Professor of Surgery, University Louisville School of Medicine
General Surgery
Dr. Kelly M. McMasters, MD
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Kelly McMasters practices General Surgery. He studied medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is ranked 74/67 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Top MD" and "Fellow (FACS)". Kelly McMasters is a published physician as well. He has 100 publications published. The latest was: Molecular Staging of Sentinel Lymph Nodes Identifies Melanoma Patients at Increased Risk of Nodal Recurrence. Kelly M. McMasters, MD accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Melanoma Patient-Reported Quality of Life Outcomes Following Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, Completion Lymphadenectomy, and Adjuvant Interferon: Results from the Sunbelt ...
- Final Results of the Sunbelt Melanoma Trial: A Multi-Institutional Prospective Randomized Phase III Study Evaluating the Role of Adjuvant High-Dose Interferon Alfa-2b ...
- Molecular Staging of Sentinel Lymph Nodes Identifies Melanoma Patients at Increased Risk of Nodal Recurrence.
- Combined therapy of oncolytic adenovirus and temozolomide enhances lung cancer virotherapy in vitro and in vivo.
- Infectious complications in combined colon resection and ablation of colorectal liver metastases.
- Risk stratification for readmission after major hepatectomy: development of a readmission risk score.
- Spontaneous mesenteric hematoma associated with recurrent incarcerated inguinal hernia.
- Preoperative dosing of low-molecular-weight heparin in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery.
- The role of hepatic artery lymph node in pancreatic adenocarcinoma: prognostic factor or a selection criterion for surgery.
- Virotherapy targeting cyclin E overexpression in tumors with adenovirus-enhanced cancer-selective promoter.
- Factors predictive of readmission after hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Principles of Surgical Treatment of Malignant Melanoma.
- Adenovirus-Mediated FKHRL1/TM Sensitizes Melanoma Cells to Apoptosis Induced by Temozolomide.
- Is USMLE Step 1 score a valid predictor of success in surgical residency?
- Restrictive blood transfusion protocol in liver resection patients reduces blood transfusions with no increase in patient morbidity.
- Indole-3-carbinol (I3C) increases apoptosis, represses growth of cancer cells, and enhances adenovirus-mediated oncolysis.
- Addition of an Iliac/Obturator Lymph Node Dissection Does Not Improve Nodal Recurrence or Survival in Melanoma.
- A Cost Analysis of Somatostatin use in the Prevention of Pancreatic Fistula after Pancreatectomy.
- Targeting of BRAF resistant melanoma via extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer receptor.
- Age as a Predictor of Sentinel Node Metastasis among Patients with Localized Melanoma: An Inverse Correlation of Melanoma Mortality and Incidence of Sentinel Node Meta...
- Prognostic factors in young women with cutaneous melanoma.
- Comparison of Sentinel Lymph Node Micrometastatic Tumor Burden Measurements in Melanoma.
- Outcomes and prognostic factors in superficial spreading melanoma.
- Stroke volume variation in hepatic resection: a replacement for standard central venous pressure monitoring.
- Molecular factors associated with recurrence and survival following hepatectomy in patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: A guide to adjuvant clinical trials.
- An argument for aggressive resection in melanoma.
- Current management of melanoma.
- Incidence of sentinel lymph node involvement in a modern, large series of desmoplastic melanoma.
- Age as a prognostic factor in patients with localized melanoma and regional metastases.
- Evaluation of Alpha-fetoprotein Staging System for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Noncirrhotic Patients.
- Laparoscopic hepatectomy is a safe and effective approach for resecting large colorectal liver metastases.
- Inhibition of autophagy with chloroquine is effective in melanoma.
- Financial Comparison of Laparoscopic Versus Open Hepatic Resection Using Deviation-Based Cost Modeling.
- Sentinel lymph node status is the most important prognostic factor in patients with melanoma of the scalp.
- Improving Clinical Productivity in an Academic Surgical Practice Through Transparency.
- Diversity of stage III melanoma in the era of sentinel lymph node biopsy.
- Molecular Basis for Viral Selective Replication in Cancer Cells: Activation of CDK2 by Adenovirus-Induced Cyclin E.
- Obesity rather than neoadjuvant chemotherapy predicts steatohepatitis in patients with colorectal metastasis.
- Assessment of Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Liver Metastases in Patients Undergoing Hepatic Resection and the Correlation to Pathologic Residual Viable Tumor.
- Tumor-positive resection margins reflect an aggressive tumor biology in pancreatic cancer.
- Negative effects of transfused blood components after hepatectomy for metastatic colorectal cancer.
- Combined pancreas and liver therapies: Resection and ablation in hepato-pancreatico-biliary malignancies.
- A Phase 2 Trial of Once-Weekly Hypofractionated Breast Irradiation: First Report of Acute Toxicity, Feasibility, and Patient Satisfaction.
- The importance of ulceration of cutaneous melanoma of the head and neck: A comparison of ear (pinna) and nonear sites.
- Identifying mRNA, MicroRNA and Protein Profiles of Melanoma Exosomes.
- Adenovirus-mediated expression of mutated forkhead human transcription like-1 suppresses tumor growth in a mouse melanoma xenograft model.
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma: American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society of Surgical Oncology joint clinical practice guideline.
- Assessment of mitotic rate reporting in melanoma.
