Pool Physician Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Hospital and Clinical Professor, Dept. Neurosurgery, UCSF Medical School and Emeritus Professor, Dept. Neuro-Oncology, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr
Neurology
Dr. Victor A. Levin, MD
Victor A. Levin practices Neurology. He researched medicine at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He received 25 awards: "Faculty Award", "Listing in Americas Top Doctors", "Who's Who in America", "Listing in America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Gold Medal Award for Extraordinary Achievement", "Anne C. Brooks Award", "Burkhardt Visiting Lecture Award", "Gerry Pencer Memorial Lecture", "Heath Memorial Award for Cancer Care", "The First Annual Takao Hoshino Lecturer", "The First Annual Takao Hoshino Lectureship in Japan", "Masters in Oncology Series Visiting Professor", "Best Doctors in America", "400 Best Cancer Doctors", "Fred Plum Lecturer", "David A. Frommer Memorial Lecture in Neuro-Oncology", "Visiting Professorship", "Award in Neuro-Oncology", "Distinguished Lecturer", "Stanley N. Gore Memorial Lecture", "Guy Odom Lecturer", "Medal", "Phi Kappa Phi", "Eagle & Explorer Scout Silver Award" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Victor A. Levin, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 28 publications published. The latest was: CNS Anticancer Drug Discovery and Development Conference White Paper.
Publications
- CNS AntiCancer Drug Discovery and Development Conference White Paper.
- Impact of bevacizumab administered dose on overall survival of patients with progressive glioblastoma.
- Randomized phase II adjuvant factorial study of dose-dense temozolomide alone and in combination with isotretinoin, celecoxib, and/or thalidomide for glioblastoma.
- Getting more out of survival data by using the hazard function.
- Phase 1/1b study of lonafarnib and temozolomide in patients with recurrent or temozolomide refractory glioblastoma.
- Phase 2 trial of irinotecan and thalidomide in adults with recurrent anaplastic glioma.
- A systematic approach to the management of patients with Brain metastases of known or unknown primary site.
- Combination of 6-thioguanine, capecitabine, and celecoxib with temozolomide or lomustine for recurrent high-grade glioma.
- Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of bevacizumab therapy for radiation necrosis of the central Nervous system.
- Different changes in protein and phosphoprotein levels result from serum starvation of high-grade glioma and adenocarcinoma cell lines.
- Melding a New 3-Dimensional Agarose Colony Assay with the E(max) Model to Determine the Effects of Drug Combinations on Cancer Cells.
- A new preclinical 3-dimensional agarose colony formation assay.
- Long-term anti-inflammatory and antihistamine medication use and adult glioma risk.
- Phase II trial of irinotecan and thalidomide in adults with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme.
- Relationship between ornithine decarboxylase levels in anaplastic Gliomas and progression-free survival in patients treated with DFMO-PCV chemotherapy.
- Effect of bevacizumab on radiation necrosis of the Brain.
- Headache related to Brain tumors.
- Tissue-based assay for ornithine decarboxylase to identify patients likely to respond to difluoromethylornithine.
- Polymorphisms of DNA repair genes and risk of glioma.
- 13-cis-retinoic acid in the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma multiforme.
- Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms and survival in primary malignant glioma.
- Hypofractionated radiotherapy for elderly or younger low-performance status glioblastoma patients: outcome and prognostic factors.
- Phase III randomized study of postradiotherapy chemotherapy with combination alpha-difluoromethylornithine-PCV versus PCV for anaplastic Gliomas.
- Stereotactic injection of DTI-015 into recurrent malignant Gliomas: phase I/II trial.
- Posterior fossa decompression for life-threatening tonsillar herniation in patients with gliomatosis cerebri: report of three cases.
- Toward better early-phase Brain tumor clinical trials: a reappraisal of current methods and proposals for future strategies.
- Phase II trial of temozolomide plus the matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor, marimastat, in recurrent and progressive glioblastoma multiforme.
Schools
University of Wisconsin Madison
St Louis City Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Nerve Block, Somatic
Conditions Treated
- Ataxia
- Bell's Palsy
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Injury
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Faculty Award
- Listing in America’s Top Doctors
- Who's Who in America
- Listing in America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Gold Medal Award for Extraordinary Achievement
- Anne C. Brooks Award
- Burkhardt Visiting Lecture Award
- Gerry Pencer Memorial Lecture
- Heath Memorial Award for Cancer Care
- The First Annual Takao Hoshino Lecturer
- The First Annual Takao Hoshino Lectureship in Japan
- Masters in Oncology Series Visiting Professor
- Best Doctors in America
- 400 Best Cancer Doctors
- Fred Plum Lecturer
- David A. Frommer Memorial Lecture in Neuro-Oncology
- Visiting Professorship
- Award in Neuro-Oncology
- Distinguished Lecturer
- Stanley N. Gore Memorial Lecture
- Guy Odom Lecturer
- Medal
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Eagle & Explorer Scout Silver Award
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
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