Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

Pediatric Hematology & Oncology

Doctor Alan B. Cantor, MD works in the field of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology. He went to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Alan Cantor is a published MD. He published 46 publications, including: 'Tanning accelerators: prevalence, predictors of use, and adverse effects.'

Publications

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• Tanning accelerators: prevalence, predictors of use, and adverse effects.
• Bmi1 promotes erythroid development through regulating ribosome biogenesis.
• The Effect of Increasing Doses of Saw Palmetto Fruit Extract on Serum ProState Specific Antigen: Analysis of the CAMUS Randomized Trial.
• Relationships between Participants' International ProState Symptom Score and BPH Impact Index Changes and Global Ratings of Change in a Trial of Phytotherapy for Men w...
• A Src family kinase-Shp2 axis controls RUNX1 activity in megakaryocyte and T-lymphocyte differentiation.
• Megakaryopoiesis and thrombopoiesis: an update on cytokines and lineage surface markers.
• Role of ZBP-89 in human globin gene regulation and erythroid differentiation.
• Identification of distal cis-regulatory elements at mouse mitoferrin loci using zebrafish transgenesis.
• A Myc network accounts for similarities between embryonic stem and cancer cell transcription programs.
• TIF1gamma controls erythroid cell fate by regulating transcription elongation.
• Insights into GATA-1-mediated gene activation versus repression via genome-wide chromatin occupancy analysis.
• The role and regulation of friend of GATA-1 (FOG-1) during blood development in the zebrafish.
• Differentiation-dependent interactions between RUNX-1 and FLI-1 during megakaryocyte development.
• Common features of megakaryocytes and hematopoietic stem cells: what's the connection?
• Tandem affinity purification of protein complexes in mouse embryonic stem cells using in vivo biotinylation.
• Human fetal hemoglobin expression is regulated by the developmental stage-specific repressor BCL11A.
• TLX1 (HOX11) immortalization of embryonic stem cell-derived and primary murine hematopoietic progenitors.
• Identification of ZBP-89 as a novel GATA-1-associated transcription factor involved in megakaryocytic and erythroid development.
• Antagonism of FOG-1 and GATA factors in fate choice for the mast cell lineage.
• Friend of GATA-1-independent transcriptional repression: a novel mode of GATA-1 function.
• Loss of nuclear p21(Cip1/WAF1) during neoplastic progression to metastasis in gamma-irradiated p21 hemizygous mice.
• Treatment of intermediate-risk proState cancer with brachytherapy without supplemental pelvic radiotherapy: a review of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center experience.
• A complication-free course ensures a survival advantage in patients after regional therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer.
• Pulmonary embolism after major abdominal surgery in gynecologic oncology.
• Selective hepatic artery embolization for treatment of patients with metastatic carcinoid and pancreatic endocrine tumors.
• Burnout in clinical research coordinators in the United States.
• Prediction of radiation sensitivity using a gene expression classifier.
• The efficacy and safety of pain management before and after implementation of hospital-wide pain management standards: is patient safety compromised by treatment based...
• Diagnosing pulmonary embolism: experience with spiral CT pulmonary angiography in gynecologic oncology.
• GATA transcription factors in hematologic disease.
• Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a minimal intervention to prevent smoking relapse: dismantling the effects of amount of content versus contact.
• A randomized controlled trial to increase cancer screening among attendees of community health centers.
• Lysophospholipids are potential biomarkers of ovarian cancer.
• Farnesyltransferase inhibitor tipifarnib is well tolerated, induces stabilization of disease, and inhibits farnesylation and oncogenic/tumor survival pathways in patie...
• Colorectal cancer screening among a sample of community health center attendees.
• Coregulator-dependent facilitation of chromatin occupancy by GATA-1.
• Comparative outcomes analysis of procedures performed in physician offices and ambulatory surgery centers.
• GATA-1 converts lymphoid and myelomonocytic progenitors into the megakaryocyte/erythrocyte lineages.
• p21Cip1 nullizygosity increases tumor metastasis in irradiated mice.
• Indirect economic effects of long-term breast cancer survival.
• GATA-factor dependence of the multitype zinc-finger protein FOG-1 for its essential role in megakaryopoiesis.
• Targeted deletion of a high-affinity GATA-binding site in the GATA-1 promoter leads to selective loss of the eosinophil lineage in vivo.
• Distinct domains of the GATA-1 cofactor FOG-1 differentially influence erythroid versus megakaryocytic maturation.
• Interaction between FOG-1 and the corepressor C-terminal binding protein is dispensable for normal erythropoiesis in vivo.
• Fatal disseminated Candida lusitaniae infection in an infant with chronic granulomatous disease.

Schools

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• Washington University St Louis

• St Louis Chldns Hospital

• Dana Farber Cancer InstChldns Hospital

Conditions Treated

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• Anemia
• Coagulation Disorders (incl. Hemophilia)
• Hypercoagulable State
• Leukocytosis

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Hematology
• Oncology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Boston Children's Hospital
• Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Hospital

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• Boston Children's Hospital
• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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