2022
Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes Among Black and White Patients With Cancer
Fu J, Reid S, French B, Hennessy C, Hwang C, Gatson N, Duma N, Mishra S, Nguyen R, Hawley J, Singh S, Chism D, Venepalli N, Warner J, Choueiri T, Schmidt A, Fecher L, Girard J, Bilen M, Ravindranathan D, Goyal S, Wise-Draper T, Park C, Painter C, McGlown S, de Lima Lopes G, Serrano O, Shah D, Halmos B, Verma A, Gartrell B, Goel S, Ohri N, Sica R, Thakkar A, Stockerl-Goldstein K, Butt O, Campian J, Fiala M, Monahan R, Zhou A, Patel J, Piper-Vallillo A, Bindal P, Thompson M, Bohachek P, Mundt D, Streckfuss M, Tadesse E, Lammers P, Panagiotou O, Egan P, Farmakiotis D, Khan H, Olszewski A, Loaiza-Bonilla A, Del Prete S, Angevine A, Bar M, Gulati A, Steve Lo K, Stratton J, Weinstein P, Caimi P, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Garcia J, Nakayama J, Gupta S, Pennell N, Ahluwalia M, Dawsey S, Lemmon C, Nizam A, Hoppenot C, Li A, Bakouny Z, Bouchard G, Busser F, Connors J, Curran C, Demetri G, Giordano A, Kelleher K, Nohria A, Shaw G, Van Allen E, Nuzzo P, Xu V, Zon R, Zhang T, Halabi S, Leighton J, Lyman G, Graber J, Grivas P, Khaki A, Loggers E, Lynch R, Nakasone E, Schweizer M, Tachiki L, Vinayak S, Wagner M, Yeh A, Huynh-Le M, Rosenstein L, Yu P, Clement J, Daher A, Dailey M, Elias R, Jayaraj A, Hsu E, Menendez A, Rathmann J, Gadgeel S, Hershman D, Accordino M, Bhutani D, Schwartz G, Reuben D, Mushtaq S, Bernicker E, Deeken J, Shafer D, Lewis M, Rhodes T, Gill D, Low C, Mashru S, Mansoor A, Zaren H, Smith S, Nagaraj G, Akhtari M, Lau E, Reeves M, Berg S, Elms D, Morgans A, Wehbe F, Altman J, Gurley M, Mulcahy M, Durbin E, Kulkarni A, Nelson H, Shah S, Rosovsky R, Reynolds K, Bardia A, Boland G, Gainor J, Zubiri L, Halfdanarson T, Bekaii-Saab T, Desai A, Xie Z, Mesa R, Bonnen M, Mahadevan D, Ramirez A, Salazar M, Shah P, Faller B, McKay R, Ajmera A, Cabal A, Shaya J, Weissmann L, Jani C, Knoble J, Glace M, Rink C, Stauffer K, Zacks R, Joshi M, Menon H, Rovito M, Griffiths E, Elshoury A, Jabbour S, Shah M, Bashir B, McNair C, Mahmood S, Mico V, Miller C, Rivera A, Flora D, Logan B, Kloecker G, Mandapakala C, Shah S, Cabebe E, Glover M, Jha A, Schapira L, Wu J, Subbiah S, Revankar S, Stover D, Addison D, Chen J, Gatti-Mays M, Jhawar S, Karivedu V, Lustberg M, Palmer J, Pillainayagam C, Wall S, Williams N, Wulff-Burchfield E, Kasi A, Edwin N, Smits M, Owenby S, Doroshow D, Galsky M, Wotman M, Zhu H, Fazio A, Riess J, Patel K, Rubinstein S, Wood W, Islam J, Kumar V, Ahmad S, Grover P, Gulati S, Kharofa J, Marcum M, Bowles D, Geiger C, Markham M, Bishnoi R, Russ A, Shah C, Acoba J, Rho Y, Feldman L, Hoskins K, Gantt G, Khan M, Pasquinelli M, Schwartz C, Vikas P, Friese C, Mavromatis B, Bijjula R, Zaman Q, Cheng A, Davis E, Duda S, Enriquez K, Gillaspie E, Hausrath D, Hsu C, Johnson D, Li X, Rini B, Slosky D, Shyr Y, Solorzano C, Sun T, Tucker M, Vega-Luna K, Wang L, Puc M, Carducci T, Goldsmith K, Van Loon S, Topaloglu U, Alimohamed S, Rice R, Cabalona W, Pilar C, Peddi P, Rosen L, McCollough B, Hafez N, Herbst R, LoRusso P, Masters T, Stratton C, Koshkin V, Kwon D, Peters S. Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes Among Black and White Patients With Cancer. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e224304. PMID: 35344045, PMCID: PMC8961318, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.4304.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBlack patientsWhite patientsCOVID-19 outcomesElectronic health recordsCOVID-19Intensive care unit admissionNon-Hispanic white patientsWorse COVID-19 severityWorse COVID-19 outcomesNon-Hispanic Black individualsRacial disparitiesCare unit admissionRetrospective cohort studyCOVID-19 presentationUnique clinical courseCOVID-19 severityPatients' electronic health recordsCOVID-19 diagnosisCause deathUnit admissionClinical characteristicsCohort studyClinical courseMechanical ventilationClinical complications