- Enhanced cancer cell killing by truncated E2F-1 used in combination with oncolytic adenovirus.
- Unique prognostic factors in acral lentiginous melanoma.
- The lymph node ratio has limited prognostic significance in melanoma.
- Clinicopathologic and survival differences between upper and lower extremity melanomas.
- Lymph node ratio is a significant predictor of disease-specific mortality in patients undergoing esophagectomy for cancer.
- Phase II trial of the regulatory T cell-depleting agent, denileukin diftitox, in patients with unresectable stage IV melanoma.
- Prognostic implications of anatomic location of primary cutaneous melanoma of 1 mm or thicker.
- Extending the role of hepatic metastasectomy in stage IV melanoma and breast cancer: patient selection is critical.
- Impact of histology on survival in retroperitoneal sarcoma.
- Primary tumor size, not race, determines outcomes in women with hormone-responsive breast cancer.
- Readmission rates after abdominal surgery: the role of surgeon, primary caregiver, home health, and subacute rehab.
- Overall survival peri-hilar cholangiocarcinoma: R1 resection with curative intent compared to primary endoscopic therapy.
- Regression does not predict nodal metastasis or survival in patients with cutaneous melanoma.
- Lymphovascular invasion as a prognostic factor in melanoma.
- Safety and efficacy of hepatectomy for colorectal metastases in the elderly.
- Adenoviruses induce autophagy to promote virus replication and oncolysis.
- Recurrence Following Hepatectomy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Development of a Model that Predicts Patterns of Recurrence and Survival.
- Immunotherapy: Tumor-infiltrating T cells-ready for prime time in melanoma?
- The impact of lymphovascular invasion on lymph node status in patients with breast cancer.
- Lymph Node Ratio: A Proposed Refinement of Current Axillary Staging in Breast Cancer Patients.
- E2F-1- and E2Ftr-mediated apoptosis: the role of DREAM and HRK.
- Prognostic Significance of Mitotic Rate in Localized Primary Cutaneous Melanoma: An Analysis of Patients in the Multi-Institutional American Joint Committee on Cancer ...
- Medically managed hypercholesterolemia and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus preoperatively predicts poor survival after surgery for pancreatic cancer.
- A Prospective Phase II Evaluation of Esophageal Stenting for Neoadjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Cancer: Optimal Performance and Surgical Safety.
- Is prior cholecystectomy associated with decreased survival in patients with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma following pancreaticoduodenectomy?
- Importance of low preoperative platelet count in selecting patients for resection of hepatocellular carcinoma: a multi-institutional analysis.
- Precision hepatic arterial irinotecan therapy in the treatment of unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocellular carcinoma: optimal tolerance and prolonged overall survival.
- Early versus delayed complete lymphadenectomy in melanoma: insight from MSLT I.
- Prognostic significance of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in melanoma.
- Phase II comparison study of intraoperative autotransfusion for major oncologic procedures.
- Imaged guided transarterial chemoembolization with drug-eluting beads loaded with doxorubicin (DEBDOX) for hepatic metastases from melanoma: early outcomes from a mult...
- What does ulceration of a melanoma mean for prognosis?
- The prognostic significance of nonsentinel lymph node metastasis in melanoma.
- Hepatectomy is superior to thermal ablation for patients with a solitary colorectal liver metastasis.
- The lower incidence of melanoma in women may be related to increased preventative behaviors.
- Does mitotic rate predict sentinel lymph node metastasis or survival in patients with intermediate and thick melanoma?
- Comparing Prediction Models: The Distinction Between Clinical and Statistical Significance.
- Bile cultures: a guide to infectious complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy.
- Surveillance after surgical treatment of melanoma: futility of routine chest radiography.
- Adenovirus-mediated expression of truncated E2F-1 suppresses tumor growth in vitro and in vivo.
- Ulceration as a predictive marker for response to adjuvant interferon therapy in melanoma.
- Prognostic information from sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with thick melanoma.
- Honor, duty, and purpose in surgery.
- Prior biliary tree instrumentation does not preclude hepatic arterial therapy for malignancy.
- Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors among 2,313 patients with stage III melanoma: comparison of nodal micrometastases versus macrometastases.
- Laparoscopic hepatic lobectomy: advantages of a minimally invasive approach.
- A multicenter analysis of distal pancreatectomy for adenocarcinoma: is laparoscopic resection appropriate?
- Should all patients with melanoma between 1 and 2 mm Breslow thickness undergo sentinel lymph node biopsy?
- Factors associated with false-negative sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma patients.
- Developing adenoviral vectors encoding therapeutic genes toxic to host cells: comparing binary and single-inducible vectors expressing truncated E2F-1.
- Factors associated with recurrence and survival following hepatectomy for large hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter analysis.
Schools
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
University Of Louisville
University Of Louisville Hospital
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Procedures Preformed
- Thoracentesis
Doctors Specialties
- Surgery
- Surgical Oncology
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Top MD
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Louisville -
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Hospital
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Jewish Hospital -
Norton Hospital -
University of Louisville Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1457330094 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | MCMASTERS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | KELLY | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 402025700 | |
| NPPES Provider State | KY | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 61.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 12.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 19.67 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1457330094 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | MCMASTERS |
| First Name Of The Provider | KELLY |
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