Publications

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  1. Pottow JWJ, Gharzai LA, Santos PMG, Heisler M  Addressing Food Insecurity for People With Cancer: We Can No Longer Wait.  JAMA Oncol  2026 Apr 16;. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2026.0263
  2. Lee C, Mille MM, Griffin KT, Rigsby C, Popescu A, Gopalakrishnan M, Leisenring W, Peterson S, Dome JS, Laurie F  et al.  Estimation of detailed cardiac doses for pediatric radiotherapy patients in National Wilms Tumor Study.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys  2026 Apr 15;. pii:S0360-3016(26)00570-5
  3. Singh R, Koempel A, French B, Crawford C, Perlow HK, Rauh S, Kutuk T, Beyer S, Grecula J, Blakaj D  et al.  Improved progression-free survival following dose-escalated vs. standard dose post-operative radiation therapy for high-risk meningiomas: An International Multicenter Individual Patient Level Meta-Analysis (FIRESTORM).  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys  2026 Apr 07;. pii:S0360-3016(26)00519-5
  4. Liu Y, John J, Sarkar S, Zakkar A, Kinkopf P, Teo PT, Abazeed ME  Toward Automating the Summarization of Cancer Pathology Reports Using Large Language Models to Improve Clinical Usability.  JCO Clin Cancer Inform  2026 Apr;10(2):e2500284. pii:e2500284
  5. Lozko Y, Beznosenko A, Suchowerska N, Iakovenko V, Zelinskyi R, Shepil Z, Brovchuk S, Kowalchuk R, Ford E, Li B  et al.  Advancing radiation oncology care in Ukraine during the war: impact of international observerships on professional development and clinical practice.  Front Oncol  2026;16:1752691. pii:1752691
  6. Das IJ, Weisman M, Bates JE, Choi JI, Mohindra P, Chowdhary M, Su Z, Salama J, Shumway J, Reshko L  et al.  In Reply to Jordan.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys  2026 Mar 15;124(4):1150-1151. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.12.035
  7. Peng L, Perronne L, Gennaro N, Rashidi AP, Kobus Z, Seo M, Borhani AA, Kelahan L, Subedi K, Savas H  et al.  Performance of deep learning-based segmentation of soft tissue sarcoma by MRI sequence, tumor type and location.  Skeletal Radiol  2026 Mar 04;. doi:10.1007/s00256-026-05178-3
  8. Pogue BW, Harms J, Das IJ  Real-time Cherenkov imaging will make radiation therapy safer.  Med Phys  2026 Mar;53(3):e70371. doi:10.1002/mp.70371
  9. Das IJ, Weisman M, Bates JE, Choi JI, Mohindra P, Chowdhary M, Su Z, Salama J, Shumway J, Reshko L  et al.  The Medical Physicist Workforce Shortage:Putting the Cart in Front of the Horse.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys  2026 Mar 01;124(3):581-584. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.09.041
  10. Tripathi S, Najem H, Hurley L, Du R, Dmello C, Ali H, McCortney K, Habashy KJ, Zhang P, Horbinski CM  et al.  STING-induced blood-brain barrier opening combined with radiotherapy potentiates antitumor response in a high-grade glioma model.  J Clin Invest  2026 Feb 16;136(4). pii:e198843
  11. Cahn BA, Zhang R, Sidwell AM, Adam CM, Tiv J, Murrar R, Koh J, Griffin T, Nadir U, Yi MD  et al.  Clinical practice guidelines for the management of basal cell carcinoma in Gorlin syndrome.  J Am Acad Dermatol  2026 Feb;94(2):485-494. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2025.10.076
