2012
Distinct oligoclonal T cells are associated with graft versus host disease after stem-cell transplantation., Jennifer L Berrie, Maciej Kmieciak, Roy T Sabo, Catherine H Roberts, Michael O Idowu, Katherine Mallory, Harold M Chung, John M McCarty, Christian A Borrelli, Michelle M Detwiler, A Latif Kazim, Amir Toor MD, and Masoud H Manjili (Article)
Philadelphia Chromosome-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasm with a Novel Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor-β Rearrangement Responsive to Imatinib, Dennis B. Cornfield MD, Usman Shah MD, Nicholas Cross, Courtney E. Bennett DO, and Guoxian Sun (Article)
Risk assessment in human immunodeficiency virus-associated acute myeloid leukemia., Michael W. Evans MD, MPH; Anthony D Sung; Ivana Gojo; Michael Tidwell; Jacqueline Greer; Mark Levis; Judith Karp; and Maria R Baer (Article)
Utility of FDG PET-CT Scan in Determining Pathological Response to Neo-adjuvant Chemo-radiation Therapy in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Eliot L. Friedman MD, Michael F. Szwerc MD, Robert Kruklitis MD, Michael J. Weiss MPH, Robert Rienzo MD, and Wen Young MD (Poster)
Early-phase (EP) clinical trials (CTs) in the community: Results from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) Early-Phase Working Group (EPWG) Baseline Assessment Study (BAS)., Ronald S. Go, Howard Zaren, and Suresh G. Nair MD (Presentation)
Is port site resection necessary in the surgical management of gallbladder cancer?, Ajay V Maker, Jean M Butte, Jacqueline Oxenberg DO, Deborah Kuk, Mithat Gonen, Yuman Fong, Ronald P Dematteo, Michael I D'Angelica, Peter J Allen, and William R Jarnagin (Article)
Immunotherapy of cancer: reprogramming tumor-immune crosstalk., Kyle K Payne, Amir Toor MD, Xiang-Yang Wang, and Masoud H Manjili (Article)
Anti-thymocyte globulin for conditioning in matched unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation provides comparable outcomes to matched related donor recipients., D A Portier, R T Sabo, C H Roberts, D S Fletcher, J Meier, W B Clark, M C Neale, M H Manjili, J M McCarty, H M Chung, and Amir Toor MD (Article)
Community Cancer Services, Clinical Trials, and Quality Initiatives--Year 2 NCCCP at Lehigh Valley Health Network, Ada M. Rivera BA; Lenore A. McGonigle Ms; MaryEllen Shiels BS; Smiyyah Q. Whitney RN; Suresh G. Nair MD; Janelle M. Sharma; Kathy Sevedge RN, MA, AOCN; Eliot L. Friedman MD; Nadesda Mack RN, BSN, MBA, OCN; and Gregory R. Harper MD, PhD (Poster)
Perceived levels of pain associated with bone marrow aspirates and biopsies., Giampaolo Talamo, Jason Liao, Jamal Joudeh, Nicholas Lamparella DO, Hoang Dinh, Jozef Malysz, and W Christopher Ehmann (Article)
Epigenetic induction of adaptive immune response in multiple myeloma: sequential azacitidine and lenalidomide generate cancer testis antigen-specific cellular immunity., Amir Toor MD, Kyle K Payne, Harold M Chung, Roy T Sabo, Allison F Hazlett, Maciej Kmieciak, Kimberly Sanford, David C Williams, William B Clark, Catherine H Roberts, John M McCarty, and Masoud H Manjili (Article)
Favorable outcomes in patients with high donor-derived T cell count after in vivo T cell-depleted reduced-intensity allogeneic stem cell transplantation., Amir Toor MD, Roy T Sabo, Harold M Chung, Catherine Roberts, Rose H Manjili, Shiyu Song, David C Williams, Wendy Edmiston, Mandy L Gatesman, Richard W Edwards, Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez, William B Clark, Michael C Neale, John M McCarty, and Masoud H Manjili (Article)
ACE inhibitor-induced angioedema., Monali Vasekar and Timothy J Craig (Article)
2011
Transformation of the 5q- Syndrome to Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature, Nicole M. Agostino DO, Basil Ahmed MD, Dan Popescu MD, and Shereen M. Gheith MD (Article)
