Eliezer Van Allen, MD

Eliezer Van Allen, MD

Medical Oncology

Contact Information

Office Phone Number

617-632-4524

Fax

617-632-2165

Appointments

877-332-4294 (new)

Biography

Eliezer Van Allen, MD

Researcher

Physician

Chief, Division of Population Sciences
Physician
Associate Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Centers/Programs

Bladder Cancer

Clinical Interests

Genitourinary oncology

Board Certification

  • Internal Medicine, 2010

Fellowship

  • Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, Medical Oncology

Residency

  • University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine

Medical School

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Publications

    • Biomarkers of pembrolizumab efficacy in advanced anal squamous cell carcinoma: analysis of a phase II clinical trial and a cohort of long-term responders. J Immunother Cancer. 2024 Jan 25; 12(1). View in: Pubmed

    • Historical perspective and future directions: computational science in immuno-oncology. J Immunother Cancer. 2024 Jan 08; 12(1). View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic Tumor Correlates of Clinical Outcomes Following Organ-Sparing Chemoradiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Dec 15; 29(24):5116-5127. View in: Pubmed

    • The role of APOBEC3B in lung tumor evolution and targeted cancer therapy resistance. Nat Genet. 2024 Jan; 56(1):60-73. View in: Pubmed

    • Integration of Genomic Sequencing Drives Therapeutic Targeting of PDGFRA in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Nov 14; 29(22):4613-4626. View in: Pubmed

    • Intertumoral lineage diversity and immunosuppressive transcriptional programs in well-differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Sci Adv. 2023 09 29; 9(39):eadd9668. View in: Pubmed

    • Spatially aware deep learning reveals tumor heterogeneity patterns that encode distinct kidney cancer states. Cell Rep Med. 2023 09 19; 4(9):101189. View in: Pubmed

    • Empirical evaluation of language modeling to ascertain cancer outcomes from clinical text reports. BMC Bioinformatics. 2023 Sep 02; 24(1):328. View in: Pubmed

    • Interplay of Mendelian and polygenic risk factors in Arab breast cancer patients. Genome Med. 2023 09 01; 15(1):65. View in: Pubmed

    • Reply to: Addressing racial and ethnic disparities in AACR project GENIE. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2023 Aug 31; 7(1):82. View in: Pubmed

    • Genome-guided discovery of cancer therapeutic targets. Cell Rep. 2023 Aug 29; 42(8):112978. View in: Pubmed

    • Circulating and Intratumoral Immune Determinants of Response to Atezolizumab plus Bevacizumab in Patients with Variant Histology or Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Res. 2023 08 03; 11(8):1114-1124. View in: Pubmed

    • Overcoming Barriers to Tumor Genomic Profiling through Direct-to-Patient Outreach. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 07 05; 29(13):2445-2455. View in: Pubmed

    • Interferon signaling promotes tolerance to chromosomal instability during metastatic evolution in renal cancer. Nat Cancer. 2023 07; 4(7):984-1000. View in: Pubmed

    • First-line Systemic Treatment Options for Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: A Living Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis. JAMA Oncol. 2023 05 01; 9(5):635-645. View in: Pubmed

    • Molecular markers of metastatic disease in KRAS-mutant lung adenocarcinoma. Ann Oncol. 2023 07; 34(7):589-604. View in: Pubmed

    • Current Landscape of Genomic Biomarkers in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Eur Urol. 2023 08; 84(2):166-175. View in: Pubmed

    • A Phase I Study of Combination Olaparib and Radium-223 in Men with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) with Bone Metastases (COMRADE). Mol Cancer Ther. 2023 04 03; 22(4):511-518. View in: Pubmed

    • Impact of an Expanded Definition of Family History on Outcomes of Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer. J Urol. 2023 06; 209(6):1112-1119. View in: Pubmed

    • Spatially aware deep learning reveals tumor heterogeneity patterns that encode distinct kidney cancer states. bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 20. View in: Pubmed

    • Disparities in the Inclusion of Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups and Older Adults in Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials: A Meta-analysis. JAMA Oncol. 2023 02 01; 9(2):180-187. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrative Analysis of Germline Rare Variants in Clear and Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. medRxiv. 2023 Jan 19. View in: Pubmed

