Selected Publications By the Members of the MSS (2001)

  1. Arani RA,Soong S-J,Weiss HL, Wood MJ, Gnann JW, Fiddian PA and Richard Whitley. Phase Specific Analysis of Herpes Zoster Associated Pain Data: A New Statistical Approach. Statistics in Medicine 20:2429-2439, 2001.
  2. Balch CM, Soong S-J, Gershenwald JE, Thompson JF, Reintgen DS, Cascinelli N, Urist M, McMasters KM, Ross MI, Kirkwood JM, Atkins MB, Thompson JA, Coit DG, Byrd D, Desmond R, Zhang Y, Liu P, Lyman GH, Morabito A: Prognostic Factors Analysis of 17,600 Melanoma Patients. Validation of the New AJCC Melanoma Staging System. Journal of Clinical Oncology19(16):3622-3634, 2001.
  3. Balch CM, Buzaid AC, Soong S-J, Atkins MB, Cascinelli N, Coit DG, Fleming ID, Gershenwald JE, Houghton A, Kirkwood JM, McMasters KM, Mihm MF, Morton DL, Reintgen DS, Ross MI, Sober A, Thompson JA, Thompson JF. Final Version of the AJCC Staging Sytem For Cutaneous Melanoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology19(16):3635-3648, 2001.
  4. Balch CM, Soong Sj, Ross M, Urist MM, Karakousis P, Temple WJ, Mihm M, Barnhill RL, Jewell WR, Wanebo HJ, Harrison RA & The Intergroup Melanoma Surgical Trial. Long-term Results of a Prospective Surgical Trial Comparing 2cm Vs. 4 cm. Excision Margins for 740 Patients with 1-4 mm Melanomas. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2001;8:101-108.
  5. Kimberlin DW, Lin CY, Jacobs RF, Powell DA, Frenkel L, Gruber W, Rathore M, Bradley J, Diaz PS, Kumar M, Arvin AM, Gutierrez K, Shelton M, Weiner LB, Sleasman JW, Murguia de Sierra, Soong S-J, et al, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Collaborative Anitviral Study Group: Natural History of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infectious in the Acyclovir Era. Pediatrics108(2):223-229,2001.
  6. Kimberlin DW, Lin CY, Jacobs RF, Powell DA, Corey L, Gruber WC, Rathmore M, Bradley JS, Diza PS, Kumar M. Arvin AM, Gutierrez K, Shelton M, Weiner LB, Sleasman JW, Murguia de Sierra T, Weller S, Soong S-j, et al, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborative Antiviral Study Group. The Safety and Efficacy of High-Dose Intravenous Acyclovir in the Management of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infections. Pediatrics 108(2):230-238, 2001.
  7. Desmond RA , Waterbor JW, Hallberg GR, Arani, RB. A Case Study in Hierarchical Modeling: Agriculture and Prostate Cancer in Iowa. Biometrical Journal2001:43:435-445.
  8. Douglas JT, Kim M, Sumerel LA, Carey DE, Curiel DT. Efficient Oncolysis by a Replicating Adenovirus in Vivo is Critically Dependent on Tumor Expression of Primary Adenovirus Receptors. Cancer Research 61: 813-817, 2001.
  9. Mahasreshti PJ, Navarro JG, Kataram M, Wang MH, Carey D, Siegal GP, Barnes MN, Nettelbeck DM, Alvarez RD, Hemminki A, Curiel DT. Adenovirus-mediated Soluble FLT-1 Gene Therapy for Ovarian Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research 7(7):2057-2066, 2001.
  10. Robert F, Ezekiel MP, Spencer SA, Meredith RF, Bonner JA, Khazaeli MB, Saleh MN, Carey D, LoBuglio AF, Wheeler RH, Cooper MR, Waksal HW. Phase I Study of Anti-Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Antibody Cetuximab (C225) in Combination with Radiation Therapy in Patients with Advanced Head and Neck Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 19:3234-3243, 2001.
  11. Call SA, Saag MS, Westfall AO , Raper JL, Pham SV, Tolson JM, Hellman NS, Cloud GA , Johnson VA. Phenotypic Drug Susceptibility is a Better Predictor of Long-term Virologic Suppression Than Treatment History Alone in Antiretroviral-experienced Patients. Journal of Infectious Diseases 183:401-408, 2001.
