 For Appointments
617-724-4800
Fax
617-724-1079
Office Address
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Division of Surgical Oncology
55 Fruit Street, YAW 7
Boston, MA 02114
Clinical Interests
Breast Cancer Surgery;
Reducing the Extent of Surgery and Radiation for Breast Cancer; High Risk Patients
Education
MD Degree: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1983
PhD Degree: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1983
Postdoctoral Training
Residency: General Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Board Certification
Surgery,1999, 2000
My Publications
Link to PubMed Database
Selected Publications
Dees EC, Shulman LS, Souba WW, Smith BL. "Does Information from Axillary Dissection Change Treatment in Clinically Node-Negative Patients with Breast Cancer", Annals of Surgery 1997, 226:3:279-287
Cady, B, Steele GD, Morrow M, Gardner B, Smith BL, Lee NC, Lawson HW, and Winchester DP. Evaluation of Common Breast Problems: Guidance for Primary Care Physicians, CA 1998, 48:49-60
Cheng LL, Chang IW, Smith BL, Gonzalez RG. "Evaluating Human Breast Ductal Carcinomas with High-Resolution Magic-Angle Spinning Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy", JAMR 1998, 135:194-202
Abeel AA, Smith BL, Gadd MA, Tanabe KK, Ott MJ, Souba WW "Surgical Management of Pylloides Tumors", Arch Surg 1999, 134:487-493
Zhao Y, Verselis SJ. Klar N. Sadowsky NL, Kaelin C, Smith B, Foretova L and Li FP, Nipple Fluid Carcinoembryonic Antigen and Prostate-specific Antigen in Cancer-Bearing Tumor-Free Breasts, in press.
Books and Chapters
Smith BL. Evaluation of Breast Problems In: Gynecology for the Practicing Internist. American College of Physicians publications; 2000.
Smith BL. Benign Breast Disease and Breast Implants, Primary Care of Women, 2nd Edition. K Carlson, S Eisenstadt, editors. WB Saunders; 2001. p. 441-447.
Smith BL. Management of Common Breast Problems and Breast Cancer Prevention. In: Ryden J, Blumenthal PD, editors. Practical Gynecology: A Guide for the Primary Care Physician. Philadelphia: American College of Physicians; 2002.
Smith BL, Souba WW. Breast Procedures, American College of Surgeons Surgery: Principles and Practice. Wilmore DW, Cheung LY, et al, editors. WebMD Corporation; 2002. p.606-619.
Smith BL. Mammography at a crossroad. How do physicians reconcile conflicting study results with the biologic truths of breast cancer? Postgraduate Medicine; 2002.
Lind DS, Smith BL, Souba WW. 5 Breast Complaints. 2 Breast, Skin, Soft Tissue, and Neck. In: Souba WW, Fink MP, Jurkovich, GJ et al, editors. ACS Surgery Online. New York: WebMD Inc.; 2004.
Howard-McNatt M, Hughes KS, Schnaper LA, Jones JL, Gadd M, Smith BL. Breast cancer Treatment in Older Women. In: Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America; 2005. p. 85-102.
Black, D, Smith, BL. Surgical Treatment Options in Young Women with Breast Cancer. In: Breast Cancer in Young Women, Breast Disease, Special Issue on Breast Cancer in Young Women. 23:37-45, 2006.
Golshan, M, Smith BL. Prevention and Management of Lymphedema in the Patient with Breast Cancer. In: J Supportive Onc. 2006. In press.
Iglehart JD, Smith BL. The Breast. In: Townsend, Beauchamp, Evers, Mattox, editors. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. Elsevier; 2006. In Press.
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