    • Racial and ethnic disparities in a real-world precision oncology data registry. NPJ Precis Oncol. 2023 Jan 19; 7(1):7. View in: Pubmed

    • Germline variants associated with toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade. Nat Med. 2022 12; 28(12):2584-2591. View in: Pubmed

    • Randomized Trial of Olaparib With or Without Cediranib for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: The Results From National Cancer Institute 9984. J Clin Oncol. 2023 02 01; 41(4):871-880. View in: Pubmed

    • Phase Ib study of pembrolizumab in combination with trastuzumab emtansine for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer. J Immunother Cancer. 2022 10; 10(10). View in: Pubmed

    • Patterns of structural variation define prostate cancer across disease states. JCI Insight. 2022 09 08; 7(17). View in: Pubmed

    • A patient-driven clinicogenomic partnership for metastatic prostate cancer. Cell Genom. 2022 Sep 14; 2(9). View in: Pubmed

    • Reply to Yuxuan Song, Yiqing Du, and Tao Xu's Letter to the Editor re: Matthew Mossanen, Filipe L.F. Carvalho, Vinayak Muralidhar, et al. Genomic Features of Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Arising After Prostate Radiotherapy. Eur Urol 2022;81:466-73. Eur Urol. 2022 11; 82(5):e141-e142. View in: Pubmed

    • Mutational Footprint of Platinum Chemotherapy in a Secondary Thyroid Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 08; 6:e2200183. View in: Pubmed

    • Addition of Germline Testing to Tumor-Only Sequencing Improves Detection of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 Aug; 6:e2200329. View in: Pubmed

    • Association of High Tumor Mutation Burden in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers With Increased Immune Infiltration and Improved Clinical Outcomes of PD-L1 Blockade Across PD-L1 Expression Levels. JAMA Oncol. 2022 08 01; 8(8):1160-1168. View in: Pubmed

    • A Process Framework for Ethically Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Oncology. J Clin Oncol. 2022 12 01; 40(34):3907-3911. View in: Pubmed

    • Tissue-resident memory and circulating T cells are early responders to pre-surgical cancer immunotherapy. Cell. 2022 08 04; 185(16):2918-2935.e29. View in: Pubmed

    • Multidimensional Molecular Profiling of Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Benefit. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 07; 6:e2100413. View in: Pubmed

    • Molecular profiling identifies targeted therapy opportunities in pediatric solid cancer. Nat Med. 2022 08; 28(8):1581-1589. View in: Pubmed

    • Insights into Immune Escape During Tumor Evolution and Response to Immunotherapy Using a Rat Model of Breast Cancer. Cancer Immunol Res. 2022 06 03; 10(6):680-697. View in: Pubmed

    • CREB5 reprograms FOXA1 nuclear interactions to promote resistance to androgen receptor-targeting therapies. Elife. 2022 05 12; 11. View in: Pubmed

    • Computed Tomography Texture Analysis for Predicting Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Oncologist. 2022 05 06; 27(5):389-397. View in: Pubmed

    • Germline predisposition to pediatric Ewing sarcoma is characterized by inherited pathogenic variants in DNA damage repair genes. Am J Hum Genet. 2022 06 02; 109(6):1026-1037. View in: Pubmed

    • Autocrine Canonical Wnt Signaling Primes Noncanonical Signaling through ROR1 in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res. 2022 04 15; 82(8):1518-1533. View in: Pubmed

    • Genome-wide analysis of somatic noncoding mutation patterns in cancer. Science. 2022 04 08; 376(6589):eabg5601. View in: Pubmed

    • Concurrent TP53 Mutations Facilitate Resistance Evolution in EGFR-Mutant Lung Adenocarcinoma. J Thorac Oncol. 2022 06; 17(6):779-792. View in: Pubmed

    • Linking a Trio of Molecular Features in Clear-Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Res. 2022 03 01; 10(3):274. View in: Pubmed

