Associate Professor, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
Pediatric Hematology & Oncology
Dr. Mehmet Okcu, MD
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Mehmet Okcu practices Pediatric Hematology & Oncology. Doctor Mehmet Okcu, MD is a published MD. He has 58 publications published. The most current publication "Attenuation of WAF1/Cip1 expression by an antisense adenovirus expression vector sensitizes glioblastoma cells to apoptosis induced by chemotherapeutic agents 1,3-bis(..."
Publications
- Does Routine Imaging of Patients for Progression or Relapse Improve Survival in RhabdomyoSarcoma?
- Inpatient versus outpatient vincristine, dactinomycin, and cyclophosphamide for pediatric Cancers: Quality and cost implications.
- Long-term Disease control and toxicity outcomes following surgery and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in pediatric craniopharyngioma.
- BCOR-CCNB3 fusions are frequent in undifferentiated Sarcomas of male children.
- Proton Beam Therapy Versus Conformal Photon Radiation Therapy for Childhood Craniopharyngioma: Multi-institutional Analysis of Outcomes, Cyst Dynamics, and Toxicity.
- Outcomes and Acute Toxicities of Proton Therapy for Pediatric Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor of the Central Nervous System.
- Examination of HFE associations with childhood leukemia risk and extension to other iron regulatory genes.
- Genetic markers in a multi-ethnic sample for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk.
- Maternal and birth characteristics and childhood rhabdomyoSarcoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group.
- Cost minimization analysis of two treatment regimens for low-risk rhabdomyoSarcoma in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group.
- Do longer formula feeding and later introduction of solids increase risk for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia?
- Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in pediatric low-grade glioma.
- Long-term outcome of centrally located low-grade glioma in children.
- Glutathione S-transferase P1 single nucleotide polymorphism predicts permanent ototoxicity in children with Medulloblastoma.
- Maternal and offspring xenobiotic metabolism haplotypes and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Algorithm for analysis of administrative pediatric Cancer hospitalization data according to indication for admission.
- Guidelines for identification of, advocacy for, and intervention in neurocognitive problems in survivors of childhood Cancer: a report from the Children''s Oncology Gr...
- Sex-specific attention problems in long-term survivors of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Risk classification at the time of diagnosis differentially affects the level of residual Disease in children with B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia after compl...
- Folate pathway genetic polymorphisms are related to attention disorders in childhood leukemia survivors.
- Primary disseminated intradural malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the spine in a child: case report and review of the literature.
- Increased pulmonary artery pressures among adolescents with Sickle cell disease.
- Differential increase of Fas ligand expression on metastatic and thin or thick primary melanoma Cells compared with interleukin-10.
- Screening for neurocognitive impairment in pediatric Cancer long-term survivors.
- Hyperglycemia during induction therapy is associated with poorer survival in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia.
- Ototoxicity after intensity-modulated radiation therapy and cisplatin-based chemotherapy in children with Medulloblastoma.
- Expression of Bcl-2-related genes in normal and AML progenitors: changes induced by chemotherapy and retinoic acid.
- Overexpressed WAF1/Cip1 renders glioblastoma Cells resistant to chemotherapy agents 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea and cisplatin.
- Molecular epidemiology of glioblastoma.
- Local control after craniospinal irradiation, intensity-modulated radiotherapy boost, and chemotherapy in childhood Medulloblastoma.
- Dual-specificity phosphatase 26 is a novel p53 phosphatase and inhibits p53 tumor suppressor functions in human neuroblastoma.
- Elevated expression of CXC chemokines in pediatric Osteosarcoma patients.
- Attenuation of WAF1/Cip1 expression by an antisense adenovirus expression vector sensitizes glioblastoma Cells to apoptosis induced by chemotherapeutic agents 1,3-bis(...
- Aurora A is a negative prognostic factor and a new therapeutic target in human neuroblastoma.
- Hyperglycemia during induction therapy is associated with increased infectious complications in childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia.
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy in childhood ependymoma.
- Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms and survival in primary malignant glioma.
- A meta-analysis of MTHFR C677T and A1298C polymorphisms and risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children.
- LipoSarcoma in children and young adults: a multi-institutional experience.
- Local control after intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head-and-neck rhabdomyoSarcoma.
- Glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 polymorphisms may predict adverse effects after therapy in children with Medulloblastoma.
- Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms are associated with survival in anaplastic glioma patients.
- Neuroblastoma-derived secretory protein messenger RNA levels correlate with high-risk neuroblastoma.
- Synovial Sarcoma in children and adolescents: thirty three years of experience with multimodal therapy.
- Associations between vaccination and childhood Cancers in Texas regions.
- Folate pathway polymorphisms predict deficits in attention and processing speed after childhood leukemia therapy.
- Height impairment after lower dose cranial irradiation in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- CXCR4 expression in neuroblastoma primary tumors is associated with clinical presentation of bone and bone marrow metastases.
- Synovial Sarcoma in children: surgical lessons from a single institution and review of the literature.
- Survival prediction in patients with glioblastoma multiforme by human telomerase genetic variation.
- Comparison of birth weight corrected for gestational age and birth weight alone in prediction of development of childhood leukemia and central Nervous system tumors.
- Flow cytometry and fluorescence in situ hybridization to detect residual neuroblastoma Cells in bone marrow.
- Synovial Sarcoma of childhood and adolescence: a multicenter, multivariate analysis of outcome.
- Birth weight, ethnicity, and occurrence of Cancer in children: a population-based, incident case-control study in the State of Texas, USA.
- RhabdomyoSarcoma.
- To share or not to share: A randomized trial of consent for data sharing in genome research.
- Risk analysis of severe myelotoxicity with temozolomide: the effects of clinical and genetic factors.
Schools
Istanbul University Istanbul Medical Faulty
University Tex Health Science Center
University Tex MD Anderson Cancer Center
Conditions Treated
- Anemia
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Cancer
- Liver Cancer
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Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Hematology
- Oncology
Accepted Insurances
Education
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University of Texas Health Science Center -
Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Texas Children's Hospital
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