Effect of the Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (sunitinib, sorafenib, dasatinib, and imatinib) on Blood Glucose Levels in Diabetic and Nondiabetic Patients in General Clinical Practice, Nicole M. Agostino DO; Vernon M. Chinchilli PhD; Christopher J. Lynch PhD; Anita M. Koszyk-Szewczyk MD; Rebecca Gingrich RN, MS, OCN; Jeffrey Sivik D Pharma; and Joseph J. Drabick MD, FACP (Article)
Improvements in haemolysis and indicators of erythrocyte survival do not correlate with acute vaso-occlusive crises in patients with sickle cell disease: a phase III randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of the Gardos channel blocker senicapoc (ICA-17043)., Kenneth I Ataga, Marvin Reid, Samir K Ballas, Zahida Yasin, Carolyn Bigelow, Luther St James, Wally R Smith, Frederic Galacteros, Abdullah Kutlar, James H Hull, Jonathan W Stocker, and Maged Khalil MD (Article)
Large vocal fold polyp., Venu Divi, Robert T Sataloff, and Jacqueline Oxenberg DO (Article)
Mid-term Analysis of IIIA NSCLC Patients Treated With Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Followed by Surgical Resection, Eliot L. Friedman MD (Presentation)
Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Patients with Stage IIIA (N2) Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): A Retrospective Analysis with Lessons Learned, Eliot L. Friedman MD, Michael F. Szwerc MD, Charles Andrews MD, Robert Kruklitis MD, Kathleen A. Leies, and Ferdy Santiago (Poster)
PRKN, DJ-1, and PINK1 screening identifies novel splice site mutation in PRKN and two novel DJ-1 mutations., Farzaneh Ghazavi, Zeinab Fazlali, Setareh Sadat Banihosseini, Sayed-Rzgar Hosseini, Mohammad Hossein Kazemi MD, Seyedmehdi Shojaee, Khosro Parsa, Homa Sadeghi, Farzad Sina, Mohammad Rohani, Gholam-Ali Shahidi, Nasser Ghaemi, Mostafa Ronaghi, and Elahe Elahi (Article)
Community Cancer Services, Clinical Trials, and Quality Initiatives—Year 1 NCCCP at Lehigh Valley Health Network, Gregory R. Harper MD, PhD; Ada M. Rivera BA; Eliot L. Friedman MD; Kathleen A. Leies RN, OCN; Nadesda Mack RN, BSN, MBA, OCN; Lenore McGonigle Med; Suresh G. Nair MD; Tara Namey MS, CGC; Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH, FACP; and Ronald W. Swinfard MD, FACP (Poster)
Activated NKT cells and NK cells render T cells resistant to myeloid-derived suppressor cells and result in an effective adoptive cellular therapy against breast cancer in the FVBN202 transgenic mouse., Maciej Kmieciak, Debasmita Basu, Kyle K Payne, Amir Toor MD, Adly Yacoub, Xiang-Yang Wang, Lisa Smith, Harry D Bear, and Masoud H Manjili (Article)
Ex vivo expansion of tumor-reactive T cells by means of bryostatin 1/ionomycin and the common gamma chain cytokines formulation., Maciej Kmieciak, Amir Toor MD, Laura Graham, Harry D Bear, and Masoud H Manjili (Article)
Comment on "Cutting edge: CD8+ T cell priming in the absence of NK cells leads to enhanced memory responses"., Masoud H Manjili and Amir Toor MD (Article)
Exploring therapeutic decisions in elderly patients with non-small cell lung cancer: results and conclusions from North Central Cancer Treatment Group Study N0222., Heidi Mc Kean, Philip J Stella, Shauna L Hillman, Kendrith M Rowland, Michael W Cannon, Robert J Behrens, Gerald G Gross, Mark D Sborov, Eliot L. Friedman MD, and Aminah Jatoi (Article)
2010
Effect of the Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (Sunitinib, Sorafenib, Dasatinib, and Imatinib) on Blood Glucose Levels in Diabetic and Non-diabetic Patients in General Clinical Practice (Poster), Nicole M. Agostino DO; Vernon M. Chinchilli PhD; Christopher J. Lynch PhD; Anita M. Koszyk-Szewczyk MD; Rebecca Gingrich RN, MS, OCN; Jeffery Sivik D Pharma; and Joseph J. Darbick MD, FACP (Poster)