    • Towards a Better Understanding of Antibody-Drug Conjugates in Urothelial Carcinoma. Eur Urol Oncol. 2022 Jan 29. View in: Pubmed

    • Implementation of a prostate cancer-specific targeted sequencing panel for credentialing of patient-derived cell lines and genomic characterization of patient samples. Prostate. 2022 04; 82(5):584-597. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrative clinical and molecular characterization of translocation renal cell carcinoma. Cell Rep. 2022 01 04; 38(1):110190. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic Features of Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Arising After Prostate Radiotherapy. Eur Urol. 2022 05; 81(5):466-473. View in: Pubmed

    • Artificial intelligence-aided clinical annotation of a large multi-cancer genomic dataset. Nat Commun. 2021 12 15; 12(1):7304. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic attributes of homology-directed DNA repair deficiency in metastatic prostate cancer. JCI Insight. 2021 12 08; 6(23). View in: Pubmed

    • Building Tools for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research: Best Practices and a Case Study with the PathML Toolkit for Computational Pathology. Mol Cancer Res. 2022 02; 20(2):202-206. View in: Pubmed

    • Inherited TP53 Variants and Risk of Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol. 2022 Mar; 81(3):243-250. View in: Pubmed

    • RAF1 amplification drives a subset of bladder tumors and confers sensitivity to MAPK-directed therapeutics. J Clin Invest. 2021 11 15; 131(22). View in: Pubmed

    • Tumor Mutations Across Racial Groups in a Real-World Data Registry. JCO Precis Oncol. 2021 11; 5:1654-1658. View in: Pubmed

    • Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Participants in Precision Oncology Clinical Studies. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 11 01; 4(11):e2133205. View in: Pubmed

    • Subtype heterogeneity and epigenetic convergence in neuroendocrine prostate cancer. Nat Commun. 2021 10 01; 12(1):5775. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrating molecular profiles into clinical frameworks through the Molecular Oncology Almanac to prospectively guide precision oncology. Nat Cancer. 2021 10; 2(10):1102-1112. View in: Pubmed

    • Biologically informed deep neural network for prostate cancer discovery. Nature. 2021 10; 598(7880):348-352. View in: Pubmed

    • Molecular correlates of response to eribulin and pembrolizumab in hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer. Nat Commun. 2021 09 21; 12(1):5563. View in: Pubmed

    • Molecular features of exceptional response to neoadjuvant anti-androgen therapy in high-risk localized prostate cancer. Cell Rep. 2021 09 07; 36(10):109665. View in: Pubmed

    • Nivolumab in combination with cabozantinib for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer: a phase II and biomarker study. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2021 Aug 25; 7(1):110. View in: Pubmed

    • Discovery and Features of an Alkylating Signature in Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Discov. 2021 10; 11(10):2446-2455. View in: Pubmed

    • Transcriptional profiling of primary prostate tumor in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer and association with clinical outcomes: correlative analysis of the E3805 CHAARTED trial. Ann Oncol. 2021 09; 32(9):1157-1166. View in: Pubmed

    • Gene Fusions Create Partner and Collateral Dependencies Essential to Cancer Cell Survival. Cancer Res. 2021 08 01; 81(15):3971-3984. View in: Pubmed

    • Clinical Inflection Point Detection on the Basis of EHR Data to Identify Clinical Trial-Ready Patients With Cancer. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2021 06; 5:622-630. View in: Pubmed

    • Evolution of delayed resistance to immunotherapy in a melanoma responder. Nat Med. 2021 06; 27(6):985-992. View in: Pubmed

    • Impact of Pathogenic Germline DNA Damage Repair alterations on Response to Intense Neoadjuvant Androgen Deprivation Therapy in High-risk Localized Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol. 2021 09; 80(3):295-303. View in: Pubmed

    • Phase II Multicenter Study of Enzalutamide in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer to Identify Mechanisms Driving Resistance. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 07 01; 27(13):3610-3619. View in: Pubmed

    • Intrinsic Immunogenicity of Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Revealed by Its Cellular Plasticity. Cancer Discov. 2021 08; 11(8):1952-1969. View in: Pubmed

