Michael T. Jaklitsch, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Thoracic Surgeon, Thoracic Surgery, Brigham And Women's Hospital
Contact Info
Michael Jaklitsch
Brigham And Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA, 02115
Mailstop: CA 257
Phone: 617-732-6988
Fax: 617-730-2898
Email not available
Administrative Assistant
Thoracic Surgery
Brigham And Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA, 02115
Phone: 617-732-6988
Fax: 617-730-2898
jwiggin@partners.org
Brigham And Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA, 02115
Mailstop: CA 257
Phone: 617-732-6988
Fax: 617-730-2898
Email not available
Assistant
Julie WigginAdministrative Assistant
Thoracic Surgery
Brigham And Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA, 02115
Phone: 617-732-6988
Fax: 617-730-2898
jwiggin@partners.org
DF/HCC Program Affiliation
Lung CancerCancer Cell Biology
Research Abstract
The elderly patient is particularly susceptible to suffer morbidity after major thoracic surgical procedures. Previous work from Brigham & Women's Hospital has shown that this subgroup has a thirteen-fold higher incidence of postoperative dementia after non-cardiac thoracic surgery. The full recovery time from major thoracic surgical procedures is poorly understood in this subgroup. This is an extremely pertinent issue. Current data are unavailable to advise the eighty-five-year-old patient with a presumed early stage lung cancer as to which treatment option may be expected to maximize the future quality of life. New instruments of measurement are required to address these issues. I am currently developing clinical measurements of the elderly patient's functional status, motivation for surgery, understanding of surgery, and quality of life. I plan to test these measurements in our outpatient elderly population over the next year.Publications
- Moore KA, Mery CM, Jaklitsch MT, P Estocin A, Bueno R, Swanson SJ, Sugarbaker DJ, Lukanich JM.Menopausal effects on presentation, treatment, and survival of women with non-small cell lung cancer.Ann Thorac Surg 2003 Dec;76(6):1789-95.
14667585 - Gordon GJ, Richards WG, Sugarbaker DJ, Jaklitsch MT, Bueno R.A prognostic test for adenocarcinoma of the lung from gene expression profiling data.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 Sep;12(9):905-10.
14504202 - Soiffer R, Hodi FS, Haluska F, Jung K, Gillessen S, Singer S, Tanabe K, Duda R, Mentzer S, Jaklitsch M, Bueno R, Clift S, Hardy S, Neuberg D, Mulligan R, Webb I, Mihm M, Dranoff G.Vaccination with irradiated, autologous melanoma cells engineered to secret
12947071 - Jaklitsch MT, Mery CM, Audisio RA.The use of surgery to treat lung cancer in elderly patients.Lancet Oncol 2003 Aug;4(8):463-71.
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