Radiation Oncology in Minnesota

Recent Clinical Publications

Members of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester are leaders in original research. The following list of recent publications is organized by cancer and treatment topics.

Publications Related to Blood, Marrow, and Lymph System Cancers

Song DY, Jones RJ, Welsh JS, Haulk TL, Korman LT, Noga S, Goodman S, Herman M, Mann R, Marcellus D, Vogelsang G, Ambinder RF, Abrams RA. Phase I study of escalating doses of low-dose-rate, locoregional irradiation preceding Cytoxan-TBI for patients with chemotherapy-resistant non-Hodgkin's or Hodgkin's lymphoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2003 Sep 1;57(1):166-71. [Abstract]

Smith RS, Chen G, Hudson MM, Link MP, Kun L, Weinstein H, Billett A, Marcus KJ, Tarbell NJ, Donaldson SS. Prognostic factors for children with Hodgkin's disease treated with combined-modality therapy. J Clin Oncol 2003 May 15; 21(10):2026-33. [Abstract]

Publications Related to Brain Cancer

Laack NN, Brown PD. Cognitive sequelae of brain radiation in adults. Semin Oncol. 2004 Oct; 31(5): 702-713. [Abstract]

Brown PD, Buckner JC, O'Fallon JR, Iturria NL, O'Neil BP, Brown CA, Scheithauer BW, Dinapoli RP, Arusell RM, Curran WJ, Abrams R, Shaw EG; North Central Cancer Treatment Group; Mayo Clinic. Importance of baseline mini-mental state examination as a prognostic fact for patients with low-grade glioma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 May 1;59(1):117-25. [Abstract]

Pollock BE, Link MJ, Foote RL, Stafford SL, Brown PD, Schomberg PJ. Radiosurgery as primary management for meningiomas extending into the internal auditory canal. Stereotact Func Neurosurg. 2004 Apr 1;82(2):98-103. [Abstract]

Pollock BE, Gorman DA, Brown PD. Radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformation of the basal ganglia, thalamus, and brainstem. J Neurosurg. 2004 Feb;100(2):210-4. [Abstract]

Carlson BL, Schroeder MA, Mladek AC, Giannini C, James CD, Sarkaria JN. Radiosensitization by OSI-774 of serially transplantable human GBM xenografts (Abstract MO-01). Neuro-Oncol 2003 Oct; 5(4) 321. [No Abstract Available]

Marshall NE, Ballman KV, Michalack JC, Schomberg PJ, Burton GV, Sandler HM, Cascino TL, Jaeckle KA, Buckner JC. Ototoxicity of cisplatin (CDDP) plus standard radiation therapy (SRT) versus accelerated radiation therapy (ART) in glioblastoma (GBM) patients (Abstract RT-07). Neuro-oncol 2003 Oct; 5(4):344. [No Abstract Available]

Rao RD, James CD, Schroeder MA, Sarkaria JN. Combined effect of the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin and the nitrosourea carmustine (BCNU), on human glioma cell lines. (Abstract ET-37). Neuro-Oncol 2003 Oct; 5(4):306. [No Abstract Available]

Brown PD, Buckner JC, O'Fallon JR, Iturria NL, Brown CA, O'Neill BP, Scheithauer BW, Dinapoli RP, Arusell RM, Curran WJ, Abrams R, Shaw EG. Effects of radiotherapy on cognitive function in patients with low-grade glioma measured by the Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination. J Clin Oncol 2003 Jul 1; 21(13):2519-24. [Abstract]

Bartleson JD, Krecke KN, O'Neill BP, Brown PD. Reversible, strokelike migrain attacks in patient with previous radiation therapy. Neuro-oncol 2003 Apr; 5(2) 121-7. [Abstract]

Stafford SL, Pollock BE, Leavitt JA, Foote RL, Brown PD, Link MJ, Gorman DA, Schomberg PH. A study on the radiation tolerance of the optic nerves and chiasm after stereostatic radiosurgery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003 Apr; 55(5): 1177-81. [Abstract]