  12. Gharzai LA, Morris E, Schipper MJ, Kidwell KM, Nguyen-Tân PF, Rosenthal DI, Gillison ML, Jordan RC, Garden AS, Koyfman SA  et al.  Treatment Interruption and Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer: A Secondary Analysis of 3 Randomized Clinical Trials.  JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg  2026 Feb 01;152(2):144-153. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2025.4203
  13. Omuro A, DeAngelis LM, Polley MC, Correa D, Wefel JS, Bovi JA, Rosenblum M, Corn BW, Aneja S, Grommes C  et al.  Multicenter randomized phase II study of R-MPV-A chemoimmunotherapy with or without low-dose whole-brain radiotherapy for newly-diagnosed primary CNS lymphoma.  Neuro Oncol  2026 Feb 01;28(2):371-382. doi:10.1093/neuonc/noaf221
  14. Popović J, Hahut A, Torres GE, Vincent A, Soto-Echevarria N, Wray B, Bartom ET, Paunesku T, Goodman CR, Woloschak GE  Changes in EGFR activity following CRISPR/Cas9-editing of the EGF binding domain.  Sci Rep  2026 Jan 31;16(1):6797. pii:6797
  15. LaBella D, Schumacher K, Mix M, Leu K, McBurney-Lin S, Nedelec P, Villanueva-Meyer J, Raleigh DR, Shapey J, Vercauteren T  et al.  The 2024 Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge Meningioma Radiotherapy (BraTS-MEN-RT) dataset.  Sci Data  2026 Jan 27;13(1). pii:306
  16. Petersen J, Gupta SV, Apple AC, Cobia D, Dokucu ME, Donnelly ED, Gradishar WJ, Mihailovic M, Reilly JL, Voss JL  et al.  Functional dysconnectivity in breast cancer patients undergoing hormone therapy.  J Clin Exp Neuropsychol  2026 Jan 21;:1-23. doi:10.1080/13803395.2026.2617353
  17. Das IJ, Ding M, Abazeed ME  Dosimetric Challenges of Small Lung Lesions in Low-Density Tissue Treated with Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.  J Clin Med  2026 Jan 12;15(2). pii:603
  18. Koneru BN, Barron DA, Muecke R, Shaffer R, Thomas TO, Sonnhoff M, Blach RM, Steike DR, Deloch L, Singh PK  et al.  Periarticular Soft Tissue Disorders: Enthesopathies, Tendinopathies, and Bursitis-Pathophysiology and Radiotherapeutic Approaches.  Semin Radiat Oncol  2026 Jan;36:48-60. doi:10.1016/j.semradonc.2025.10.002
  19. Andersen AD, Das IJ, DesRosiers C  Impact of dose prescription variation on local control for SBRT patients treated at a single academic institution.  Med Dosim  ;51(1):146-150. doi:10.1016/j.meddos.2025.10.001
  20. Ho A, Sachdev S  Re: Markus Graefen, Fabian Falkenbach, Tobias Maurer, et al. Best Systemic Therapy With or Without Radical Prostatectomy in the Management of Men With Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: The RAMPP Randomised Controlled Trial. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2025.09.4144.  Eur Urol  2025 Dec 08;. pii:S0302-2838(25)04843-2
  21. Ahmed MM, Abazeed ME, Das IJ  Grid/Lattice radiotherapy: Innovation with evidence or innovation ahead of evidence?  Med Phys  2025 Dec;52(12):e70184. doi:10.1002/mp.70184
  22. Ho A, Horbinski C, Sachdev S  Thromboembolism in gliomas: an under-recognized danger.  J Neurooncol  2025 Dec;175(3):1465-1466. doi:10.1007/s11060-025-05204-9
  23. Carpio Gonzalez D, Glasco AD, Woloschak GE, Dewji SA  Reconstructing strontium-90 intake in beagles using neural networks: a data-driven assessment of historical inhalation records.  J Radiol Prot  2025 Nov 06;45(4). pii:041512
  24. Yang HC, Chang A, Visa M, Yoon A, Abbott A, Ma Y, Abazeed ME, Hart EM, Allen BD, Pandolfino JE  et al.  Age-Based Screening for Lung Cancer Surveillance in the US.  JAMA Netw Open  2025 Nov 03;8(11):e2546222. pii:e2546222