    • Tumor and immune reprogramming during immunotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Cell. 2021 05 10; 39(5):649-661.e5. View in: Pubmed

    • Transcriptional mediators of treatment resistance in lethal prostate cancer. Nat Med. 2021 03; 27(3):426-433. View in: Pubmed

    • Dissecting the immunogenomic biology of cancer for biomarker development. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2021 03; 18(3):133-134. View in: Pubmed

    • Systematic auditing is essential to debiasing machine learning in biology. Commun Biol. 2021 02 10; 4(1):183. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrative molecular characterization of sarcomatoid and rhabdoid renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun. 2021 02 05; 12(1):808. View in: Pubmed

    • Evaluating the molecular diagnostic yield of joint genotyping-based approach for detecting rare germline pathogenic and putative loss-of-function variants. Genet Med. 2021 05; 23(5):918-926. View in: Pubmed

    • Beyond conventional immune-checkpoint inhibition - novel immunotherapies for renal cell carcinoma. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2021 04; 18(4):199-214. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrated Analysis of Germ Cell Tumors. Methods Mol Biol. 2021; 2195:181-187. View in: Pubmed

    • Predicting immunotherapy response through genomics. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2021 02; 66:1-9. View in: Pubmed

    • Clinical Efficacy and Molecular Response Correlates of the WEE1 Inhibitor Adavosertib Combined with Cisplatin in Patients with Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 02 15; 27(4):983-991. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrated molecular drivers coordinate biological and clinical states in melanoma. Nat Genet. 2020 12; 52(12):1373-1383. View in: Pubmed

    • Re: Russell E.N. Becker, Alexa R. Meyer, Aaron Brant, et al. Clinical Restaging and Tumor Sequencing are Inaccurate Indicators of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.07.016. Eur Urol. 2021 02; 79(2):e56-e57. View in: Pubmed

    • Identification of a Synthetic Lethal Relationship between Nucleotide Excision Repair Deficiency and Irofulven Sensitivity in Urothelial Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 04 01; 27(7):2011-2022. View in: Pubmed

    • Accelerating precision medicine in metastatic prostate cancer. Nat Cancer. 2020 11; 1(11):1041-1053. View in: Pubmed

    • Detection of Pathogenic Variants With Germline Genetic Testing Using Deep Learning vs Standard Methods in Patients With Prostate Cancer and Melanoma. JAMA. 2020 11 17; 324(19):1957-1969. View in: Pubmed

    • Germ Cell Tumor Molecular Heterogeneity Revealed Through Analysis of Primary and Metastasis Pairs. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020; 4. View in: Pubmed

    • Functional Precision Medicine Identifies New Therapeutic Candidates for Medulloblastoma. Cancer Res. 2020 12 01; 80(23):5393-5407. View in: Pubmed

    • Effect of Eribulin With or Without Pembrolizumab on Progression-Free Survival for Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive, ERBB2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2020 10 01; 6(10):1598-1605. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic Predictors of Good Outcome, Recurrence, or Progression in High-Grade T1 Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer. Cancer Res. 2020 10 15; 80(20):4476-4486. View in: Pubmed

    • A phase 2 trial of buparlisib in patients with platinum-resistant metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Cancer. 2020 10 15; 126(20):4532-4544. View in: Pubmed

    • Targeting the innate immunoreceptor RIG-I overcomes melanoma-intrinsic resistance to T cell immunotherapy. J Clin Invest. 2020 08 03; 130(8):4266-4281. View in: Pubmed

    • Natural Language Processing to Ascertain Cancer Outcomes From Medical Oncologist Notes. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2020 08; 4:680-690. View in: Pubmed

    • CoMut: visualizing integrated molecular information with comutation plots. Bioinformatics. 2020 08 01; 36(15):4348-4349. View in: Pubmed

    • Author Correction: Integrative molecular and clinical modeling of clinical outcomes to PD1 blockade in patients with metastatic melanoma. Nat Med. 2020 Jul; 26(7):1147. View in: Pubmed

    • FiTAc-seq: fixed-tissue ChIP-seq for H3K27ac profiling and super-enhancer analysis of FFPE tissues. Nat Protoc. 2020 08; 15(8):2503-2518. View in: Pubmed

