positive drug response associated with bevacizumab in a patient with advanced colorectal cancer.
- Thalidomide maintenance following high-dose melphalan with autologous stem cell support in myeloma.
- F-18 FDG PET imaging of GVHD-associated polymyositis.
- Retrospective analysis of fluoroquinolone prophylaxis in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
- Acute tumor lysis syndrome and treatment response in patients treated for refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia with short-course, high-dose cytosine arabinoside, cisplatin, and etoposide.
- Cytomegalovirus-associated tubulointerstitial nephritis in an allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipient.
- Phase I trial of lonidamine with whole body hyperthermia in advanced cancer.
- Role of the spleen in the transdiaphragmatic spread of Hodgkin's disease.
- Retrovirus-mediated transfer of the cDNA for human glucocerebrosidase into peripheral blood repopulating cells of patients with Gaucher's disease.
Treatments
- Anemia
- Breast Cancer
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (aml)
- Lymphoma
- Immunodeficiency
- Multiple Myeloma
- Leukemia
- Dermal Aesthetics
- Oral Surgery Procedures
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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