Bevacizumab Demonstrates Prolonged Disease Stabilization in Patients with Heavily Pretreated Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Series and Review of the Literature, Nicole M. Agostino DO and Rebecca Gingrich (Article)
The role of CD40L and VEGF in the modulation of angiogenesis and inflammation., Subrata Chakrabarti, Muhammad A. Rizvi MD, Kristine Morin, Ravi Garg, and Jane E Freedman (Article)
A Front-Line Window of Opportunity Phase 2 Study of Sorafenib in Patients with Advanced Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer: North Central Cancer Treatment Group Study N0326., Grace K. Dy, Shauna L. Hillman, Kendrith M. Rowland, Julian R. Molina, Preston D. Steen MD, Donald B. Wender, Suresh G. Nair MD, Sumithra Mandrekar, Steven E. Schild, and Alex A. Adjei (Article)
Rituximab treatment for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura associated with human immunodeficiency virus failing extensive treatment with plasma exchange: a report of two cases., Michael W. Evans MD, MPH; Leroy B Vaughan; Victoria S Giffi; Ann B Zimrin; and John R Hess (Article)
Multidisciplinary Survivorship Care, Sue N. Gardner RN, MSN, CRNP, AOCNP; Gregory Harper MD, PhD; Dorothy Morrone RNC, MS, OCN; Jennifer Brennan RD, CSO; Andrea Geshan RN, MSW; Diane Brong LCSW; and Jennifer Roeder MSPT, MBA (Poster)
Randomized phase III trial of pegfilgrastim versus filgrastim after autologus peripheral blood stem cell transplantation., Aaron Gerds, Mary Fox-Geiman, Kevin Dawravoo, Tulio Rodriguez, Amir Toor MD, Scott Smith, Karen Kiley, Donna Fletcher-Gonzalez, Chindo Hicks, and Patrick Stiff (Article)
Primary Merkel cell carcinoma of the parotid gland., Mahmoud Ghaderi, Jeffrey Coury, Jacqueline Oxenberg DO, and Harvey Spector (Article)
Cancer: The Lived Experience of Patients and Families, Lorraine Gyauch MA, RN,CT, CGS (Presentation)
Incorporating Rehabilitation Services into Oncology Site-specific Clinical Practice Guidelines, Kathleen Leies RN, OCN; Kathy Sevedge RN, MA, AOCN; Dorothy Morrone RNC, MS, OCN; Stephanie Marshall CCER; and Jennifer Roeder MSPT, MBA (Poster)
Steroid hormones drive cancer development, S V. Madhunapantula, Paul Mosca, and G P. Robertson (Article)
Diet Index-Based and Empirically Derived Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Colorectal Cancer Risk, Paige Miller; Philip Lazarus; Samuel Lesko; Joshua Muscat; Gregory R. Harper MD, PhD; Amanda Gross; Rashmi Sinha; Karen Ryczak; Gladys Escobar; David Mauger; and Terryl Hartman (Article)
Immunologic Therapy with Cadi-05 for the Treatment of Advanced Melanoma, Paul J. Mosca MD, PhD; Suresh G. Nair MD; Susan K. Ayre RN, MA; Wenjing Shi RN, MS; Sherrine Eid MPH; Shantu Amin PhD; Dhimant Desai PhD; Joseph J. Drabick MD, FACP; Bakulesh M. Khamar MD; Arati Sharma PhD; Svetomir N. Markovic MD; and Gavin P. Robertson PhD (Poster)
Adjuvant mFOLFOX6 plus or minus cetuximab (Cmab) in patients (pts) with KRAS mutant (m) resected stage III colon cancer (CC): NCCTG Intergroup Phase III Trial N0147, Suresh G. Nair MD; Richard M. Goldberg; Daniel J. Sargent; Stephen N. Thibodeau; Margaret R. Mahoney; Anthony F. Sheilds; Emily Chan; Sharlene Gill; Morton S. Kahlenberg; and Steven R. Alberts MD, MPH (Presentation)
RB gene family: genome-wide ChIP approaches could open undiscovered roads., Flavio Rizzolio, Luca Esposito, Debora Muresu, Roberto S Fratamico MD, Ranna Jaraha, Gianluca Vosa Caprioli, and Antonio Giordano (Article)
Identification of Issues Faced by Cancer Survivors, Kathy Sevedge RN, MA, AOCN (Poster)
Patient Navigation: Past, Present and Future, Kathy Sevedge RN, MA, AOCN (Presentation)
2009
