Dr. David H. Harpole Jr. is a Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs and a member of the Division of the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Duke University Health System. He is also an Associate Professor of Surgery, Thoracic Oncology Program and an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Dike University, but Director of the Lung Cancer Prognostic Research laboratory too.
Dr. Harpole Jr. is a graduate of the University Of Virginia School Of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1984. He also attended the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His residency was completed in General Surgery at the Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Harpole did his fellowship training in thoracic surgery at Duke University and another one in thoracic oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, at Harvard Medical School. Now he is board certified in surgery and thoracic surgery and a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Society of the Thoracic Surgeons.
The medical interests of Dr. Harpole are: thoracic oncology, general thoracic surgery, benign and malignant diseases of the lung, mesothelioma cancer, esophagus and mediastinum, advanced thorascopy surgery and esophageal cancer. He is also studying the non small cell lung cancer, serum and tissue molecular biological markers of recurrence in patients.
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Mesothelioma (cancer of the mesothelium) is a disease in which cells of the mesothelium become abnormal and divide without control or order. They can invade and damage nearby tissues and organs. Cancer cells can also metastasize (spread) from their original site to other parts of the body. Most cases of mesothelioma begin in the pleura or peritoneum.
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