Chief of Surgery, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and Clinical Professor of Surgery, UA College of Medicine-Phoenix

General Surgery

Dr. Robert A. Wascher is an expert in the field of General Surgery. He went to medical school at Creighton University School of Medicine. Creighton University School of Medicine is ranked 79/78 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 3 awards: "Fellow", "Top Doctors:Arizona State" and "Fellow (FACS)". Dr. Robert A. Wascher is a published doctor. He has 15 papers published. The most current publication "Tincture of benzoin: clinical and microbiological implications of reusable containers."

Publications

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• Long-term morbidity of sentinel node biopsy versus complete axillary dissection for unilateral breast Cancer.
• Historical perspective and current management of traumatic injury to the extraperitoneal rectum and anus.
• Pitfalls in the use of rt-PCR as a prognostic indicator in melanoma.
• A case of mistaken identity: giant cystic pheochromocytoma.
• Molecular diagnosis of micrometastasis in the sentinel lymph node.
• Molecular tumor markers in the blood: early prediction of disease outcome in melanoma patients treated with a melanoma vaccine.
• Stanniocalcin-1: a novel molecular blood and bone marrow marker for human breast Cancer.
• Detection of MAGE-A3 in breast Cancer patients'' sentinel lymph nodes.
• Molecular detection of metastatic melanoma cells in cerebrospinal fluid in melanoma patients.
• Tincture of benzoin: clinical and microbiological implications of reusable containers.
• Air rifle pellet injury to the heart with retrograde caval migration.
• Recurrent cutaneous leiomyosarcoma.
• Multiple synchronous unusual extranodal sites of relapse in a patient with mantle cell lymphoma.
• Hereditary neoplasia syndromes and the role of the surgeon.

Schools

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• Creighton University School Of Medicine

• Letterman Army Med Center

• Brooke Army Med Center

• Tripler Army Med Center

• John Wayne Cancer Institute

Procedures Preformed

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• Adrenalectomy
• Appendectomy, Open
• Biopsy of Breast
• Breast Reconstruction
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Conditions Treated

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• Abdominal Pain
• Adrenal Gland Cancer
• Anal and Rectal Cancer
• Anal Fissure
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Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow
• Top Doctors:Arizona State
• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Tripler Army Medical Center
• Creighton University School of Medicine

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