Training Tomorrow’s Providers and Expanding Access to Peginterferon/Ribavirin Combination Therapyfor Chronic Hepatatis C in Underinsured/Uninsured Patients: Final Outcomes of a Pilot, Resident-Initiated, Multidisciplinary, Hepatitis C Clinic, Nicole M. Agostino DO; Suzanne J. Templer DO; Edward Norris MD, FAPM; Charles M. Brooks MD; Eric J. Gertner MD, MPH; and Joseph L. Yozviak DO, FACP (Poster)
Hypoxia influences CD40-CD40L mediated inflammation in endothelial and monocytic cells., Subrata Chakrabarti, Muhammad A. Rizvi MD, Didi Pathak, Michael T Kirber, and Jane E Freedman (Article)
Rearrangements of the MLL gene are influenced by DNA secondary structure, potentially mediated by topoisomerase II binding., Hongan Le, Sheetal Singh, Shyh-Jen Shih, Nga Du, Sabine Schnyder, Grace A Loredo, Christine Bien, Laura Michaelis, Amir Toor MD, Manuel O Diaz, and Andrew T Vaughan (Article)
Acute Splenic Infarct in Beta-Thalassemia Minor: A Novel Combination of Heterozygous Beta-Globin Mutations With Latent Phenotypes and the Clinical Implications, Danny C. Liaw, Adam J. Kotkiewicz, and Mark A. Kender (Article)
Activator protein-1 has an essential role in pancreatic cancer cells and is regulated by a novel Akt-mediated mechanism., Sonyo Shin, Takayuki Asano, Yixin Yao, Ronghua Zhang, Francois-Xavier Claret, Murray Korc, Kanaga Sabapathy, David G Menter, James L Abbruzzese, and Shrikanth A G Reddy (Article)
Dose intense therapy for relapsed lymphoproliferative disorders: the more things change, the more they are the same., Amir Toor MD (Article)
Impaired NHEJ function in multiple myeloma., Clara Yang, Christopher Betti, Sheetal Singh, Amir Toor MD, and Andrew Vaughan (Article)
2008
Psychiatric Outcomes in a Resident-Run Multidisciplinary Hepatitis C Clinic, Nicole M. Agostino DO; Edward Norris MD, FAPM; Joseph L. Yozviak DO, FACP; Charles M. Brooks MD; Eric J. Gertner MD, MPH; and Michael Kaufmann MD (Poster)
Bevacizumab and irinotecan therapy in glioblastoma multiforme: a series of 13 cases., Sheikh Asim Ali MD, Wassim M McHayleh, Asif Ahmad, Rajesh Sehgal, Molly Braffet, Mohsin Rahman, Ghassan Bejjani, and David M Friedland (Article)
Marginal-zone B-cell lymphoma of the bony palate presenting as sinusitis., Lisa Skultety Ayers, Jacqueline Oxenberg DO, Seth Zwillenberg, and Mahmoud Ghaderi (Article)
Phase I/II trial of erlotinib and temozolomide with radiation therapy in the treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme: North Central Cancer Treatment Group Study N0177., Paul D Brown, Sunil Krishnan, Jann N Sarkaria, Wenting Wu, Kurt A Jaeckle, Joon H Uhm, Francois J Geoffroy, Robert Arusell, Gaspar Kitange, Robert B Jenkins, John W Kugler, Roscoe F Morton, Kendrith M Rowland, Paul Mischel, William H Yong, Bernd W Scheithauer, David Schiff, Caterina Giannini, Jan C Buckner, and Suresh G. Nair MD (Article)
Can Surgeons Improve Survival in Stage IV Melanoma?, Paul J. Mosca MD, PhD; Erik J. Teicher MD; Suresh G. Nair MD; and Barbara A. Pockaj (Article)
Targeting Intracellular Signaling Pathways in Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS)., Suresh G. Nair MD, Abhishek Sharma, and Amin S. Robertson (Poster)
CD40-CD40 ligand interactions in oxidative stress, inflammation and vascular disease., Muhammad A. Rizvi MD, Didi Pathak, Jane E Freedman, and Subrata Chakrabarti (Article)
Feasibility of conditioning with thymoglobulin and reduced intensity TBI to reduce acute GVHD in recipients of allogeneic SCT., Amir Toor MD, T Rodriguez, M Bauml, H Mathews, S Shanti, D Senitzer, A Kini, J Norton, M Parthasarathy, N Mohideen, C Petrowsky, B Bonilla, S Smith, and P Stiff (Article)
2007
Current Immunotherapeutic Strategies in Malignant Melanoma., Nicole Agostino DO; Arjumand Ali MD; Suresh G. Nair MD; and Paul J. Mosca MD, PhD (Article)