  25. Matković J, Trajković J, Nenadović A, Woloschak GE, Paunesku T, Ilić AŽ  Computational image analysis of kidney tissue samples of beagle dogs irradiated with 60Co gamma-rays.  Appl Radiat Isot  2025 Nov;225:111952. doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2025.111952
  26. Pasetsky JL, Heron DE, Wallner PE, Gracie JR, Jahraus CD, Thomas TO  Current Practices in, Reimbursement Opinions About, and Clinical Indications of Adaptive Radiation Therapy: Results From the American College of Radiation Oncology Survey.  Cureus  2025 Oct;17(10):e93927. pii:e93927
  27. Sher DJ, Rosu-Bubulac M, Das IJ  Cone beam CT will replace CT-simulation in near future for radiotherapy planning.  Med Phys  2025 Oct;52(10):e70044. doi:10.1002/mp.70044
  28. Wainwright D, Lukas R, Zhai L, Lauing K, Kim M, Koch T, Penco-Campillo M, Bommi P, Dixit K, Kumthekar P  et al.  Newly diagnosed glioblastoma IDHwt patients treated with radiation, nivolumab, and BMS-986205.  Res Sq  2025 Sep 25;. pii:rs.3.rs-7567487
  29. Pour-Rashidi A, Zandpazandi S, Perronne L, Hill VB, Krumpelman C, Subedi K, Kelahan L, Borhani AA, Savas H, Avery R  et al.  Intracranial Metastases from Uterine Leiomyosarcoma: A Systematic Review and Case Illustration.  J Clin Med  2025 Sep 20;14(18). pii:6631
  30. Kim YS, Nabet BY, Cortez BN, Sun NY, Sebastian R, Redon CE, Ray A, Liu L, Ishola AA, Loew S  et al.  NOTCH1 reverses immune suppression in small cell lung cancer through reactivation of STING.  J Clin Invest  2025 Sep 16;135(18). pii:e185423
  31. Yang Y, Wadhwani N, Aoi Y, Govind S, Sachdev S, Shilatifard A, Brat D, Stupp R, DeCuypere M  Pediatric H3 K27-altered diffuse midline gliomas may consist of two clinically relevant subsets based on patient age and molecular genetic profile.  Neurooncol Adv  2025;7(1):vdaf200. pii:vdaf200
  32. Zheng S, Liu Y, Troy Teo P, Wu Y, Zhang J, Abazeed ME, Hayes JP  A deep learning model for preoperative risk stratification of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma based on genomic predictors of liver metastasis.  Eur J Cancer  2025 Aug 26;226:115608. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2025.115608
  33. Karyadi DM, Bogdanova TI, Milder CM, Hartley SW, Lee OW, Dean M, Drozdovitch V, Cahoon EK, Masiuk S, Chepurny M  et al.  Distinctive molecular features of radiation-induced thyroid cancers.  Sci Adv  2025 Aug 22;11(34):eadw7680. pii:eadw7680
  34. Mady LJ, Baddour K, Owoc MS, Kudrick LD, Gentsch AT, Ebbott D, Skalla B, Amache M, Najjar W, Gupta S  et al.  Longitudinal Financial Toxicity and Quality of Life in Head and Neck Cancer.  JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg  2025 Aug 01;151(8):750-760. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2025.1313
  35. Gordon AO, Rashidi A, Harris JP, Gharzai LA, Sadigh G  Prevalence of Health-Related Social Needs and Associated Missed Imaging Appointments Among Patients With Cancer.  J Am Coll Radiol  2025 Aug;22(8):861-868. doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2025.04.002
  36. Gharzai LA, Mady LJ, Armache M, Sun Z, Jagsi R, Cella D, Peipert JD, Sadigh G, Hass RW  Validation of a Single Item Measure for Financial Toxicity Screening in Patients With Breast Cancer.  JCO Oncol Pract  2025 Aug;21(8):1134-1141. doi:10.1200/OP-24-00753
