Selected Publications
 
  1. Hartford A., Niemierko A., Adams J., Urie M., Schipley W. Conformal irradiation of the prostate: estimating long-term rectal bleeding risk using dose-volume histograms. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 1996; 36(3):721-730.
  2. Ancukiewicz M. An unsupervised an non-parametric classification procedure based on mixtures with known weights. Journal of Classification. 1998; 15:129-141.
  3. Terahara A., Niemierko A., Goitein M., Finkelstein D., Hug E., Liebsch N., O'Farrell D., Lyons S., Munzenrider J. Analysis of the relationship between tumor dose inhomogeneity and local control in patients with skull base chordoma. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 1999; 45(2):351-358.
  4. Lee CG, Heijn M, di Tomaso E, Griffon-Etienne G, Ancukiewicz M, Koike C, Park KR, Ferrara N, Jain RK, Suit HD, Boucher Y. Anti-Vascular endothelial growth factor treatment augments tumor radiation response under normoxic or hypoxic conditions. Cancer Research. 2000; 60:5565-70.
  5. Taghian A.G., Assaad S.I., Niemierko A., Kuter I., Younger J., Schoenthalor R., Roche M., Powell S. Risk of radiation pneumonitis in patients with breast cancer treated by combination chemotherapy including paclitaxel with radiation therapy. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2001; 93: 1806-1811.
  6. Chawla A., Taghian A.G., Powell S.N., Niemierko A., May J.W., Hamori C., Zapton D.T., Kachnic L.A. Radiation Therapy and Breast Reconstruction: Complications and Cosmesis with TRAM versus Tissue Expanders. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 2002, 54(2):520-526.
  7. Choi N.C., Fischman A., Niemierko A., Ryu J.S., Lynch T., Wain J., Wright C., Fidias P., Mathisen D. Dose-response relationship between probability of pathologic tumor control and glucose metabolic rate measured with FDG PET after preoperative chemo-radiotherapy in advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 2002; 54(4):1024-1035.
  8. Loeffler J.S., Niemierko A., Chapman P.H. Radiation-associated second tumors following radiosurgery: tip of an iceberg or bump on the road? Neurosurgery. 2003 Jun; 52(6):1436-42.
  9. Weber DC, Chan AW, Bussiere MR, Harsh GR 4th, Ancukiewicz M, Barker FG 2nd, Thornton AT, Martuza RL, Nadol JB Jr, Chapman PH, Loeffler JS. Proton beam radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: tumor control and cranial nerve toxicity. Neurosurgery. 2003; 53:577-86; discussion 586-8.
  10. Suit H, Goldberg S, Niemierko A, Trofimov A, Adams J, Paganetti H, Chen GT, Bortfeld T, Rosenthal S, Loeffler J, Delaney T. Proton beams to replace photon beams in radical dose treatments. Acta Oncol. 2003;42(8):800-8.
  11. Ancukiewicz M, Finkelstein DM, Schoenfeld DA. Modeling the relationship between continuous covariates and clinical events using isotonic regression. Statistics in Medicine. 2003; 57:701-8.
  12. Marucci L., Niemierko A., Liebsch N.J., Aboubaker F., Liu M.C.C., Munzenrider J.E. Spinal cord tolerance to high dose fractionated 3D conformal proton-photon irradiation as evaluated by Equivalent Uniform Dose and dose volume histogram analysis. Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 2004; 59(2):551-555.
  13. Lawenda B.D., Gagne H., Gierga D.P., Niemierko A., Wong W., Tarbell N.J., Chen D.T.Y., Loeffler J.S. Permanent alopecia after cranial irradiation: Dose-response relationship Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 2004; 60(3):879-887.
  14. Brower RG, Lanken PN, MacIntyre N, Matthay MA, Morris A, Ancukiewicz M, Schoenfeld D, Thompson BT; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ARDS Clinical Trials Network. Higher versus lower positive end-expiratory pressures in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome. NEJM. 2004; 351:327-36.
  15. Willett CG, Del Castillo CF, Shih HA, Goldberg S, Biggs P, Clark JW, Lauwers G, Ryan DP, Zhu AX, Warshaw AL. Long-term results of intraoperative electron beam irradiation (IOERT) for patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer. Ann Surg. 2005 Feb;241(2):295-9.
  16. Ceilley E, Jagsi R, Goldberg S, Grignon L, Kachnic L, Powell S, Taghian A. Radiotherapy for invasive breast cancer in North America and Europe: Results of a survey. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005 Feb 1;61(2):365-73.
  17. Delaney TF, Park L, Goldberg SI, Hug EB, Liebsch NJ, Munzenrider JE, Suit HD. Radiotherapy for local control of osteosarcoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005 Feb 1;61(2):492-8.
  18. Taghian AG, Abi-Raad R, Assaad SI, Casty A, Ancukiewicz M, Yeh E, Molokhia P, Attia K, Sullivan T, Kuter I, Boucher Y, and Powell SN. Paclitaxel Decreases the Interstitial fluid pressure and Improves Oxygenation in Breast Cancers in Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant chemotherapy: clinical implications. J. Clin. Oncol. 2005; in print.
  19. Taghian A.G., Assaad S.I., Niemierko A., Floyd S.R., Powell S.N. Is a reduction in the radiation lung volume and dose necessary with paclitaxel chemotherapy for node positive breast cancer? Accepted for publication in Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.
  20. Pieters R.S., Fullerton B.F., Niemierko A., Munzenrider J.E. Cauda equina tolerance to high dose fractionated irradiation. Accepted for publication in Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.