Chad Rusthoven, MD

Professional Titles

• Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology

Recognitions

• Faculty inductee to the Gold Humanism Honor Society in recognition compassionate patient care, Gold Humanism Honor Society (2018)
• Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (2009)
• Merck Academic Excellence Award, University of South Florida College of Medicine (2010)
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, University of Florida (2005)
• National Merit Scholar, National Merit Scholarship Corporation (2000)
• American Brachytherapy Society Clinical Fellowship Award, American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) (2014)
• Outstanding performance in medical internship, letter of commendation, Georgetown University/Washington Hospital Center (2011)
• Dr. Charles A. Coltman, Jr., Fellowship Award, The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research (2020)

Publications

• Senan S, Rusthoven CG, Slotman BJ, Siva S. Progress in Radiotherapy for Regional and Oligometastatic Disease in 2017. J Thorac Oncol. 2018 Feb 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29452269
• Rusthoven CG, Jones BL, Kavanagh BD. Medical operability and inoperability drive survival in retrospective analyses comparing surgery and SBRT for early-stage lung cancer. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2018 Feb;155(2):810-811. PubMed PMID: 29415393
• Nieder C, Gaspar LE, Ruysscher D, Guckenberger M, Mehta MP, Rusthoven CG, Sahgal A, Gkika E. Repeat reirradiation of the spinal cord: multi-national expert treatment recommendations. Strahlenther Onkol. 2018 Jan 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29362835
• Stokes WA, Bronsert MR, Meguid RA, Blum MG, Jones BL, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Louie AV, Palma DA, Senan S, Gaspar LE, Kavanagh BD, Rusthoven CG. Post-Treatment Mortality After Surgery and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jan 18;:JCO2017756536. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29346041
• Robin TP, Camidge DR, Stuhr K, Nath SK, Breeze RE, Pacheco JM, Liu AK, Gaspar LE, Purcell WT, Doebele RC, Kavanagh BD, Rusthoven CG. Excellent Outcomes with Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Metastases in ALK and EGFR Driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2017 Dec 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29269007
• Sumner WA, Amini A, Hankinson TC, Foreman NK, Gaspar LE, Kavanagh BD, Karam SD, Rusthoven CG, Liu AK. Survival benefit of postoperative radiation in papillary meningioma: Analysis of the National Cancer Data Base. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother. 2017 Nov-Dec;22(6):495-501. PubMed PMID: 29123457
• Nabors LB, Portnow J, Ammirati M, Baehring J, Brem H, Butowski N, Fenstermaker RA, Forsyth P, Hattangadi-Gluth J, Holdhoff M, Howard S, Junck L, Kaley T, Kumthekar P, Loeffler JS, Moots PL, Mrugala MM, Nagpal S, Pandey M, Parney I, Peters K, Puduvalli VK, Ragsdale J 3rd, Rockhill J, Rogers L, Rusthoven C, Shonka N, Shrieve DC, Sills AK Jr, Swinnen LJ, Tsien C, Weiss S, Wen PY, Willmarth N, Bergman MA, Engh A. NCCN Guidelines Insights: Central Nervous System Cancers, Version 1.2017. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2017 Nov;15(11):1331-1345. PubMed PMID: 29118226
• Stokes WA, Binder DC, Jones BL, Oweida AJ, Liu AK, Rusthoven CG, Karam SD. Impact of immunotherapy among patients with melanoma brain metastases managed with radiotherapy. J Neuroimmunol. 2017 Dec 15;313:118-122. PubMed PMID: 29153603
• Schneider BJ, Daly ME, Kennedy EB, Antonoff MB, Broderick S, Feldman J, Jolly S, Meyers B, Rocco G, Rusthoven C, Slotman BJ, Sterman DH, Stiles BM. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Endorsement of the American Society for Radiation Oncology Evidence-Based Guideline. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Nov 6;:JCO2017749671. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29106810
