Dr. Adam Irwin Riker MD
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
1542 TULANE AVE NEW ORLEANS LA, 70112Rating
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About
Dr. Adam Riker is a surgical oncologist practicing in Oak Lawn, IL. Dr. Riker 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 South Florida (Usf) Medicine
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Management of tracheobronchial strictures and fistulas: a report and review of literature.
- Isolation and culture of melanoma cell lines.
- Expression of gp100 and CDK2 in melanoma cells is not co-regulated by a shared promoter region.
- Immunotherapy as part of a multidisciplinary approach to melanoma treatment.
- Melanoma patients with positive sentinel nodes who did not undergo completion lymphadenectomy: a multi-institutional study.
- Immunostimulatory effects of CpG-ODN upon dendritic cell-based immunotherapy in a murine melanoma model.
- Down-regulation of pro-apoptotic genes is an early event in the progression of malignant melanoma.
- Roscovitine inhibits differentiation and invasion in a three-dimensional skin reconstruction model of metastatic melanoma.
- Comparative methodologies of regulatory T cell depletion in a murine melanoma model.
- The gene expression profiles of primary and metastatic melanoma yields a transition point of tumor progression and metastasis.
- Phenotypic and functional analysis of dendritic cells and clinical outcome in patients with high-risk melanoma treated with adjuvant granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor.
- Activated stat-3 in melanoma.
- The impact of genomics in understanding human melanoma progression and metastasis.
- Identification of novel epigenetically modified genes in human melanoma via promoter methylation gene profiling.
- Successful removal of a giant intrathoracic lipoma: a case report and review of the literature.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Skin Cancer, Cancer, Melanoma
Fellowships
- SURGERY, SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, BETHESDA, MD 1996
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