Internal Medicine / Oncology

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Douglas R. Adkins, MD

Specialty Areas
Sarcoma
Thyroid Cancer
Bone Sarcoma
Head and Neck Oncology
Medical Oncology

Areas of Clinical Interest
Medical oncology, bone sarcomas, soft tissue sarcomas, thyroid cancer, head and neck cancer

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Awards

Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2005 - 2010 (Best Doctors, Inc)

1995 Recipient, Dinah Kukes Grant, Phi Mu Foundation

1992 Recipient, American Society of Clinical Oncology Travel Grant

1989 American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Fellowship Recipient

1985 Alpha Omega Alpha

1984 Academy of Medicine Award, Wright State University School of Medicine

1984 Montgomery County Medical Society Auxiliary Internal Medicine Scholarship

Peer Reviewed Articles

Vij R, DiPersio JF, Venkatraman P, Trinkaus K, Goodnough LT, Brown RA, Khoury HJ, Devine SM, Oza A, Shenoy S, Blum W, Adkins D. Donor CMV serostatus has no impact on CMV viremia or disease when prophylactic granulocyte transfusions are given following allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. Blood 2003; 101:2067-2069

Devine SM. Adkins DR. Khoury H. Brown RA. Vij R. Blum W. DiPersio JF. Recent advances in allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Journal of Laboratory & Clinical Medicine. 2003; 141(1):7-32

Blum W, Brown R, Lin HS, Zehnbauer B, Khoury H, Goodnough LT, Westervelt P, Vij R, DiPersio J, Adkins D: Low-Dose (550 cGy), single-exposure total body irradiation and cyclophosphamide: consistent, durable engraftment of related donor peripheral blood stem cells with treatment-related mortality and fatal organ toxicity. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2002; 8:608-618

Reece DE, Foon KA, Battacharya-Chatterjee M, Adkins D, Broun ER, Connaghan DG, DiPersio JF, Holland HK, Howard DS, Hale GA, Klingemann HG, Munn RK, Raptis A, Phillips GL. Interim analysis of the use of the anti-idiotype breast cancer vaccine 11D10 (TriAb) in conjunction with autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with metastic breast cancer. Clin Breast Cancer 2001; 2:52-58

Khoury H, Adkins DR, Brown R, Pence H, Vij R, Goodnough LT, Westervelt P, Trinkaus K, Lin HS, DiPersio J. Low incidence of transplantation-related acute complications in patients with chronic myeeloid leukemia undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation with a low-dose (550 cGy) total body irradiation conditioning regimen. Biol Blood Marrow Transplantt 2001; 7:352-358

Westervelt P, Brown RA, Adkins DR, Khourry H, Curtin P, Hurd D, Luger SM, Ma MK, Ley TJ, DiPersio JF. Sudden death among patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia treated with arsenic trioxide. Blood 2001; 98:266-271

Khoury H, Kashyap A, Adkins DR, Brown RA, Miller G, Vij R, Westervelt P, Trinkaus K, Goodnough LT, Haayashi RJ, Parrker P, Forman SSJ, DiPersio JF. Treatment of steroid-resistant acute graft-versus-hot disease with anti-thymocyte globulin. Bone Marrow Transplant 2001; 27:1059-1064

Books and Book Chapters

Spitzer G, Meehan K, Adkins D. High-dose theraapy for Primary and Metastatic Breast Cancer. In: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. July 2000 eds. Ho AD, Haas R and Champlin RE, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY

Adkins DR, Brown R, Goodnough T, DiPersio J. Use of Filgrastim (r-metHuG-CSF) in Neutroophil Transfusions. IN:Filgrastim (R-metHuG-CSF) in Clinical Practice, Second Edition, pp 149-164, 1998, eds. Morstyn G and Dexter M, Marcel DDekkerr, Inc, New York, NY

 Selected Journal Articles

Adkins D, Goodnough LT, Shenoy S, Brown R, Moellering J, Khoury H, Vij R, DiPersio J. Effect of leukocyte compatibility on neutrophil increment after transfusion of G-CSF mobilized prophylactic granulocyte transfusions and on clinical outcomes after stem cell transplant. Blood, 2000; 95:3605-3612

Bodo I, Peters M, Radich J, Hess J, Blinder M, Watson M, Van Rheeden R, Natarajan S, Lowell J, Brown R, DiPersio J, Adkins D. Donor-derived acute promyelocytic leukemia in a liver transplant recipient. N Engl J Med 1999; 341:807-813

Adkins D, Brown R, Trinkaus K, Maziarz R, Luedke S, Freytes C, Needles B, Wienski D. Fracasso P, Pluard T, Moriconi W, Ryan T, Hoelzer K, Safdar S, Rearden T, Rodriguez G, Khoury H, Vij R, DiPersio J. Outcomes of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplant in Stage III-B inflammatory breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 1999; 17:2006-2014

For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. Adkins

Douglas R. Adkins, MD