• Stumpf PK, Amini A, Jones BL, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Lieu CH, Schefter TE, Goodman KA, Rusthoven CG. Reply to Tumor localization may change the type of adjuvant treatment in gastric cancer. Cancer. 2017 Dec 1;123(23):4737-4738. PubMed PMID: 28981979
• Rusthoven CG, Kavanagh BD. Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation (PCI) versus Active MRI Surveillance for Small Cell Lung Cancer: The Case for Equipoise. J Thorac Oncol. 2017 Dec;12(12):1746-1754. PubMed PMID: 28882584
• Trifiletti DM, Sheehan JP, Grover S, Dutta SW, Rusthoven CG, Kavanagh BD, Sahgal A, Showalter TN. National trends in radiotherapy for brain metastases at time of diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer. J Clin Neurosci. 2017 Nov;45:48-53. PubMed PMID: 28866073
• Koshy M, Sher DJ, Spiotto M, Husain Z, Engelhard H, Slavin K, Nicholas MK, Weichselbaum RR, Rusthoven C. Association between hospital volume and receipt of treatment and survival in patients with glioblastoma. J Neurooncol. 2017 Dec;135(3):529-534. PubMed PMID: 28836140
• Stokes WA, Amini A, Jackson MW, Plimpton SR, Kounalakis N, Kabos P, Rabinovitch RA, Rusthoven CG, Fisher CM. Patterns of Fractionation and Boost Usage in Adjuvant External Beam Radiotherapy for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ in the United States. Clin Breast Cancer. 2017 Jun 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28797765
• Rusthoven CG, Kavanagh BD. Prophylactic cranial irradiation in small-cell lung cancer. Lancet Oncol. 2017 Jul;18(7):e365. PubMed PMID: 28677568
• Koshy M, Malik R, Spiotto M, Mahmood U, Rusthoven CG, Sher DJ. Association between intensity modulated radiotherapy and survival in patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy. Lung Cancer. 2017 Jun;108:222-227. PubMed PMID: 28625640
• Rusthoven CG, Koshy M, Sher DJ. Radiation plus Temozolomide in Patients with Glioblastoma. N Engl J Med. 2017 Jun 1;376(22):2195-2197. PubMed PMID: 28564571
• Stumpf PK, Amini A, Jones BL, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Lieu CH, Schefter TE, Goodman KA, Rusthoven CG. Adjuvant radiotherapy improves overall survival in patients with resected gastric adenocarcinoma: A National Cancer Data Base analysis. Cancer. 2017 Sep 1;123(17):3402-3409. PubMed PMID: 28513823
• Waxweiler T, Schubert L, Diot Q, Faught A, Stuhr K, Castillo R, Castillo E, Guerrero T, Rusthoven C, Gaspar L, Kavanagh B, Miften M, Vinogradskiy Y. A complete 4DCT-ventilation functional avoidance virtual trial: Developing strategies for prospective clinical trials. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2017 May;18(3):144-152. PubMed PMID: 28436107
• Rusthoven CG, Lanning RM, Jones BL, Amini A, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Bowles DW, McDermott JD, Jimeno A, Karam SD. Metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Patterns of care and survival for patients receiving chemotherapy with and without local radiotherapy. Radiother Oncol. 2017 Jul;124(1):139-146. PubMed PMID: 28433411
• Rusthoven CG, Palma DA, Senan S, Kavanagh BD. The Head Start Effect: Will Acute and Delayed Postoperative Mortality Lead to Improved Survival with Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Operable Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer?. J Clin Oncol. 2017 May 20;35(15):1749-1751. PubMed PMID: 28221860
• Sher DJ, Rusthoven CG, Khan SA, Fidler MJ, Zhu H, Koshy M. National patterns of care and predictors of neoadjuvant and concurrent chemotherapy use with definitive radiotherapy in the treatment of patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer. 2017 Jan 1;123(2):273-282. PubMed PMID: 27649421
