
Dr. Melanie Plunkett Lux MD
Anesthesiologist
6977 Main St Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Melanie Lux is an anesthesiologist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Lux ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Lux also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine 1992
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevention and therapy for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and women at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer.
- Population frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in immuno-modulatory genes.
- Awareness of breast cancer incidence and risk factors among healthy women.
- Use of intensified early cancer detection in high-risk patients with familial breast and ovarian cancer.
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: which diagnostic procedures can be used?
- Assessment of breast cancer tumor size depends on method, histopathology and tumor size itself*.
- [Prophylactic surgery of mammary and ovarian carcinoma].
- Patients' attitudes to totally implantable venous access port systems for gynecological or breast malignancies.
- Association of complementary methods with quality of life and life satisfaction in patients with gynecologic and breast malignancies.
- Changes in satisfaction in patients with gynaecological and breast malignancies: an analysis with the Socio-Economic Satisfaction and Quality of Life questionnaire.
- Single nucleotide polymorphism D1853N of the ATM gene may alter the risk for breast cancer.
- Polymorphisms in the novel serotonin receptor subunit gene HTR3C show different risks for acute chemotherapy-induced vomiting after anthracycline chemotherapy.
- Factors correlating with reexcision after breast-conserving therapy.
- Accuracy of radiological tumour size assessment and the risk for re-excision in a cohort of primary breast cancer patients.
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