    • Clonal hematopoiesis is associated with adverse outcomes in multiple myeloma patients undergoing transplant. Nat Commun. 2020 06 12; 11(1):2996. View in: Pubmed

    • Cancer Moonshot Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN): accelerating the clinical translation of basic discoveries for improving immunotherapy and immunoprevention of cancer. J Immunother Cancer. 2020 06; 8(1). View in: Pubmed

    • Interplay of somatic alterations and immune infiltration modulates response to PD-1 blockade in advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Nat Med. 2020 06; 26(6):909-918. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic Profiling of Smoldering Multiple Myeloma Identifies Patients at a High Risk of Disease Progression. J Clin Oncol. 2020 07 20; 38(21):2380-2389. View in: Pubmed

    • Characterizing diversity in the tumor-immune microenvironment of distinct subclasses of gastroesophageal adenocarcinomas. Ann Oncol. 2020 08; 31(8):1011-1020. View in: Pubmed

    • Inactivation of Fbxw7 Impairs dsRNA Sensing and Confers Resistance to PD-1 Blockade. Cancer Discov. 2020 09; 10(9):1296-1311. View in: Pubmed

    • Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals compromised immune microenvironment in precursor stages of multiple myeloma. Nat Cancer. 2020 05; 1(5):493-506. View in: Pubmed

    • Mammalian SWI/SNF Complex Genomic Alterations and Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Solid Tumors. Cancer Immunol Res. 2020 08; 8(8):1075-1084. View in: Pubmed

    • Engaging Patients in Precision Oncology: Development and Usability of a Web-Based Patient-Facing Genomic Sequencing Report. JCO Precis Oncol. 2020; 4. View in: Pubmed

    • Germline Features Associated with Immune Infiltration in Solid Tumors. Cell Rep. 2020 03 03; 30(9):2900-2908.e4. View in: Pubmed

    • ATM Loss Confers Greater Sensitivity to ATR Inhibition Than PARP Inhibition in Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res. 2020 06 01; 80(11):2094-2100. View in: Pubmed

    • Tumor Mutational Burden and PTEN Alterations as Molecular Correlates of Response to PD-1/L1 Blockade in Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 06 01; 26(11):2565-2572. View in: Pubmed

    • Identification of cancer driver genes based on nucleotide context. Nat Genet. 2020 02; 52(2):208-218. View in: Pubmed

    • The role of site-specific therapy for cancers of unknown of primary: A meta-analysis. Eur J Cancer. 2020 03; 127:118-122. View in: Pubmed

    • A model combining clinical and genomic factors to predict response to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in advanced urothelial carcinoma. Br J Cancer. 2020 02; 122(4):555-563. View in: Pubmed

    • Prevalence of pathogenic germline cancer risk variants in high-risk urothelial carcinoma. Genet Med. 2020 04; 22(4):709-718. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrative molecular and clinical modeling of clinical outcomes to PD1 blockade in patients with metastatic melanoma. Nat Med. 2019 12; 25(12):1916-1927. View in: Pubmed

    • CREB5 Promotes Resistance to Androgen-Receptor Antagonists and Androgen Deprivation in Prostate Cancer. Cell Rep. 2019 11 19; 29(8):2355-2370.e6. View in: Pubmed

    • Results of a Multicenter Phase II Study of Atezolizumab and Bevacizumab for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma With Variant Histology and/or Sarcomatoid Features. J Clin Oncol. 2020 01 01; 38(1):63-70. View in: Pubmed

    • Harmonization of Tumor Mutational Burden Quantification and Association With Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2019; 3. View in: Pubmed

    • Scaling computational genomics to millions of individuals with GPUs. Genome Biol. 2019 11 01; 20(1):228. View in: Pubmed

    • Clinical Validation of PBRM1 Alterations as a Marker of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Response in Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Oncol. 2019 Nov 01; 5(11):1631-1633. View in: Pubmed

    • Assessment of Deep Natural Language Processing in Ascertaining Oncologic Outcomes From Radiology Reports. JAMA Oncol. 2019 Oct 01; 5(10):1421-1429. View in: Pubmed