• Rusthoven CG, Jones BL, Kavanagh BD, Pugh TJ. Reply to J.B. Aragon-Ching and D. Dalela et al. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Mar 10;35(8):916-917. PubMed PMID: 27937090
• Rusthoven CG, Doebele RC. Reply to J.K. Molitoris et al. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Mar;35(7):810-811. PubMed PMID: 28029305
• Vinogradskiy Y, Jackson M, Schubert L, Jones B, Castillo R, Castillo E, Guerrero T, Mitchell J, Rusthoven C, Miften M, Kavanagh B. Assessing the use of 4DCT-ventilation in pre-operative surgical lung cancer evaluation. Med Phys. 2017 Jan;44(1):200-208. PubMed PMID: 28102961
• Jackson MW, Palma DA, Camidge DR, Jones BL, Robin TP, Sher DJ, Koshy M, Kavanagh BD, Gaspar LE, Rusthoven CG. The Impact of Postoperative Radiotherapy for Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma. J Thorac Oncol. 2017 Apr;12(4):734-744. PubMed PMID: 28126540
• Pan HY, Walker GV, Grant SR, Allen PK, Jiang J, Guadagnolo BA, Smith BD, Koshy M, Rusthoven CG, Mahmood U. Insurance Status and Racial Disparities in Cancer-Specific Mortality in the United States: A Population-Based Analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Jun;26(6):869-875. PubMed PMID: 28183825
• Haque W, Verma V, Butler EB, Teh BS, Rusthoven CG. Post-treatment mortality after definitive chemoradiotherapy versus trimodality therapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer. epub ahead of print 2018. PubMed PMID: 30642556
• Robin TP, Rusthoven CG. Strategies to Preserve Cognition in Patients With Brain Metastases: A Review. Front Oncol. 2018;8:415. PubMed PMID: 30356657
• Vinogradskiy Y, Rusthoven CG, Schubert L, Jones B, Faught A, Castillo R, Castillo E, Gaspar LE, Kwak J, Waxweiler T, Dougherty M, Gao D, Stevens C, Miften M, Kavanagh B, Guerrero T, Grills I. Interim Analysis of a Two-Institution, Prospective Clinical Trial of 4DCT-Ventilation-based Functional Avoidance Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Nov 15;102(4):1357-1365. PubMed PMID: 30353873
• Rusthoven CG. Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: The Costs Outweigh the Benefits. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Oct 22;:JCO1800732. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30346898
• Kalemkerian GP, Loo BW Jr, Akerley W, Attia A, Bassetti M, Boumber Y, Decker R, Dobelbower MC, Dowlati A, Downey RJ, Florsheim C, Ganti AKP, Grecula JC, Gubens MA, Hann CL, Hayman JA, Heist RS, Koczywas M, Merritt RE, Mohindra N, Molina J, Moran CA, Morgensztern D, Pokharel S, Portnoy DC, Rhodes D, Rusthoven C, Santana-Davila R, Williams CC Jr, Hoffmann KG, Hughes M. NCCN Guidelines Insights: Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 2.2018. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2018 Oct;16(10):1171-1182. PubMed PMID: 30323087
• Amini A, Robin TP, Stumpf PK, Rusthoven C, Schefter TE, Shinde A, Chen YJ, Glaser SM, Corr BR, Fisher CM. Rising Rates of Upfront Surgery in Early Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: What Factors Predict for This Treatment Paradigm?. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2018 Oct;28(8):1560-1568. PubMed PMID: 30247249
• Cushman TR, Haque W, Menon H, Rusthoven CG, Butler EB, Teh BS, Verma V. Postoperative chemoradiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for elderly cervical cancer patients with positive margins, lymph nodes, or parametrial invasion. J Gynecol Oncol. 2018 Nov;29(6):e97. PubMed PMID: 30207105
• Verma V, Rusthoven CG. The fundamental problem of confounding by medical operability in retrospective comparisons of surgery versus stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage lung cancer. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Jul;10(Suppl 18):S2176-S2180. PubMed PMID: 30123553
• Stokes WA, Rusthoven CG. Surgery vs. SBRT in retrospective analyses: confounding by operability is the elephant in the room. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Jun;10(Suppl 17):S2007-S2010. PubMed PMID: 30023105
