Physician
General Surgery
Dr. Lorraine Tafra, MD
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Lorraine Tafra practices General Surgery. She researched medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She received 7 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Top Doctors:Baltimore Area", "Top Doctors:Washington DC Area", "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". Lorraine Tafra is also published. She has 22 publications published. The lastest publication: "Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy for breast cancer--not yet the standard of care.' She accepts Medicare.
Publications
- A Randomized Prospective Study of Lumpectomy Margin Assessment with Use of MarginProbe in Patients with Nonpalpable Breast Malignancies.
- A Prediction Model for the Presence of Axillary Lymph Node Involvement in Women with Invasive Breast Cancer: A Focus on Older Women.
- Is Oncotype DX Recurrence Score (RS) of Prognostic Value Once HER2-Positive and. Low-ER Expression Patients are Removed?
- Does Breast tumor heterogeneity necessitate further immunohistochemical staining on surgical specimens?
- What is the value of the 21 gene recurrence score in HER2-negative patients?
- Long-term follow-up study of a prospective multicenter sentinel node trial: molecular detection of Breast cancer sentinel node metastases.
- The relationship between quality and cost during the perioperative Breast cancer episode of care.
- American Society of Clinical Oncology-recommended surveillance and physician specialty among long-term Breast cancer survivors.
- Can sentinel node biopsy be avoided in some elderly Breast cancer patients?
- Prognostic implications of isolated tumor cells and micrometastases in sentinel nodes of patients with invasive Breast cancer: 10-year analysis of patients enrolled in...
- Positron emission mammography: a new Breast imaging device.
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Mammography (PEM) for Breast cancer: importance to surgeons.
- Prospective randomized study comparing cryo-assisted and needle-wire localization of ultrasound-visible Breast tumors.
- High-resolution fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with compression ("positron emission mammography") is highly accurate in depicting primary Breast cancer.
- Pilot clinical trial of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission mammography in the surgical management of Breast cancer.
- Surgery: our challenges, our future.
- Identification and characterization of optimal gene expression markers for detection of Breast cancer metastasis.
- Progressive adoption of cryoablative therapy for Breast fibroadenoma in community practice.
- Pilot trial of cryoprobe-assisted Breast-conserving surgery for small ultrasound-visible cancers.
- Who are we and what do we think?
- Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy for Breast cancer--not yet the standard of care.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Ri Hospital Brown University
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
John Wayne Cancer Institute
University Of Pennsylvania
Procedures Preformed
- Biopsy of Breast
- Breast Reconstruction
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
- Excision of Breast Tumor
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Conditions Treated
- Breast Cancer
- Breast Lump
- Carcinoma in Situ
- Crohn's Disease (Regional Enteritis)
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Top Doctors:Baltimore Area
- Top Doctors:Washington DC Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Thomas Jefferson University -
Brown University -
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Anne Arundel Medical Center
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1316946312 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | TAFRA |
| First Name Of The Provider | LORRAINE |
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