January 3, 2025

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Alfred I Neugut

Articles by Alfred I Neugut

The Whipple Procedure

If you are not a physician and you are familiar with the name “Whipple,” it may be in relation to Mr. Whipple, the supermarket manager

The Oral Microbiome And Cancer

Symbiosis is a term we learn in high school biology. It refers to a close, mutually beneficial living arrangement between two different species. Thus, we

Uveal Melanoma

My wife and I recently attended a wedding and ended up sitting next to my good friend Earl, an ophthalmologist, who said he reads my

The Miracle of CAR-T Cell Therapy

In this time of war and problems domestically, we should highlight one ray of hope in the cancer arena, a new therapeutic approach with broad-based

Night Shift Work and Cancer

I have been an early riser for years and decided years ago to take advantage of this and go to work early. As a consequence,

Lynch Syndrome

As a medical student, one of the things in which we reveled was eponyms. These are the names that are given to clinical signs, symptoms

Vesicant Drugs and Venous Access

Not long after I joined the faculty as an oncologist, I had a patient with advanced breast cancer. The main chemotherapy drug we used at

Cemetery Plots

My mother died when I was 8 years old and consequently I have always had an inordinate fascination with death and its trappings. I often

Charles Moertel 5: Carcinoid Tumors

I was lucky enough to attend the 1987 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology when Charles Moertel delivered the annual Karnofsky Memorial