• Robin TP, Breeze RE, Smith DE, Rusthoven CG, Lewis KD, Gonzalez R, Brill A, Saiki R, Stuhr K, Gaspar LE, Karam SD, Raben D, Kavanagh BD, Nath SK, Liu AK. Immune checkpoint inhibitors and radiosurgery for newly diagnosed melanoma brain metastases. J Neurooncol. 2018 Oct;140(1):55-62. PubMed PMID: 29909499
• Amini A, Robin TP, Rusthoven CG, Schefter TE, Akhavan D, Chen YJ, Glaser SM, Corr BR, Ashing KT, Fisher CM. Disparities Predict for Higher Rates of Cut-through Hysterectomies in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 2019 Jan;42(1):21-26. PubMed PMID: 29889138
• Stokes WA, Rusthoven CG. Reply to C. Cao et al. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Aug 10;36(23):2456-2457. PubMed PMID: 29863978
• Robin TP, Jones BL, Amini A, Koshy M, Gaspar LE, Liu AK, Nath SK, Kavanagh BD, Camidge DR, Rusthoven CG. Radiosurgery alone is associated with favorable outcomes for brain metastases from small-cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer. 2018 Jun;120:88-90. PubMed PMID: 29748022
• Verma V, Sleightholm RL, Rusthoven CG, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Grover S, Simone CB 2nd. Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: National Practice Patterns, Outcomes, and Predictors of Survival. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018 Jul;25(7):2018-2026. PubMed PMID: 29721724
• Faught AM, Olsen L, Schubert L, Rusthoven C, Castillo E, Castillo R, Zhang J, Guerrero T, Miften M, Vinogradskiy Y. Functional-guided radiotherapy using knowledge-based planning. Radiother Oncol. 2018 Dec;129(3):494-498. PubMed PMID: 29628292
• Ung TH, Ney DE, Damek D, Rusthoven CG, Youssef AS, Lillehei KO, Ormond DR. The Neurologic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (NANO) Scale as an Assessment Tool for Survival in Patients With Primary Glioblastoma. Neurosurgery. 2018 Mar 30. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29618103
• Robin TP, Sannes TS, Spring Kong FM, Mornex F, Hirsch FR, Rusthoven CG, Gaspar LE. Physician Bias in Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation Decision Making-An Opportunity for a Patient Decision Aid. Clin Lung Cancer. 2018 Nov;19(6):476-483. PubMed PMID: 29544717
• Senan S, Rusthoven CG, Slotman BJ, Siva S. Progress in Radiotherapy for Regional and Oligometastatic Disease in 2017. J Thorac Oncol. 2018 Apr;13(4):488-496. PubMed PMID: 29452269
• Rusthoven CG, Jones BL, Kavanagh BD. Medical operability and inoperability drive survival in retrospective analyses comparing surgery and SBRT for early-stage lung cancer. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2018 Feb;155(2):810-811. PubMed PMID: 29415393
• Nieder C, Gaspar LE, Ruysscher D, Guckenberger M, Mehta MP, Rusthoven CG, Sahgal A, Gkika E. Repeat reirradiation of the spinal cord: multi-national expert treatment recommendations. Strahlenther Onkol. 2018 May;194(5):365-374. PubMed PMID: 29362835
• Stokes WA, Bronsert MR, Meguid RA, Blum MG, Jones BL, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Louie AV, Palma DA, Senan S, Gaspar LE, Kavanagh BD, Rusthoven CG. Post-Treatment Mortality After Surgery and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Mar 1;36(7):642-651. PubMed PMID: 29346041
• Robin TP, Camidge DR, Stuhr K, Nath SK, Breeze RE, Pacheco JM, Liu AK, Gaspar LE, Purcell WT, Doebele RC, Kavanagh BD, Rusthoven CG. Excellent Outcomes with Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Metastases in ALK and EGFR Driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2018 May;13(5):715-720. PubMed PMID: 29269007
• Schneider BJ, Daly ME, Kennedy EB, Antonoff MB, Broderick S, Feldman J, Jolly S, Meyers B, Rocco G, Rusthoven C, Slotman BJ, Sterman DH, Stiles BM. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Endorsement of the American Society for Radiation Oncology Evidence-Based Guideline. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Mar 1;36(7):710-719. PubMed PMID: 29106810