  37. Kehwar TS, Das IJ  Dosimetric and Radiobiological Evaluation of Inhomogeneity-Corrected Dose Distribution in Prophylactic Radiotherapy for Heterotopic Ossification.  J Clin Med  2025 Jul 26;14(15). pii:5291
  38. Das IJ, Shumway J, Goodman CR, Chowdhary M, Sim AJ, Bates JE, Mohindra P, Su Z, Choi JI, Salama J  et al.  Adaptive Radiation Therapy: Workforce Implications.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys  2025 Jul 15;122(4):881-883. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.03.013
  39. Das IJ, Khan AU, Yadav P  Small-field output factor dependence on the field size definition in MR-Linac.  Med Phys  2025 Jul;52(7):e17857. doi:10.1002/mp.17857
  40. Gharzai LA, Bromfield J, Kwan M, Larson A, Kingsbury JA, Akthar A, Agarwal G, Vermylen JH, Becker S, Scott K  et al.  Implementation Mapping to Identify Strategies to Increase Timely Postoperative Radiotherapy Initiation for Head/Neck Cancer.  Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg  2025 Jul;173(1):288-298. doi:10.1002/ohn.1268
  41. Armache M, Stemme R, Najjar W, Samaha NL, Hearn M, Lazieh S, Joseph E, Frazier K, Ball D, Russell JO  et al.  Financial Toxicity Across the Thyroid Cancer Care Continuum: A Systematic Review.  Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg  2025 Jul;173(1):1-16. doi:10.1002/ohn.1241
  42. Sarkar S, Teo PT, Abazeed ME  Deep learning for automated, motion-resolved tumor segmentation in radiotherapy.  NPJ Precis Oncol  2025 Jun 30;9(1):173. pii:173
  43. Park AC, Puchi C, Austell P, Lorch JH, Alexiev BA, Gharzai LA, Stepan KO  Primary cutaneous neuroendocrine tumour of the scalp with metastasis.  BMJ Case Rep  2025 Jun 27;18(6). pii:e263869
  44. Larson A, Ma Y, Sun Z, Kingsbury J, Stepan KO, Akthar A, Lorch J, Mittal BB, Yadav P, Mierzwa ML  et al.  Correction to: Survivorship therapy needs after radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: surveying opportunities for growth (STRONG).  Support Care Cancer  2025 Jun 12;33(7):569. pii:569
  45. Naoum GE, Strauss JB  In Reply to Dutta and Gelover.  Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys  2025 Jun 01;122(2):521-523. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.02.047
  46. Seco J, Deasy JO, Das IJ  FLASH radiotherapy: Paradigm shift or a passing fad?  Med Phys  2025 Jun;52(6):3504-3508. doi:10.1002/mp.17807
  47. Talwar A, Asthana S, Silva-Nash J, Gharzai LA, Samant S, Patel U, Stepan K  Outcome Predictors of Hardware Complications in Head and Neck Free Flap Reconstruction.  Am J Clin Oncol  2025 Jun 01;48(6):319-324. doi:10.1097/COC.0000000000001180
  48. Alongi F, Zheng D, Das IJ  MR-Linac is a better choice for adaptive therapy compared to cone-beam CT.  Med Phys  2025 May;52(5):2702-2706. doi:10.1002/mp.17706
  49. Larson A, Ma Y, Sun Z, Kingsbury J, Stepan KO, Akthar A, Lorch J, Mittal BB, Yadav P, Mierzwa ML  et al.  Survivorship therapy needs after radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: surveying opportunities for growth (STRONG).  Support Care Cancer  2025 Apr 29;33(5):403. pii:403
  50. Lim SN, Liu Y, Jawahar A, Mittal BB, Thomas TO  Feasibility of celiac axis delineation and treatment on combined magnetic resonance imaging and linear accelerator systems.  Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol  2025 Apr;34:100768. pii:100768