Buckner JC, Gesme D, O'Fallon JR, Hammack JE, Stafford S, Brown PD, Hawkins R, Scheithauer BW, Erickson BJ, Levitt R, Shaw EG, Jenkins R. Phase II trial of procarabazine, lomustine, and vincristine as initial therapy for patients with low-grade oligodendroglioma or oligoastrocytoma: Efficacy and associations with chromosomal abnormalities. J Clin Oncol 2003 Jan 15; 21(2): 251-5. [Abstract]

Krishnan S, Rao RD, James CD, Sarkaria JN. Combination of epidermal growth factor receptor targeted therapy with radiation therapy for malignant gliomas. Front Biosci 2003 Jan; 8:E1-E13. [Abstract]

Pollock BE, Brown PD, Foote RL, Stafford SL, Schomberg PJ. Properly selected patients with multiple brain metastases may benefit from aggressive treatment of their intracranial disease. J Neuro-oncol 2003 Jan; 61(1):73-80. [Abstract]

Krishnan S, Rao RD, James CD, Sarkaria JN. The rationale for combining epidermal growth factor receptor targeted therapy with radiation therapy in malignant gliomas. Frontiers in Bioscience 2003; 8:E1-E13. [No Abstract Available]

Sarkaria JN, Carlson BL, Schroeder M, Giannini C, Ballman K, James D. (2003) Evaluation of the radiosensitizing effects of OSI-774 or RAD001 in serially transplantable orthotopic GBM xenograft lines. 2003 AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. Clinical Cancer Research 9: 6211; abstract C31. [No Abstract Available]

Krishnan S, Foote RL, Pollack BE, Gorman DA, Stafford SL, Schomberg PJ, Link ML, Kline RW, Brown PD. Radiosurgery for skull base chordomas and chondrosarcomas. Neurosurgery. [No Abstract Available]

Publications Related to Head and Neck Cancer

Pogodzinski MS, Garces YI, Kruse J, Thompson DM, Cheville J, Kasperbauer JL. Brachytherapy as adjuvant therapy in subglottic stenosis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2004 Aug; 131(2 special issue):128. [No Abstract Available]

Garces YI, Schroeder DR, Nirelli LM, Croghan GA, Croghan IT, Foote RL, Hurt RD. Tobacco use outcomes among patients with head and neck carcinoma treated for nicotine dependence – A matched pair analysis. Cancer 2004 Jul 1; 101(1):116-24. [Abstract]

Foote RL, Kasperbauer JL, Okuno SH, Nichols DA, Olsen KD, Schreiner SA, Brown PD, Carces YI, Cha SS, Strome SE. A pilot of high dose intra-arterial cisplatin chemotherapy with concomitant accelerated radiotherapy for patients with previously untreated T4 and selected T3, N0-3, M0 squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract. Submitted to J of Clin Oncol 2004. [No Abstract Available]

Garces YI, Offord KP, Croghan IT, Decker PA, Brown PD, Clark MM, Rummans TA, Foote RL, Hurt RD. Tobacco use among radiation oncology outpatients. (Abstract 1027). Proceedings of ASCO 2004; 23:103. [No Abstract Available]

Krishnan S, Foote RL. Radiation treatment for endocrine tumors. Endocrine pathology: differential diagnosis and molecular advances. Lloyd RV, editor. Totowa: Humana Press; 2004: 399-407. [No Abstract Available]

Loprinzi CL, Gastineau DA, Foote RL. Oral complications. Clinical oncology. Abeloff MD, et al, editors. 3rd Edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2004; 775-92. [No Abstract Available]

Munson ND, Foote RL, Northcutt RC, Tiegs RD, Fitzpatrick LA, Grant CS, van Heerden JA, Thompson GB, Lloyd RV. Parathyroid carcinoma:Is there a role for adjuvant radiation therapy? Cancer 2003 Dec 1; 98(11):2378-84. [Abstract]