• Stokes WA, Amini A, Jackson MW, Plimpton SR, Kounalakis N, Kabos P, Rabinovitch RA, Rusthoven CG, Fisher CM. Patterns of Fractionation and Boost Usage in Adjuvant External Beam Radiotherapy for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ in the United States. Clin Breast Cancer. 2018 Jun;18(3):220-228. PubMed PMID: 28797765
• Amini A, Yeh N, Jones BL, Bedrick E, Vinogradskiy Y, Rusthoven CG, Amini A, Purcell WT, Karam SD, Kavanagh BD, Guntupalli SR, Fisher CM. Perioperative Mortality in Nonelderly Adult Patients With Cancer: A Population-based Study Evaluating Health Care Disparities in the United States According to Insurance Status. Am J Clin Oncol. 2018 May;41(5):476-484. PubMed PMID: 27281264
• Vinogradskiy Y, Diot Q, Jones B, Castillo R, Castillo E, Kwak J, Bowles D, Grills I, Myziuk N, Guerrero T, Stevens C, Schefter T, Gaspar LE, Kavanagh B, Miften M, Rusthoven C. Evaluating Positron Emission Tomography-Based Functional Imaging Changes in the Heart After Chemo-Radiation for Patients With Lung Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2020 Jan 23. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31983558
• Amini A, Rusthoven CG. Thymoma: does tumor size matter?. J Thorac Dis. 2019 Sep;11(Suppl 15):S2005-S2007. PubMed PMID: 31632811
• Foster CC, Rusthoven CG, Sher DJ, Feldman L, Pasquinelli M, Spiotto MT, Koshy M. Corrigendum to "Adjuvant chemotherapy following stereotactic body radiotherapy for early stage non-small-cell lung cancer is associated with lower overall survival: A National Cancer Database Analysis" [Lung Cancer, Volume 130 (April) (2019) 162-168]. Lung Cancer. 2019 Jun;132:159. PubMed PMID: 31031052
• Vinogradskiy Y, Rusthoven CG, Schubert L, Jones B, Faught A, Castillo R, Castillo E, Gaspar LE, Kwak J, Waxweiler T, Dougherty M, Gao D, Stevens C, Miften M, Kavanagh B, Guerrero T, Grills I. Interim Analysis of a Two-Institution, Prospective Clinical Trial of 4DCT-Ventilation-based Functional Avoidance Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Nov 15;102(4):1357-1365. PubMed PMID: 30353873
• Stokes WA, Rusthoven CG. Surgery vs. SBRT in retrospective analyses: confounding by operability is the elephant in the room. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Jun;10(Suppl 17):S2007-S2010. PubMed PMID: 30023105
• Ladbury CJ, Rusthoven CG, Camidge DR, Kavanagh BD, Nath SK. Impact of Radiation Dose to the Host Immune System on Tumor Control and Survival for Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Definitive Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2019 Oct 1;105(2):346-355. PubMed PMID: 31175902
• Verma V, Rusthoven CG. The fundamental problem of confounding by medical operability in retrospective comparisons of surgery versus stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage lung cancer. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Jul;10(Suppl 18):S2176-S2180. PubMed PMID: 30123553
• Amini A, Verma V, Glaser SM, Shinde A, Sampath S, Stokes WA, Rusthoven CG, Massarelli E, Salgia R, Gaspar LE, Liu AK. Early mortality of stage IV non-small cell lung cancer in the United States. Acta Oncol. 2019 Aug;58(8):1095-1101. PubMed PMID: 30958075
• Stokes WA, Rusthoven CG. Reply to C. Cao et al. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Aug 10;36(23):2456-2457. PubMed PMID: 29863978
• Stumpf PK, Cittelly DM, Robin TP, Carlson JA, Stuhr KA, Contreras-Zarate MJ, Lai S, Ormond DR, Rusthoven CG, Gaspar LE, Rabinovitch R, Kavanagh BD, Liu A, Diamond JR, Kabos P, Fisher CM. Combination of Trastuzumab Emtansine and Stereotactic Radiosurgery Results in High Rates of Clinically Significant Radionecrosis and Dysregulation of Aquaporin-4. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Jul 1;25(13):3946-3953. PubMed PMID: 30940654