Outcomes of Peginterferon alfa-2a and Ribavirin Combination Therapy in a Resident-Initiated, Multidisciplinary, Hepatitis C Clinic, Nicole M. Agostino DO; Erini Vasiliadis DO; K Nadeem Ahmed MD; Suzanne J. Templer DO; Edward R. Norris MD, FAPA, FAPM; Charles M. Brooks MD; Eric J. Gertner MD, MPH; and Joseph L. Yozviak DO, FACP (Poster)
Tandem autologous stem cell transplantation for patients with primary refractory or poor risk recurrent Hodgkin lymphoma., Henry C Fung, Patrick Stiff, Jeff Schriber, Amir Toor MD, Eileen Smith, Tulio Rodriguez, Amrita Krishnan, Arturo Molina, David Smith, Barbara Ivers, Neil Kogut, Leslie Popplewell, Roberto Rodriguez, George Somlo, Stephen J Forman, and Auayporn Nademanee (Article)
Posaconazole salvage therapy allows successful allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with refractory invasive mold infections., K Mullane, Amir Toor MD, C Kalnicky, T Rodriguez, J Klein, and P Stiff (Article)
Alefacept in corticosteroid refractory graft versus host disease: early results indicate promising activity., Amir Toor MD, Patrick J Stiff, Brian J Nickoloff, Tulio Rodriguez, Jared L Klein, and Kenneth B Gordon (Article)
Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma in a patient with long-term remission with standard chemotherapy., Haowei Zhang, Ranju Gupta MD, Jen C Wang, Jeffrey F Lipton, and Yi-Wu Huang (Article)
247: Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Patients Referred to a Hematologist for Anemia: An Epidemic Problem, Brian Zimmer; Dana Wentzel; James Reed; Eliot L. Friedman MD; Basil Ahmed MD; and Nelson Kopyt DO, FASN, FACP (Article)
2006
Psychiatric Outcomes in a Resident-run, Multidisciplinary, Hepatitis C Clinic (Poster), Nicole M. Agostino DO; Edward Norris MD, FAPM; Joseph L. Yozviak DO, FACP; Suzanne J. Templer DO; Charles M. Brooks MD; Eric J. Gertner MD, MPH; and Michael Kaufmann MD (Poster)
Analysis of expression of heat shock protein-90 (HSP90) and the effects of HSP90 inhibitor (17-AAG) in multiple myeloma., J Duus, H I Bahar, G Venkataraman, F Ozpuyan, K F Izban, H Al-Masri, T Maududi, Amir Toor MD, and S Alkan (Article)
Incidence of pulmonary hypertension in patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders., Ranju Gupta, Sirisha Perumandla, Yelena Patsiornik, Selvanayagam Niranjan, and Anju Ohri (Article)
A Phase II NCCTG Study of Irinotecan and Docetaxel in Previously Treated Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer., Julian R. Molina, Daniel Nikcevich, Shauna L. Hillman, Susan Geyer, Timothy Drevyanko, James Jett, Joseph Verdirame, Henry Tazelaar, Kendrith M. Rowland, Edward Wos, Leila Kutteh, Suresh G. Nair MD, Tom R. Fitch, Patrick Flynn, Philip J. Stella MD, and Alex A. Adjei (Article)
Histopathologic characteristics, recurrence patterns, and survival of 129 patients with desmoplastic melanoma., Katherine E. Posther, M Angelica Selim, Paul J. Mosca, Wilma E. Stanley, Jeffrey L. Johnson, Douglas S. Tyler MD, and Hilliard F. Seigler MD (Article)
Cultural Compentency and Cancer, Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH (Presentation)
The administration of polymerized human hemoglobin (Pyridoxylated) to a Jehovah's Witness after submyeloablative stem cell transplantation complicated by delayed graft failure., Scott E Smith, Amir Toor MD, Tulio Rodriguez, and Patrick Stiff (Article)
Patients' understanding of disease status and treatment plan at initial hematopoietic stem cell transplantation consultation., P J Stiff, L A Miller, P Mumby, K Kiley, R Batiste, N Porter, K Potocki, M Volle, S Lichtenstein, S Wojtowicz, S Zakrzewski, Amir Toor MD, and T Rodriguez (Article)
Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplants that utilize total body irradiation can safely be carried out entirely on an outpatient basis., P Stiff, P Mumby, L Miler, T Rodriguez, M Parthswarthy, K Kiley, N Porter, R Batiste, S Wojtowitz, S Lichtenstein, M Fox-Geiman, and Amir Toor MD (Article)