Foote RL, Brown PD, Garces YI, McIver B, Kasperbauer JL. Is there a role for radiation therapy in the management of Hurthle cell carcinoma? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003 Jul 15; 56(4):1067-72. [Abstract]

Graner DE, Foote RL, Kasperbauer JL, Stoeckel RE, Okuno SH, Olsen KD, Sabri AN, Maragos NE, Cha SS, Sargent DJ, Strome SE. Swallow function inpatients before and after intra-arterial chemoradiation. Laryngoscope 2003 Mar; 113(3):573-9. [Abstract]

Pinheiro AD, Foote RL, McCaffrey TV, Kasperbauer JL, Bonner JA, Olsen KD, Cha SS, Sargent DJ, Intraoperative radiotherapy for head and neck and skull base cancer. Head & Neck 2003 Mar; 25(3):217-25. [Abstract]

Foote RL, Kasperbauer JL, Okuno SH, Nichols DA, Brown RD, Cardes YI, Sargent DJ, Strome SE. High dose intra-arterial cisplatin with concomitant accelerated radiotherapy for patients with T4, selected T3, N0-3, M0 head and neck cancer (Abstract 5528). Proceedings of ASCO 2004; 23:493. [No Abstract Available]

Publications Related to Gastrointestinal Cancer

Heimbach JK, Gores GJ, Nyberg SL, Ishitani MB, Alberts SR, Haddock MG, Rosen CB. Impact of the use of marginal, high-risk, or living donors on patients receiving liver transplantation for hilar cholangiocarcinoma (Abstract 1312). Am J Transplant 2004; 4(suppl 8):517. [No Abstract Available]

Rosen CB, Heimbach JK, Haddock MG, Alberts SR, Nyberg SL, Ishitani MB, Gores GJ. Liver transplantation with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma (Abstract 1017). Am J Transplant 2004; 4(suppl 8):517. [No Abstract Available]

Gunderson LL, Haddock MG, Schild SE. Rectal Cancer: Preoperative versus postoperative irradiation as a component of adjuvant treatment. Semin Radiat Oncol 2003 Oct; 13(4):419-32. [Abstract]

Hahnloser D, Haddock MG, Neslon H. Intraoperative radiotherapy in the multimodality approach to colorectal cancer. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2003 Oct; 12(4):993-1013, ix. [Abstract]

Lavertu S, Schild SE, Gunderson LL, Haddock MG, Martenson JA. Endocavitary irradiation for rectal carcinoma: 10 year results. Am J Clin Oncol. 2003 Oct; 26(5):508-12. [Abstract]

Haddock MG, Nelson H, Donohue JH, Taylor WE, Devine RM, Nagorney DM, Wolff BG, O'Connell MJ, Gunderson LL. Intraoperative electron radiotherapy as a component of salvage therapy for patients with colorectal cancer and advanced nodal metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003 Jul 15; 56(4):966-73. [Abstract]

Hahnloser D, Nelson H, Gunderson LL, Hassan I, Haddock MG, O'Connell MJ, Cha S, Sargent DJ, Horgan A. Curative potential of multimodality therapy for locally recurrent rectal cancer. Ann Surg 2003 Apr; 237 (4):502-8. [Abstract]

Martenson JA, Vigliotti APG, Pitot HC, Geeraerts LH, Sargents DJ, Haddock MG, Ghosh C, Keppen MD, Fitch TR, Goldberg RM. A phase I study of radiation therapy and twice-weekly gemcitabine and cisplatin in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Bio Phys 2003 Apr 1; 55(5): 1305-10. [Abstract]

Gunderson LL, Haddock MG, Gervaz PA, Martenson JA, Nelson H. Rectal and anal cancers. Chapter 11. In: Conformal radiotherapy planning: Selections and delineation of lymph node areas. V Gregoire, P Scalliet, KK Ang, Editors. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003. [No Abstract Available]