2021
Clinical characteristics and outcomes for 7,995 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection
McPadden J, Warner F, Young HP, Hurley NC, Pulk RA, Singh A, Durant TJS, Gong G, Desai N, Haimovich A, Taylor RA, Gunel M, Dela Cruz CS, Farhadian SF, Siner J, Villanueva M, Churchwell K, Hsiao A, Torre CJ, Velazquez EJ, Herbst RS, Iwasaki A, Ko AI, Mortazavi BJ, Krumholz HM, Schulz WL. Clinical characteristics and outcomes for 7,995 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. PLOS ONE 2021, 16: e0243291. PMID: 33788846, PMCID: PMC8011821, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243291.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2 infectionYale New Haven HealthSARS-CoV-2Hospital mortalityRisk of admissionMale sexRisk factorsSARS-CoV-2 testingInvasive mechanical ventilationSevere acute respiratory syndrome virusBurden of diseaseRT-PCR testingAcademic health systemDiverse patient populationsRespiratory syndrome virusEthnic groupsAdult patientsClinical characteristicsDischarge dispositionRespiratory supportPrimary outcomeTreatment guidelinesMechanical ventilationRetrospective studyPatient population
2017
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to monitor treatment response and progression in patients treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and immunotherapy for EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Henick B, Goldberg S, Narayan A, Rossi C, Rodney S, Kole A, Politi K, Gettinger S, Herbst R, Patel A. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to monitor treatment response and progression in patients treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and immunotherapy for EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2017, 35: e20652-e20652. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2017.35.15_suppl.e20652.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNon-small cell lung cancerTyrosine kinase inhibitorsEGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancerCtDNA levelsDisease progressionRadiographic progressionTKI therapyEGFR mutationsEGFR mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancerMutation-positive non-small cell lung cancerT790MAnti-PD-1 monotherapyEGFR mutation-positive patientsPD-1 inhibitor monotherapyEGFR-mutant NSCLC patientsSubset of patientsCell lung cancerMutation-positive patientsAssessment of responseLow ctDNA levelsChart reviewClinical characteristicsDurable responsesInhibitor monotherapyNSCLC patients
2014
119IN Novel Molecular Studies to Inform the Conduct of Oncology Clinical Trials: from Battle to Master Protocols
Herbst R. 119IN Novel Molecular Studies to Inform the Conduct of Oncology Clinical Trials: from Battle to Master Protocols. Annals Of Oncology 2014, 25: iv41. DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdu317.1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLung cancer patientsCancer patientsSquamous cell lung cancer patientsMaster protocolsMulticenter phase 2 trialCell lung cancer patientsNovel molecular studiesPhase 2 trialScreen failure rateOncology clinical trialsCause of deathEffective treatment regimensIdentification of therapiesClinical trial researchIndividual patient's cancerSystemic chemotherapyClinical characteristicsMetastatic diseaseMost patientsPerformance statusTreatment regimensMultiple therapiesClinical trialsAdaptive randomization designPatient's cancer