Cardiac nonamyloidotic immunoglobulin deposition disease., Amir Toor MD, Ben A Ramdane, Jacob Joseph, Maria Thomas, Carl O'Hara, Bart Barlogie, Patrick Walker, and Lija Joseph (Article)
Expanding Access to Care through a Resident-Initiated Hepatitis C Clinic - An Innovative Method for Incorporating ACGME Core Competencies into the Management of Medically Underserved Patients, Joseph L. Yozviak DO, FACP; Suzanne J. Templer DO; Erini Vasiliadis DO; Vishal Patel MD; Nicole M. Agostino DO; K Nadeem Ahmed MD; Edward Norris MD, FAPM; Charles M. Brooks MD; and Eric J. Gertner MD, MPH (Poster)
2005
Oxaliplatin, Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin for Patients with Unresectable Liver-Only Metastases from Colorectal Cancer: A North Central Cancer Treatment Group Phase II Study., Steven R. Alberts MD, MPH; William L. Horvath; William C. Sternfeld; Richard M. Goldberg; Michelle R. Mahoney; Shaker R. Dakhil MD; Ralph Levitt MD; Kendrith M. Rowland; Suresh G. Nair MD; Daniel J. Sargent; and John H. Donohue (Article)
Predictors of outcome after hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion: role of tumor response., Thomas A. Aloia MD; Elizabeth Grubbs MD; Mark Onaitis MD; Paul J. Mosca MD, PhD; Tsung-Yen Cheng MD; Hilliard F. Seigler MD; and Douglas S. Tyler MD (Article)
Insulin receptor substrate is a mediator of phosphoinositide 3-kinase activation in quiescent pancreatic cancer cells., Takayuki Asano, Yixin Yao, Sonyo Shin, James McCubrey, James L Abbruzzese, and Shrikanth A G Reddy (Article)
Perceived Quality of Life Among Smokers in Smoking Cessation Therapy., I Croghan, Jeff A. Sloan, R D. Hurt, G A. Croghan, Shaker R. Dakhil MD, Paul J. Novotny, D Schroeder, Edward J. Wos, Kendrith M. Rowland, and Suresh G. Nair MD (Article)
Second allografts for relapsed hematologic malignancies: feasibility of using a different donor., J E Duus, P J Stiff, J Choi, M Parthasarathy, T Rodriguez, and Amir Toor MD (Article)
Measuring Physician Productivity, Eliot L. Friedman MD and Teri Guidi (Article)
Tuberculosis of sacroiliac joint: an unusual presentation., Ranju Gupta MD, Harry Bienenstock, Placido Morano, and Anil Gupta (Article)
Should Elderly Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients be Offered ElderlySpecific Trials? Results of a Pooled Analysis from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group., Aminah Jatoi, Shauna L. Hillman, Philip J. Stella MD, Erin Green, Alex A. Adjei, Suresh G. Nair MD, Edith A. Perez MD, Bipinkur Amin, Steven E. Schild, Rene Castillo, and James R. Jett (Article)
Hepatocellular carcinoma in an African American man with a noncirrhotic liver presented initially as an occipital mass., Maged Khalil MD, Padjama Sai, Zili He, Ashraf Aziz, William Steier, Shetra Sivamurthy, Ming Liu, and Madhumati Kalavar (Article)
Epithelioid Angiosarcoma of the Small Intestine After Occupational Exposure to Radiation and Polyvinyl Chloride: A case Report and Review of Literature., Maged Khalil MD, Asha Thomas, Adel Aassad, Moshe Rubin, and Robert N Taub (Article)
Detection and partial characterization of a broad-range bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus plantarum (ATCC 8014), Bradley Lash (Article)
Randomized Phase II Trial of Three Schedules of Pemetrexed and Gemcitabine as Front-Line Therapy for Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer., Cynthia X Ma, Suresh G. Nair MD, Sachdev Thomas, Sumithra J. Mandrekar, Daniel A. Nikcevich, Kendrith M. Rowland, Tom R. Fitch MD, Harold E. Windschitl, Shauna L. Hillman, Steven E. Schild, James R. Jett, Coleman Obasaju, and Alex A. Adjei (Article)
