Alan Bennett Astrow MD

PubMed

• Cancer-Associated Thromboembolic Disease and the Evolution of Management.
  Omar Gandarilla, Evelyn Taiwo, Manish A Parikh, Alan B Astrow, William H Frishman
  Cardiology in Review. 2025-11-22
• 1 citations
  Spiritual needs and satisfaction with life: an exploration of mediating pathways.
  Gary Kwok, Alan B Astrow, Daniel P Sulmasy, Katie A Devine
  Supportive Care in Cancer. 2025-11-06
• Market, Gift, Everyday Ethics, and Emmanuel Levinas in Patient Care.
  Alan B Astrow
  Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2023-08-20

Journal Articles

• Book review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2016
• Jewish Values, Empathy, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2015
• The Achievement of Daniel Callahan  
  Astrow AB, Society, 1/1/2014

Books/Book Chapters

• Conversations in Palliatiave Care 
  Chapter: Spirituality 
  Astrow AB, Garvin G, Smith EEditors: Panke,J. T. & Coyne, P..Pohl Publishing, Pensacola, FLEdition 3rd,2011
• American Society of Clinical Oncology 2009 Educational Book, 45th Annual Meeting 
  Chapter: Approaching the spiritual and religious concerns of the patient with cancer: Creating an environment for dialogue regarding spiritual concerns 
  Astrow ABEditors: Ramaswamy Govindan.American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, VA2009
• Conversations in Palliative Care 
  Chapter: Spirituality 
  Astrow AB, Garvin G, Smith EEditors: Panke, J. T. & Coyne, P..Pohl Publishing, Pensacola, FL2004

Abstracts/Posters

• Development and Validation of a Spiritual Needs Assessment Tool in Multiple Languages
  Astrow AB, Sharma RS, Kwok GK, Sulmasy DP, 2nd annual Conference on Religion and Medicine, University of Chicago, 1/1/2013
• Phase II study of RCHOP with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (DRCOP) for patients older than age 60 with untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
  Rodriguez MA, Durand J, Astrow AB, Bury MJ, Fanale MA, Hagemeister FB, Huang X, McLaughlin P, Neelapu SS, Pro B, Kwak Lw, Fayd L, Romaguea Jew, Younes A, Fisch M, ASCO Annual Meeting, 1/1/2011
• The culture of faith and hope: subjects’ justifications for their high estimations of expected benefit in early phase oncology trials
  Sulmasy DP, Astrow AB, He MK, Seils DM, Meropol NJ, Weinfurt KP, Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, 1/13/2009

Lectures

• Inaugural National Conference: Medicine and Religion 
  University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois - 5/23/2012
• Splenectomy is an Effective Treatment for HIV-associated Castleman’s Disease, Roundtable Discussion 
  National Cancer Institute - 1/1/2003

Other

• Fixing Medical Records, Letter to the Sunday Book Review 
  Astrow AB, New York Times
  1/23/2014
• Lincoln’s Pragmatism. Letter to Sunday Book Review 
  Astrow AB, New York Times
  1/3/2013
• Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient, DVD and Teaching Guide 
  Astrow AB and Sulmasy DP
  1/1/2004