    • Metabolomic adaptations and correlates of survival to immune checkpoint blockade. Nat Commun. 2019 09 25; 10(1):4346. View in: Pubmed

    • Finding the edge of the seat. Nat Med. 2019 09; 25(9):1328. View in: Pubmed

    • Publisher Correction: The long tail of oncogenic drivers in prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2019 Jul; 51(7):1194. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrative Molecular Characterization of Resistance to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in Rectal Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 09 15; 25(18):5561-5571. View in: Pubmed

    • Intrinsic Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in a Mismatch Repair-Deficient Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 08; 7(8):1230-1236. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic Evolutionary Patterns of Leiomyosarcoma and Liposarcoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 08 15; 25(16):5135-5142. View in: Pubmed

    • Mechanisms of Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade: Why Does Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy Not Work for All Patients? Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book. 2019 Jan; 39:147-164. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic correlates of clinical outcome in advanced prostate cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 06 04; 116(23):11428-11436. View in: Pubmed

    • Correction: Detection of circulating tumour DNA is associated with inferior outcomes in Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group. Br J Cancer. 2019 Apr; 120(8):869. View in: Pubmed

    • Association of Inherited Pathogenic Variants in Checkpoint Kinase 2 (CHEK2) With Susceptibility to Testicular Germ Cell Tumors. JAMA Oncol. 2019 Apr 01; 5(4):514-522. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint blockade. Nat Med. 2019 03; 25(3):389-402. View in: Pubmed

    • Mutational Analysis of 472 Urothelial Carcinoma Across Grades and Anatomic Sites. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 04 15; 25(8):2458-2470. View in: Pubmed

    • Compound Genomic Alterations of TP53, PTEN, and RB1 Tumor Suppressors in Localized and Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol. 2019 07; 76(1):89-97. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomics of response to immune checkpoint therapies for cancer: implications for precision medicine. Genome Med. 2018 11 29; 10(1):93. View in: Pubmed

    • Immunogenomic analyses associate immunological alterations with mismatch repair defects in prostate cancer. J Clin Invest. 2018 11 01; 128(11):5185. View in: Pubmed

    • A Cancer Cell Program Promotes T Cell Exclusion and Resistance to Checkpoint Blockade. Cell. 2018 11 01; 175(4):984-997.e24. View in: Pubmed

    • Everolimus and pazopanib (E/P) benefit genomically selected patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Br J Cancer. 2018 09; 119(6):707-712. View in: Pubmed

    • Immunogenomic analyses associate immunological alterations with mismatch repair defects in prostate cancer. J Clin Invest. 2018 10 01; 128(10):4441-4453. View in: Pubmed

    • A framework to rank genomic alterations as targets for cancer precision medicine: the ESMO Scale for Clinical Actionability of molecular Targets (ESCAT). Ann Oncol. 2018 09 01; 29(9):1895-1902. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint blockade in microsatellite-stable solid tumors. Nat Genet. 2018 09; 50(9):1271-1281. View in: Pubmed

    • Detection of circulating tumour DNA is associated with inferior outcomes in Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group. Br J Cancer. 2018 08; 119(5):615-621. View in: Pubmed

    • Intron retention is a source of neoepitopes in cancer. Nat Biotechnol. 2018 12; 36(11):1056-1058. View in: Pubmed

    • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations. Cell. 2018 08 09; 174(4):1034-1035. View in: Pubmed

    • ERCC2 Helicase Domain Mutations Confer Nucleotide Excision Repair Deficiency and Drive Cisplatin Sensitivity in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 02 01; 25(3):977-988. View in: Pubmed

    • Detection of Somatic Structural Variants Enables Quantification and Characterization of Circulating Tumor DNA in Children With Solid Tumors. JCO Precis Oncol. 2018; 2018. View in: Pubmed

    • LSD1 Ablation Stimulates Anti-tumor Immunity and Enables Checkpoint Blockade. Cell. 2018 07 26; 174(3):549-563.e19. View in: Pubmed

