Zin W. Myint, MD

About

Zin Myint, MBBS, earned her medical degree from the University of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar. She completed her internal medicine residency at Medstar Union Memorial/Good Samaritan hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at University of Kentucky where she also served as a Chief fellow during her final year of fellowship. Additionally, Dr. Myint completed a Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) physician externship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that focused on designing clinical trials and clinical research projects.

She is a medical oncologist focusing on genitourinary malignancies – prostate, kidney, bladder, and testicular cancers. She is also a clinical researcher and her interest is to develop early phase clinical trials in prostate, bladder and kidney cancers. Her ultimate goal is to provide treatments that improve quality and prolong the lives of patients.

Faculty Rank

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine

Training & Education

Degree

University of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)

Residency

Internal Medicine, Medstar Health/Union Memorial Hospital Program, Baltimore, Md.

Fellowship

Hematology and Oncology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

Certifications and Special Training

American Board of Internal Medicine

Research

Contact Information

Publications

  1. Disparities in prostate cancer survival in Appalachian Kentucky: a population-based study.
    Myint ZW, O'Neal R, Chen Q, Huang B, Vanderpool R, Wang P.
    Rural Remote Health. 2019 May;19(2):4989. doi: 10.22605/RRH4989. Epub 2019 May 12.
    PMID:31078134
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  2. Integrating a 92-Gene Expression Analysis for the Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors of Unknown Primary
    Chauhan A, Farooqui Z, Silva SR, Murray A, Hodges KB, Yu Q, Myint ZW, Raajesekar AK, Weiss H, Arnold S, Evers BM, Anthony L.
    Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2019 Jan 25;20(1):113-116.
    PMID:30678389
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  3. Management of Diffuse Idiopathic Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia: Review and a Single Center Experience.
    Myint ZW, McCormick J, Chauhan A, Behrens E, Anthony LB.
    Lung. 2018 Oct;196(5):577-581. doi: 10.1007/s00408-018-0149-z. Epub 2018 Aug 25. Review.
    PMID:30167840
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  4. Copper deficiency anemia: review article.
    Myint ZW, Oo TH, Thein KZ, Tun AM, Saeed H.
    Ann Hematol. 2018 Sep;97(9):1527-1534. doi: 10.1007/s00277-018-3407-5. Epub 2018 Jun 29. Review.
    PMID:29959467
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