  12. Hajjeh RA, Pappas PG, Henderson H, Lancaster D, Bamberger DM, Skahan KJ, Phelan MA, Cloud G , Holloway M, Wheat LJ and the MSG Endemic Mycoses Subproject Group. A Multicenter, Case-Control Study of Risk Factors for Histoplasmosis in HIV-Infected Persons. Clinical Infectious Disease 32 (15 April):1215-1220, 2001.
  13. LeMonte AN, Goldman M, Smedema ML, Connolly PA, McKinsey DS, Cloud GA, Kauffman CA, Wheat LJ; and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group. DNA Fingerprinting of Serial Candida Isolates Obtained During Itraconazole Prophlylaxis in Patients with AIDS. Medical Mycology 39:207-213, 2001.
  14. Pappas PG, Perfect JR, Cloud GA , Larsen RA, Pankey GA, Lancaster DJ, Henderson H, Henderson H, Kauffman CA, Haas DW, Saccente M, Hamill RJ, Holloway MS, Warren RM, Dismukes, WE. Cryptococcosis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Negative Patients in the Era of Effective Azole Therapy. Clinical Infectious Diseases 33:690-699, 2001.
  15. Rex JH, Walsh TJ, Nettleman M, Anaissie EJ, Bennett JE, Bow E, Carillo-Munoz AJ, Chavanet P, Cloud GA , Denning DW, de Pauw, BE, Edwards JE, Hiemenz JW, Kauffman CA, Lopez-Berestein GL, Martino P, Sobel JD, Stevens DA, Sylvester R, Tollemar J, Viviani MA, Viscoli C, Wu T. Need for Alternative Trial Designs and Evaluation Strategies for Therapeutic Studies of Invasive Mycoses. Clinical Infectious Diseases 33:95-106, 2001.
  16. Wheat LJ, Cloud GA , Johnson PC, Connolly P, Goldman M, Le Monte Ann, Fuller DE, Davis TE, and Richard Hafner for the AIDS Clinical Trial Group and the Mycoses Study Group of the National Institute of the Allergy and Infectious Disease. Clearance of Fungal Burden During Treatment of Disseminated Histoplasmosis with Liposomal Amphotericin B vs. Itraconazole. Anti Microbial Agents and Chemotherapy 45(8):2354-2357, 2001.
  17. Go RCP, Desmond R, Roseman JM, Bell DSH, Vanichanan C, Acton RT. Prevalence and Risk Factors of Microalbuminuria in a Cohort of African American Women with Gestational Diabetes. Diabetes Care 24:1764-9, 2001.
  18. Hemminki A, Dmitriev I, Liu B, Desmond RA, Alemary R, Curiel DT. Targeting oncolytic adenoviral agents to the epidermal growth factor pathway with a secretory fusion molecule. Cancer Research61:6377-81, 2001.
  19. Rubin E, Mennemeyer ST, Desmond RA, Urist MM, Waterbor J, Heslin MJ, Bernreuter WK, Dempsey PJ, Pile NS, Rodgers WH. Reducing the Cost of Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: Impact of Ultrasound and Imaging-guided Biopsies on a Clinical Breast Practice. Cancer 91:1-9, 2001.
  20. Waston B Jr., Khan MA, Desmond RA, Bergman S. Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Black Americans with Hypertension-associated End-stage Renal Disease. Am J Kidney Diseases38:529-36, 2001.
  21. Hill AE , Jones WT and Hyatt RM: Parallel Automated Knowledge Acquisition of Case-Based Semantic Networks from Relational Databases. Journal of Systems Integration 10:375-394, 2001.
  22. Perfect JR, Cox GM, Lee JY , Kauffman CA, de Repentigny L, Chapman SW, Morrison VA, Pappas P, Hiemenz JW and Stevens DA and the NIAID-sponsored Mycoses Study Group. The Iimpact of Culture Isolation of Aspergillus: A Hospital-based Survey of Aspergillosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 33:1824-33, 2001.
