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Amanda Kong

Amanda Kong MD, MS

Oncology, Surgery
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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Dr. Kong is a Medical College of Wisconsin breast surgical oncologist whose clinical focus consists of breast diseases, including breast cancer. Her research interests include metastatic breast cancer to different lymph node basins, as well as sentinellymph node dissection. Her philosophy in patient care centers around an individualized interdisciplinary approach to provide optimal treatment for the patient.

Her publications are as follows:
Identifying patterns of breast cancer care provided at high-volume hospitals: a classification and regression tree analysis. (Kong AL, Pezzin LE, Nattinger AB) Breast Cancer Res Treat 2015 Oct;153(3):689-98 PMID: 26409836 09/28/2015.
Benign Arterial Calcification on Screening Mammogram: A Marker for Coronary Artery Disease? (Karm D, Marks DS, Wein M, Kong AL) J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2015 May 19: PMID: 26061129 06/11/2015.
A one-to-one mentoring support service for breast cancer survivors. (Amin AL, Neuner J, Duthie EA, Finn VR, Kong AL) WMJ 2014 Oct;113(5):185-9 PMID: 25739161 03/06/2015.
Racial differences in the surgical management of papillary lesions diagnosed by core needle biopsy. (Kong AL, Saving A, Rathke S, Basir Z, Yen TW) Breast J 2015 Mar-Apr;21(2):203-4 PMID: 25639705 02/03/2015.
Benign breast disease. (Amin AL, Purdy AC, Mattingly JD, Kong AL, Termuhlen PM) Surg Clin North Am 2013 Apr;93(2):299-308 PMID: 23464687 03/08/2013.
Impact of internal mammary lymph node drainage identified by preoperative lymphoscintigraphy on outcomes in patients with stage I to III breast cancer. (Kong AL, Tereffe W, Hunt KK, Yi M, Kang T, Weatherspoon K, Mittendorf EA, Bedrosian I, Hwang RF, Babiera GV, Buchholz TA, Meric-Bernstam F) Cancer 2012 Dec 15;118(24):6287-96 PMID: 22648744 PMCID: PMC3913471 06/01/2012.
Socioeconomic and racial differences in treatment for breast cancer at a low-volume hospital. (Kong AL, Yen TW, Pezzin LE, Miao H, Sparapani RA, Laud PW, Nattinger AB) Ann Surg Oncol 2011 Oct;18(11):3220-7 PMID: 21861226 PMCID: PMC3201787 08/24/2011.
Metastatic neuroendocrine tumor found on screening mammogram. (Amin AL, Kong AL) WMJ 2011 Jun;110(3):140-3; quiz 145 PMID: 21749000 07/14/2011.
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