    • Neoadjuvant-Intensive Androgen Deprivation Therapy Selects for Prostate Tumor Foci with Diverse Subclonal Oncogenic Alterations. Cancer Res. 2018 08 15; 78(16):4716-4730. View in: Pubmed

    • Early loss of mitochondrial complex I and rewiring of glutathione metabolism in renal oncocytoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 07 03; 115(27):E6283-E6290. View in: Pubmed

    • Structural Alterations Driving Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Revealed by Linked-Read Genome Sequencing. Cell. 2018 07 12; 174(2):433-447.e19. View in: Pubmed

    • Enrichment of FGFR3-TACC3 Fusions in Patients With Bladder Cancer Who Are Young, Asian, or Have Never Smoked. JCO Precis Oncol. 2018; 2. View in: Pubmed

    • The Clinical Activity of PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitors in Metastatic Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Res. 2018 07; 6(7):758-765. View in: Pubmed

    • Interactive or static reports to guide clinical interpretation of cancer genomics. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 05 01; 25(5):458-464. View in: Pubmed

    • Whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA and circulating tumor cells in multiple myeloma. Nat Commun. 2018 04 27; 9(1):1691. View in: Pubmed

    • Cancer-Germline Antigen Expression Discriminates Clinical Outcome to CTLA-4 Blockade. Cell. 2018 04 19; 173(3):624-633.e8. View in: Pubmed

    • Integrated genomic characterization of oral carcinomas in post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation survivors. Oral Oncol. 2018 06; 81:1-9. View in: Pubmed

    • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas. Cell. 2018 04 05; 173(2):321-337.e10. View in: Pubmed

    • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations. Cell. 2018 04 05; 173(2):371-385.e18. View in: Pubmed

    • The long tail of oncogenic drivers in prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2018 05; 50(5):645-651. View in: Pubmed

    • Phase I Trial of a Tablet Formulation of Pilaralisib, a Pan-Class I PI3K Inhibitor, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors. Oncologist. 2018 04; 23(4):401-e38. View in: Pubmed

    • Inherited DNA-Repair Defects in Colorectal Cancer. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 03 01; 102(3):401-414. View in: Pubmed

    • Convergent Therapeutic Strategies to Overcome the Heterogeneity of Acquired Resistance in BRAFV600E Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Discov. 2018 04; 8(4):417-427. View in: Pubmed

    • Change in Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in response to immune checkpoint blockade for metastatic renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer. 2018 01 22; 6(1):5. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint therapies in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Science. 2018 Feb 16; 359(6377):801-806. View in: Pubmed

    • Mutational patterns in chemotherapy resistant muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Nat Commun. 2017 12 19; 8(1):2193. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic Resistance Patterns to Second-Generation Androgen Blockade in Paired Tumor Biopsies of Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol. 2017; 1. View in: Pubmed

    • Tumor Evolution: A Problem of Histocompatibility. Cell. 2017 11 30; 171(6):1252-1253. View in: Pubmed

    • Scalable whole-exome sequencing of cell-free DNA reveals high concordance with metastatic tumors. Nat Commun. 2017 11 06; 8(1):1324. View in: Pubmed

    • Ex Vivo Profiling of PD-1 Blockade Using Organotypic Tumor Spheroids. Cancer Discov. 2018 02; 8(2):196-215. View in: Pubmed

    • The Potential and Challenges of Expanded Germline Testing in Clinical Oncology. JAMA. 2017 09 05; 318(9):801-803. View in: Pubmed

    • Decomposing Oncogenic Transcriptional Signatures to Generate Maps of Divergent Cellular States. Cell Syst. 2017 08 23; 5(2):105-118.e9. View in: Pubmed

    • Genomic profiling of ER+ breast cancers after short-term estrogen suppression reveals alterations associated with endocrine resistance. Sci Transl Med. 2017 Aug 09; 9(402). View in: Pubmed

    • Transforming the Perioperative Treatment Paradigm in Non-Metastatic RCC-A Possible Path Forward. Kidney Cancer. 2017 Jul 26; 1(1):31-40. View in: Pubmed

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