  23. Ratner L, Lee J, Tang S, Redden D, Hamzeh F, Herndier B, Scadden D, Kaplan L, Ambinder R, Levine A, Harrington W, Grochow L, Flexner C, Tan B and Straus D for the AIDS Malignancy Consortium. Chemotherapy for HIV-associated non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Combination with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy. Journal of Clinical Oncology 19(8):2165-2170, 2001.
  24. Gibbons MD, Gunn CG, Niwas S, Sillers MJ: Cost-Analysis of Computer-Aided Endoscopic Sinus Surgery. American Journal of Rhinology 15:71-75, 2001.
  25. Smith HM, Kaminsky RG, Niwas S, Soto RJ, Jolly PE: Prevalence and Intensity of Infections of Ascaris Lumbricoides and Trichuris Trichiura and associated Socio-Demographic Variables in Four Rural Honduran Communities. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 96(3):303-314, April 2001.
  26. Allen SA, Musonda R, Trask S, Hahn BH, Weiss H, Mulenga J, Kasolo F, Vermund SH, Aldrovandi GM. Virologic and Immunologic Determinants of Heterosexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in Africa. AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses 17(10):901-10, 2001.
  27. Beenken SW, Grizzle WE, Crowe DR, Conner MG, Weiss HL , Sellers MT, Krontiras H, Urist MM, Bland KI. Molecular Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Progrnosis: Coexpression of c-erB-2 and p53. Annals of Surgery 233(5):630-638, 2001.
  28. Burford CR, Lubet RA, Steele VA, Eto I, Bandy M, Juliana MM, Weiss HL, Grizzle WE, Kelloff GJ, Grubbs CJ. Effects of Acute and Chronic Body Weight Gain Reductions in the Evaluation of Agents for Efficacy in Mammary Cancer Prevention. Oncology Reports 8:373-379, 2001.
  29. Castor D, Prabhakar P, Furlong C, Rao A, Brown A Camara B, Weiss H , Jolly PE. Antibiotic Resistant N. Gonorrhoea in Trinidad and Tobago. Cellular and Molecular Biology 47(6):987-995, 2001.
  30. Gibbons MD, Manne U, Carroll WR, Peters GE, Weiss HL, Grizzle WE. Molecular Differences in Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma and Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma the Major Salivary Glands. Laryngoscope 111:1373-1378, 2001.
  31. Manne U, Gary BD, Oelschlager DK, Weiss HL , Frost AR: Altered Subcellular Localization of Suppressin, a Novel Inhibitor of Cell-Cycle Entry, is an Independent Prognostic Factor in Colorectal Adenocarcinomas. Clinical Cancer Research 7:3495-3505, 2001.
  32. Piyathilake CJ, Frost AR, Bell WC, Oelschlager D, Weiss H, Johnning GL, Niveleau A, Heimburger DC, Grizzle WE. Altered Global Methylation of DNA: An Epigenetic Difference in Susceptibility for Lung Cancer is Associated with its Progression. Human Pathol 32:856-862, 2001.
  33. Weiss HL , Urban DA, Grizzle WE, Cronin KA, Freedman LS, Kelloff GJ, Lieberman R: Bayesian Monitoring of a Phase II Chemoprevention Trial in High Risk Cohorts for Prostate Cancer. Journal of Urology 57(4A):220-223, 2001.
  34. Yee LJ, Weiss HL, Langner RG, Herrera J, Kaslow RA, van Leeuwen DJ. Risk Factors for Acquistion of Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A case series and Potential Implications for Disease Surveillance. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2001.
  35. Bild DE, Folsom AR, Lowe LP, Sidney S, Kiefe C, Westfall AO, Zheng ZJ, Rumberger J. Prevalence and Correlates of Coronary Calcification in Black and White Young Adults: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 21(5):852-857, 2001.
  36. Lilly RZ, Carlton D, Barker J, Saddekni S, Hamrick K, Oser R, Westfall AO, Allon M. Predictors of Arteriovenous Graft Patency After Radiologic Intervention in Hemodialysis Patients. AmericanJournal of Kidney Diseases 37(5):945-953, 2001.