
Dr. Karen Kuhn Ballen MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
55 Fruit St Yaw 7 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Karen Ballen is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Ballen 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Manipulation of the stem cell as a target for hematologic malignancies.
- Variables to predict engraftment of umbilical cord blood into immunodeficient mice: usefulness of the non-obese diabetic--severe combined immunodeficient assay.
- Neuroendocrine carcinoma in a patient with hairy cell leukemia: a case report.
- New trends in umbilical cord blood transplantation.
- Adhesion receptor expression by CD34+ cells from peripheral blood or bone marrow
- Treatment-related myelodysplasia/AML in a patient with a history of breast cancer and an oligodendroglioma treated with temozolomide: case study and review of the literature.
- Double cord blood transplants: filling a niche?
- Preinfusion variables predict the predominant unit in the setting of reduced-intensity double cord blood transplantation.
- Advances in umbilical cord blood transplantation.
- Autologous SCT with a dose-reduced BU and CY regimen in older patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- High-resolution HLA matching in double-umbilical-cord-blood reduced-intensity transplantation in adults.
- The role of HLA in umbilical cord blood transplantation.
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.
- No increased mortality from donor or recipient hepatitis B- and/or hepatitis C-positive serostatus after related-donor allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.
- The expanding frontier of hematopoietic cell transplantation.
Clinical Trials
- A Dose-Ranging Study of IV BNZ-1 in LGL Leukemia or Refractory CTCL
- Safety Study of Unlicensed, Investigational Cord Blood Units Manufactured by the NCBP for Unrelated Transplantation
- Ibrutinib Before and After Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
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