Miller RD, Gunderson LL, Haddock MG. Intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced stomach and esophagus malignancies. Strahlenther Onkol 2003 (in press). [No Abstract Available]

Publications Related to Genitourinary Cancer

Solhjem MC, Davis BJ, Pisansky TM, Wilson TM, Mynderse LA, Herman MG, King BF, Geyer SM. Prostate volume measurement by transrectal ultrasound and computed tomography before and after permanent prostate brachytherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Nov 1; 60(3):767-76. [Abstract]

Pisansky TM, Davis BJ, Stone NN. Morbidity after brachytherapy for prostate adenocarcinoma. Mayo Clinic Proce. 2004 Jul;79(7):946-7; author reply 947-9. [No Abstract Available]

Su Y, Davis BJ, Herman MG, Robb RA. Prostate brachytherapy seed localization by analysis of multiple projections: Identifying and addressing the seed overlap problem. Med Phys 2004 May; 31(5):1277-87. [Abstract]

Herman MG, Pisansky TM, Kruse JJ, Prisciandaro JI, Davis BJ, King BF. Technical aspects of daily on-line positioning of the prostate for three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy using an electronic portal imaging device. Int J of Rad Oncol Bio Phys 2003 Nov 15; 57(4):1131-40. [Abstract]

Solhjem MC, Davis BJ, Pisansky TM, Wilson TM, Mynderse LA, Herman MG, King BF, Geyer SM. Can post-permanent prostate brachytherapy (PPB) transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and computed tomography (CT) image fusion improve reproducibility of post-implant dosimetry? 87th Annual Meeting and Scientific Assemnly of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL. Nov 2003: 154. [No Abstract Available]

Davis BJ, Brinkmann DH, Kruse JJ, Hermann MG, LaJoie WN, Schwartz DJ, Pisansky TM, Kline RW. Selective identification of different brachytherapy sources, ferromagnetic seeds and fiducials in the prostate using an automated seed sorting algorithm. Brachytherapy 2004 Mar; 3(2):106-112. [Abstract]

Davis BJ, Pisansky TM, Leibovich BC. Adjuvant external radiation therapy following radical prostatectomy for node-negative prostate cancer. Curr Opin Urol. 2003 Mar; 13(2):117-22. [Abstract]

Kuntz EE, Atwell TD, Pisansky TM, King BF, Charboneau JW, Hartman RP, Hadaway MA, Davis BJ, Herman MG. Image-guided percutaneous placement of prostate localization seeds. RSNA Meeting, Chicago 2003. [No Abstract Available]

Schwartz DJ, Davis BJ, Vetter RJ, Pisansky TM, Herman MG, Wilson TM, LaJoie WN, Oberg AL. Radiation exposure to operating room personnel during transperineal interstitial permanent prostate brachytherapy. Brachytherapy 2003; 2(2):98-102. [Abstract]

Eschleman JS, Davis BJ, Pisansky TM, Wilson TM, Haddock MG, King BF, Darby CH, LaJoie WN, Oberg AL. Radioactive seed migration to the chest after transperineal interstitial prostate brachytherapy: Extraprostatic seed placement correlates with migration. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2001 Jun 1;59(2):419-25. [Abstract]

Jacobsen SH, Katusic SK, Bostwick DG, Bergstralh EJ, Pisansky TM, Lieber MM. Prostate carcinoma among residents of Olmsted County, Minn. before and after the introduction of serum PSA measurement. In progress. [No Abstract Available]

Pisansky TM, Bergstralh EJ, Blute ML, Zincke H. Impact of adjuvant radiation therapy following radical prostatectomy for pathologic stage C disease (pT3N0M0) prostatic cancer on prostatic antigen levels, local recurrence and survival results. In progress. [No Abstract Available]

Pisansky TM, Bostwick DG, Haddock MG, Earle JD, Cha SS. The impact of elective pelvic nodal irradiation on the ristk of treatment failure in clinically localized prostate carcinoma. In progress. [No Abstract Available]