Factors that Influence Colorectal Cancer Screening Practice in the Latino Community, Ana Natale-Pereira MD, MPH; Marielos Vega RN, BSN; Jonnie Marks PhD; Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH; and M S. Johnson (Presentation)
Perspectives on Cancer Screening Among Internal Medicine Residents and Latino Community Members: A Work in Progress, Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH; Dawne M. Mouzon MPH; Ana Natale-Pereira MD, MPH; Vincent J. Barba; John Kolassa; Jonnie Marks PhD; and Maria L. Soto-Greene MD (Presentation)
2004
Gemcitabine and ISIS-2503 for Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A North Central Cancer Treatment Group Phase II Trial., Steven R. Alberts MD, MPH; Mark Schroeder; Charles Erlichman; Preston D. Steen MD; Nathan R. Foster; Dennis F. Moore; Kendrith M. Rowland; Suresh G. Nair MD; Loren K. Tschetter; and Tom R. Fitch MD (Article)
Overexpression of the NOTCH ligand JAG2 in malignant plasma cells from multiple myeloma patients and cell lines., Christiane Houde, Yulin Li, Lynda Song, Kevin Barton, Qing Zhang, John Godwin, Sucha Nand, Amir Toor MD, Serhan Alkan, N Veronique Smadja, Hervé Avet-Loiseau, Carmen S Lima, Lucio Miele, and Lionel J Coignet (Article)
Investigating Four 'Myths' Surrounding Dysphagia in Patients with Metastatic Esophageal Cancer. A Multi-Institutional Study from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group., Aminah Jatoi, Nathan R. Foster, P Johnson, George G. Klee, J F Quevedo, Roscoe F. Morton MD, Suresh G. Nair MD, Carl G. Kardinal MD, and James A. Mailliard MD (Article)
An Eicosapentaenoic Acid Supplement Versus Megestrol Acetate Versus Both for Patients with Cancer-Associated Wasting: A North Central Cancer Treatment Group and National Cancer Institute of Canada Collaborative Effort., Aminah Jatoi, Kendrith M. Rowland, Charles L. Loprinzi, Jeff A. Sloan, Shaker R. Dakhil MD, Neil MacDonald, Bruno Gagnon, Paul J. Novotny, James A. Mailliard MD, Teresita I L Bushey, Suresh G. Nair MD, and Brad Christensen (Article)
Oral Vinorelbine for the Treatment of Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Elderly Patients: A Phase II Trial of Efficacy and Toxicity., Anne Kanard, Aminah Jatoi, Rene Castillo, Susan Geyer, Thomas K. Schulz, Tom R. Fitch MD, Kendrith M. Rowland, Suresh G. Nair MD, James E. Krook MD, and John W. Kugler MD (Article)
Molecular interactions leading to lipoprotein retention and the initiation of atherosclerosis., Maged Khalil MD, William D Wagner, and Ira J Goldberg (Article)
Phase II Evaluation of 96-Hour Paclitaxel Infusion in Advanced (Recurrent or Metastatic) Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck (E3395): a Trial of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group., Corey J. Langer, Yi Li, Timothy Jennings, Ronald C. DeConti, Suresh G. Nair MD, Roger B. Cohen, and Arlene A. Forastiere (Article)
Post-transplant air-leak syndrome., Tawee Tanvetyanon, Amir Toor MD, and Patrick J Stiff (Article)
Favourable results with a single autologous stem cell transplant following conditioning with busulphan and cyclophosphamide in patients with multiple myeloma., Amir Toor MD, John Ayers, Joan Strupeck, Mala Parthasarathy, Steve Creech, Tulio Rodriguez, and Patrick J Stiff (Article)
2003
BEAM allogeneic transplantation for patients with Hodgkin's disease who relapse after autologous transplantation is safe and effective., Julian P Cooney, Patrick J Stiff, Amir Toor MD, and Mala Parthasarathy (Article)
Infection--an underappreciated cause of bone pain in multiple myeloma., Raman Desikan, Bart Barlogie, Rajesh Sethi, Amir Toor MD, Dan Spoon, Edward Angtuaco, Rudy Vanhemert, Anantha VijayaGopal, Seema Singhal, Jayesh Mehta, Sundar Jagannath, Nikhil Munshi, Maurizio Zangari, Athanassios Fassas, Guido Tricot, and Elias Anaissie (Article)