Dr. Kirby I Bland MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Kirby Bland is a surgical oncologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Bland 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
University of Al-Mustansiriyah College of Medicine 1968
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Microstaging of sentinel lymph nodes.
- Does uninjured skin release proinflammatory cytokines following trauma and hemorrhage?
- Mechanism of adrenal insufficiency following trauma and severe hemorrhage: role of hepatic 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.
- Dehydroepiandrosterone restores immune function following trauma-haemorrhage by a direct effect on T lymphocytes.
- Salutary effects of ATP-MgCl2 on the depressed endothelium-dependent relaxation during hyperdynamic sepsis.
- Sex steroids regulate pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine release by macrophages after trauma-hemorrhage.
- Clinical highlights from the National Cancer Data Base, 1999.
- Is gut the major source of proinflammatory cytokine release during polymicrobial sepsis?
- Trauma-hemorrhage delays wound healing potentially by increasing pro-inflammatory cytokines at the wound site.
- Refining the optimal technical approach for sentinel node localization in breast cancer patients.
- Evolving technology for ultrasound localization and excision of nonpalpable breast cancer.
- The 1999 James Ewing Lecture: in pursuit of molecules of oncogenesis and neoplastic therapy.
- Gender dimorphism in trauma-hemorrhage-induced thymocyte apoptosis.
- Role of protein kinase C in cyclic AMP-mediated suppression of T-lymphocyte activation following burn injury.
- Differential alterations in systemic and regional oxygen delivery and consumption during the early and late stages of sepsis.
Treatments
- Breast Cancer
Fellowships
- ONCOLOGY, UNIV. OF TEXAS, HOUSTON, TX 1976
- UNIV. OF FLORIDA, GAINESVILLE, FL 1973
- University of Texas - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Surg Onc 1976
- University of Texas - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Research Associate 1976
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