Thibodeau SN, Schaid DJ, Blute ML, Pisansky TM. Localization of susceptibility loci. In: Prostate Cancer. In progress. [No Abstract Available]

Publications Related to Gynecologic Cancers

Mariani A, Keeney GL, Aletti G, Webb MJ, Haddock MG, Podratz KC. Tumor dissemination to the para-aortic area in endometrial cancer. Gyn Oncol. 2004 Mar; 92(3):833-8. [Abstract]

Publications Related to Lung Cancers

Foote RL, Pollock BE, Link MJ, Garces YI, Kline RW. Leksell gamma knife coordinate slippage: how often, how much?. J Neurosurg. 2004 Oct; 101(4):590-3. [Abstract]

Svobodnik A, Yang P, Novotny PJ, Bass E, Garces YI, Jett JR, Bonner JA, Sloan JA. Quality of life in 650 lung cancer survivors 6 months to 4 years after diagnosis. Mayo Clinic Proc 2004 Aug; 79(8):1024-30. [Abstract]

Ebbert JO, Williams BA, Sun Z, Aubry MC, Wampfler JA, Garces YI, Meyer RL, Yang P. Duration of smoking abstinence as a predictor for non-small cell lung cancer survival in women. Lung Cancer 2004. In press. [No Abstract Available]

Garces YI, Yang P, Parkinson J, Zhao X, Novotny PJ, Wampfler JA, Ebbert JO, Sloan JA. The impact of cigarette smoking on quality of life after diagnosis of lung cancer. Chest 2004. In press. [No Abstract Available]

Garces YI, Yang P, Parkinson J, Zhao X, Novotny PJ, Wampfler JA, Ebbert JO, Sloan JA. Does cigarette smoking have an impact on quality of life after diagnosis of lung cancer?. Quality of life III: Translating the Science of quality-of-life assessment into clinical practice — An example-driven approach for practicing clinicians, clinical researchers. Abstract #22, page D33. Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ (October 2-4, 2003). [No Abstract Available]

Garces YI, Hays TJ, "The art of oncology: When the tumor is not the target. Tobacco dependence: Why should an oncologists care?". J Clin Oncol. 2003 May 1; 21(9):1884-6. [No Abstract Available]

Garces YI, Miller RC. Lung V20 measurements: In regard to Seppenwoolde et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003;55:724-735), and Tsujino et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys
2003;56:1208-1209). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2004 Apr 1;58(5):1636; author reply 1636-7. [No Abstract Available. ]

Publications Related to Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)

Herman MG, Rosenzwieg DP, Hendee WR. Every patient receiving 3D or IMRT must have image-based target localization prior to turning on the beam. Med Phys 2003 Mar; 30 (3):287-9. [No Abstract Available]

Publications Related to the Management of Radiation Side Effects

Kozelsky TK, Meyers GE, Sloan JA, Shanahan TG, Dick SJ, Moore RL, Engeler GP, Frank AR, McKone TK, Urias RE, Pilepich MV, Novotny PJ, Martenson JA. Phase III double-blind stuffy of glutamine versus placebo for the prevention of actue diarrhea in patients receiving pelvic ratiation therapy. J Clin Oncol 2003 May 1; 21(9):1669-74. [Abstract]

Miller RC, Sargent DJ, Martenson JA. Acute diarrhea during and after adjuvant bolus and continuous infusion 5-Fluorouracil chemotherapy and pelvic radiotherapy: A detailed analysis of toxicity from a randomized intergroup trial. Int J Rad Onc Biol 2003 (in press). [No Abstract Available]

Sloan JA, Rummans T, Clark M, Frost M, Atherton P, Bostwick M, Gamble G, Johnson M, Martenson J, Richarson J. A structured multidisciplinary psychosocial intervention improves the quality of life for patients with advanced cancers. Proc Annu Meet Am Soc Clin Oncol (abstract in press). [No Abstract Available]