Gretchen G. Kimmick, MD, MS

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Department / Division:
Medicine / Medical Oncology

Address:
DUMC 3204
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-668-6688

Office Telephone:
919-668-0718

Fax Telephone:
919-681-0874

• MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (North Carolina), 1989

• Internal Medicine, Shands Teaching Hospitals, University of Florida, 1989-1992

• Medical Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (North Carolina), 1992-1994

• MS, Epidemiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (North Carolina), 2000

Clinical Interests:
Breast cancer, with particular interest in breast cancer in the underserved and elderly and in management of symptoms in breast cancer survivors

Research Interests:
Breast cancer; treatment of breast cancer; management of menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors; survivorship issues after breast cancer; supportive care in managment of cancer patients; breast cancer and treatment of cancer in older persons; diagnosis and management of cancer in underserved populations.

Representative Publications:
Kimmick G, Hughes K, Muss HB:  Breast cancer in older women.  In:  Harris JR, Lippman ME, Morrow M, Osborne CK, eds.  Diseases of the Breast. Third Edition.  Philadelphia:  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004: 1323-1338.

(2004)

Kimmick GG, Muss HB:  Breast Disease.  In: Hazzard WR, Blass JP, Ettinger WH Jr., Halter JB, Ouslander JG, eds.  Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Fifth edition.  New York, NY:  McGraw-Hill, 2003: 685-694. (2003)

Kimmick G:  Chemotherapy/Pharmacology slide set for ASCO Curriculum:  Cancer Care in the Older Patient, BJ Kennedy, Curriculum Editor, release November/December, 2002. (2002)

Kimmick G:  Breast Cancer.  In:  Hunter , Johnson , Muss HB, eds.  Cancer in the Elderly.  New York, NY:  Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2000:  233-265. (2000)

Kimmick G, Balducci L:  Clinical interactions of cancer and age: breast cancer.  In:  Balducci L, Extermann M, eds.  Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America: Cancer and Aging.  Philadelphia:  W. B. Saunders, 2000:213-234.   (2000)

Kimmick GG, Muss HB:  Endocrine therapy in metastatic breast cancer.  In:  Rosen ST, Lurie RH, eds.  Biological and Hormonal Therapies of Cancer.  Boston:  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998:231-254. (1998)