• Robin TP, Rusthoven CG. Strategies to Preserve Cognition in Patients With Brain Metastases: A Review. Front Oncol. 2018;8:415. PubMed PMID: 30356657
• Amini A, DeWitt PE, Vinogradskiy Y, Rusthoven CG, Altunbas C, Schefter TE, Fisher CM. Should we customize PTV expansions for BMI? Daily cone beam computerized tomography to assess organ motion in postoperative endometrial and cervical cancer patients. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother. 2016 May-Jun;21(3):195-200. PubMed PMID: 27601950
• Jackson MW, Rusthoven CG, Jones BL, Kamdar M, Rabinovitch R. Improved survival with combined modality therapy in the modern era for primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma. Am J Hematol. 2016 May;91(5):476-80. PubMed PMID: 26852276
• Rusthoven CG. Small Cell Lung Cancer: PCI Uncertainty and Emerging Radiosurgery Interest. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2019 Apr 1;103(5):1034-1035. PubMed PMID: 30900556
• Amini A, Jones BL, Jackson MW, Rusthoven CG, Maroni P, Kavanagh BD, Raben D. Survival outcomes of combined external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy vs. brachytherapy alone for intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients using the National Cancer Data Base. Brachytherapy. 2016 Mar-Apr;15(2):136-46. PubMed PMID: 26825856
• Foster CC, Rusthoven CG, Sher DJ, Feldman L, Pasquinelli M, Spiotto MT, Koshy M. Adjuvant chemotherapy following stereotactic body radiotherapy for early stage non-small-cell lung cancer is associated with lower overall: A National Cancer Database Analysis. Lung Cancer. 2019 Apr;130:162-168. PubMed PMID: 30885339
• Jackson MW, Amini A, Jones BL, Rusthoven CG, Schefter TE, Goodman KA. Treatment Selection and Survival Outcomes With and Without Radiation for Unresectable, Localized Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma. Cancer J. 2016 Jul-Aug;22(4):237-42. PubMed PMID: 27441741
• Vinogradskiy Y, Schubert L, Diot Q, Waxweiller T, Koo P, Castillo R, Castillo E, Guerrero T, Rusthoven C, Gaspar L, Kavanagh B, Miften M. Regional Lung Function Profiles of Stage I and III Lung Cancer Patients: An Evaluation for Functional Avoidance Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Jul 15;95(4):1273-80. PubMed PMID: 27354134
• Rusthoven CG, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Ney DE, Gaspar LE, Jones BL, Karam SD, Amini A, Ormond DR, Youssef AS, Kavanagh BD. Combined-Modality Therapy With Radiation and Chemotherapy for Elderly Patients With Glioblastoma in the Temozolomide Era: A National Cancer Database Analysis. JAMA Neurol. 2016 Jul 1;73(7):821-8. PubMed PMID: 27214765
• Jackson MW, Rusthoven CG, Jones BL, Kamdar M, Rabinovitch R. Improved Survival With Radiation Therapy in Stage I-II Primary Mediastinal B Cell Lymphoma: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database Analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Jan 1;94(1):126-132. PubMed PMID: 26547384
• Nieder C, Guckenberger M, Gaspar LE, Rusthoven CG, De Ruysscher D, Sahgal A, Nguyen T, Grosu AL, Mehta MP. Management of patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer and adverse prognostic features: multi-national radiation treatment recommendations are heterogeneous. Radiat Oncol. 2019 Feb 15;14(1):33. PubMed PMID: 30770745
• Foster CC, Sher DJ, Rusthoven CG, Verma V, Spiotto MT, Weichselbaum RR, Koshy M. Overall survival according to immunotherapy and radiation treatment for metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer: a National Cancer Database analysis. Radiat Oncol. 2019 Jan 28;14(1):18. PubMed PMID: 30691492
• Haque W, Verma V, Butler EB, Teh BS, Rusthoven CG. Post-treatment mortality after definitive chemoradiotherapy versus trimodality therapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer. 2019 Jan;127:76-83. PubMed PMID: 30642556
