2019
Short Tandem Repeats Define a Gestational Origin for Metastatic Choriocarcinoma
Brown K, Homer R, Baine M, Blasberg JD. Short Tandem Repeats Define a Gestational Origin for Metastatic Choriocarcinoma. The Annals Of Thoracic Surgery 2019, 108: e115-e117. PMID: 30685255, DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.12.038.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPlacenta accretaSpontaneous hemothoraxGestational choriocarcinomaLower lobe massMetastatic gestational choriocarcinomaHealthy female patientsAdjuvant therapyMetastatic choriocarcinomaSurgical explorationChief complaintFemale patientsOutside hospitalRare consequenceUnreported causeGestational originClinical implicationsChoriocarcinomaAccretaHemothoraxResectionPatientsPrognosisHospitalShortnessTherapy
2018
Beyond TNM: Searching for New Patient-Centric Prognostic Indicators in NSCLC
Saffarzadeh AG, Blasberg JD. Beyond TNM: Searching for New Patient-Centric Prognostic Indicators in NSCLC. Annals Of Surgical Oncology 2018, 25: 3425-3426. PMID: 30155757, DOI: 10.1245/s10434-018-6714-0.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2012
Plasma osteopontin velocity differentiates lung cancers from controls in a CT screening population
Joseph S, Harrington R, Walter D, Goldberg JD, Li X, Beck A, Litton T, Hirsch N, Blasberg J, Slomiany M, Rom W, Pass H, Donington J. Plasma osteopontin velocity differentiates lung cancers from controls in a CT screening population. Cancer Biomarkers 2012, 12: 177-184. PMID: 23568008, PMCID: PMC3746829, DOI: 10.3233/cbm-130306.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIncident cancerPlasma osteopontinNon-small cell lung cancer careLung cancer careCase-control studySerial plasmaNSCLC patientsCT screeningSurveillance intervalsCancer careLung cancerPlasma levelsWilcoxon Signed Rank TestDisease statusCancerSigned Rank TestBenign nodulesSecreted phosphoproteinCTRank testOsteopontinEarly evidenceNSCLCPatientsNSCLCs
2010
Functional Heterogeneity of Osteopontin Isoforms in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Goparaju CM, Pass HI, Blasberg JD, Hirsch N, Donington JS. Functional Heterogeneity of Osteopontin Isoforms in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal Of Thoracic Oncology 2010, 5: 1516-1523. PMID: 20689445, PMCID: PMC3122268, DOI: 10.1097/jto.0b013e3181eba6bd.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchApoptosisBiomarkers, TumorBlotting, WesternCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCell AdhesionCell Line, TumorCell MovementCell ProliferationColony-Forming Units AssayEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionGene Expression ProfilingHumansLung NeoplasmsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOsteopontinProtein IsoformsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerWound Healing