• Amini A, Kavanagh BD, Rusthoven CG. Improved survival with the addition of radiotherapy to androgen deprivation: questions answered and a review of current controversies in radiotherapy for non-metastatic prostate cancer. Ann Transl Med. 2016 Jan;4(1):14. PubMed PMID: 26855950
• Amini A, Rusthoven CG, Waxweiler TV, Jones BL, Fisher CM, Karam SD, Raben D. Association of health insurance with outcomes in adults ages 18 to 64 years with melanoma in the United States. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2016 Feb;74(2):309-16. PubMed PMID: 26670715
• Bansal P, Rusthoven C, Boumber Y, Gan GN. The role of local ablative therapy in oligometastatic non-small-cell lung cancer: hype or hope. Future Oncol. 2016 Dec;12(23):2713-2727. PubMed PMID: 27467543
• Rusthoven CG, Jones BL, Flaig TW, Crawford ED, Koshy M, Sher DJ, Mahmood U, Chen RC, Chapin BF, Kavanagh BD, Pugh TJ. Improved Survival With Prostate Radiation in Addition to Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Men With Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Prostate Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Aug 20;34(24):2835-42. PubMed PMID: 27325855
• Pacheco JM, Gao D, Smith D, Purcell T, Hancock M, Bunn P, Robin T, Liu A, Karam S, Gaspar L, Kavanagh B, Rusthoven C, Aisner D, Doebele R, Camidge DR. Natural History and Factors Associated with Overall Survival in Stage IV ALK-Rearranged Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Apr;14(4):691-700. PubMed PMID: 30599201
• Rusthoven CG, Doebele RC. Management of Brain Metastases in ALK-Positive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Aug 20;34(24):2814-9. PubMed PMID: 27298405
• Amini A, Rusthoven CG, Jones BL, Armstrong H, Raben D, Kavanagh BD. Survival outcomes of radiotherapy with or without androgen-deprivation therapy for patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer using the National Cancer Data Base. Urol Oncol. 2016 Apr;34(4):165.e1-9. PubMed PMID: 26699831
• Rusthoven CG, Yeh N, Gaspar LE. Radiation Therapy for Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Theory and Practice. Cancer J. 2015 Sep-Oct;21(5):404-12. PubMed PMID: 26389766
• Amini A, Robin TP, Rusthoven CG, Schefter TE, Akhavan D, Chen YJ, Glaser SM, Corr BR, Ashing KT, Fisher CM. Disparities Predict for Higher Rates of Cut-through Hysterectomies in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 2019 Jan;42(1):21-26. PubMed PMID: 29889138
• Koshy M, Malik R, Mahmood U, Rusthoven CG, Sher DJ. Comparative effectiveness of aggressive thoracic radiation therapy and concurrent chemoradiation therapy in metastatic lung cancer. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2015 Nov-Dec;5(6):374-82. PubMed PMID: 26412340
• Ung TH, Ney DE, Damek D, Rusthoven CG, Youssef AS, Lillehei KO, Ormond DR. The Neurologic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (NANO) Scale as an Assessment Tool for Survival in Patients With Primary Glioblastoma. Neurosurgery. 2019 Mar 1;84(3):687-695. PubMed PMID: 29618103
• Rusthoven CG, Kavanagh BD. Considerations for observational research: in regard to Jagsi et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2015 Mar 1;91(3):679-80. PubMed PMID: 25680608
• Rusthoven CG, Carlson JA, Kavanagh BD. External Validation of the Benefit of Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Pathologic N1M0 Prostate Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Jun 10;33(17):1987-8. PubMed PMID: 25847937
• Waxweiler TV, Rusthoven CG, Proper MS, Cost CR, Cost NG, Donaldson N, Garrington T, Greffe BS, Heare T, Macy ME, Liu AK. Non-Rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcomas in Children: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Analysis Validating COG Risk Stratifications. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2015 Jun 1;92(2):339-48. PubMed PMID: 25968827
• Rusthoven CG, Kavanagh BD, Karam SD. Improved survival with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) over lobectomy for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): addressing the fallout of disruptive randomized data. Ann Transl Med. 2015 Jul;3(11):149. PubMed PMID: 26244136
• Rusthoven CG, Waxweiler TV, DeWitt PE, Flaig TW, Raben D, Kavanagh BD. Gleason stratifications prognostic for survival in men receiving definitive external beam radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer. Urol Oncol. 2015 Feb;33(2):71.e11-9. PubMed PMID: 25151595
• Amini A, Jones BL, Yeh N, Rusthoven CG, Armstrong H, Kavanagh BD. Survival Outcomes of Whole-Pelvic Versus Prostate-Only Radiation Therapy for High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients With Use of the National Cancer Data Base. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2015 Dec 1;93(5):1052-63. PubMed PMID: 26581142
• Rusthoven CG, Carlson JA, Waxweiler TV, Dally MJ, Barón AE, Yeh N, Gaspar LE, Liu AK, Ney DE, Damek DM, Lillehei KO, Kavanagh BD. The impact of adjuvant radiation therapy for high-grade gliomas by histology in the United States population. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014 Nov 15;90(4):894-902. PubMed PMID: 25585784
• Carlson JA, Rusthoven C, DeWitt PE, Davidson SA, Schefter TE, Fisher CM. Are we appropriately selecting therapy for patients with cervical cancer? Longitudinal patterns-of-care analysis for stage IB-IIB cervical cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014 Nov 15;90(4):786-93. PubMed PMID: 25585782
• Rusthoven CG, Carlson JA, Waxweiler TV, Yeh N, Raben D, Flaig TW, Kavanagh BD. The prognostic significance of Gleason scores in metastatic prostate cancer. Urol Oncol. 2014 Jul;32(5):707-13. PubMed PMID: 24629494
• Rusthoven CG, Schefter TE. Rationale for ablation of oligometastatic disease and the role of stereotactic body radiation therapy for hepatic metastases. Hepat Oncol. 2014 Jan;1(1):81-94. PubMed PMID: 30190943
• Carlson JA, Nooruddin Z, Rusthoven C, Elias A, Borges VF, Diamond JR, Kavanagh B, Kabos P. Trastuzumab emtansine and stereotactic radiosurgery: an unexpected increase in clinically significant brain edema. Neuro Oncol. 2014 Jul;16(7):1006-9. PubMed PMID: 24497407
• Rusthoven CG, Liu AK, Bui MM, Schefter TE, Elias AD, Lu X, Gonzalez RJ. Sarcomas of the aorta: a systematic review and pooled analysis of published reports. Ann Vasc Surg. 2014 Feb;28(2):515-25. PubMed PMID: 24485779
• Rusthoven CG, Camidge DR, Robin TP, Brown PD. Radiosurgery for Small-Cell Brain Metastases: Challenging the Last Bastion of Preferential Whole-Brain Radiotherapy Delivery. J Clin Oncol. 2020 Aug 10;:JCO2001823. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32776807
• Rusthoven CG, Carlson JA, Waxweiler TV, Raben D, Dewitt PE, Crawford ED, Maroni PD, Kavanagh BD. The impact of definitive local therapy for lymph node-positive prostate cancer: a population-based study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014 Apr 1;88(5):1064-73. PubMed PMID: 24661660
• Jackson MW, Rusthoven CG, Fisher CM, Schefter TE. Clinical potential of bevacizumab in the treatment of metastatic and locally advanced cervical cancer: current evidence. Onco Targets Ther. 2014;7:751-9. PubMed PMID: 24876784
• Harris EE, Latifi K, Rusthoven C, Javedan K, Forster K. Assessment of organ motion in postoperative endometrial and cervical cancer patients treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Nov 15;81(4):e645-50. PubMed PMID: 21640508
• Rusthoven C, Shames ML, Bui MM, Gonzalez RJ. High-grade undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma of the aortic arch: a case of endovascular therapy for embolic prophylaxis and review of the literature. Vasc Endovascular Surg. 2010 Jul;44(5):385-91. PubMed PMID: 20538733
• Verma V, Robinson CG, Rusthoven CG. Hippocampal-Sparing Radiotherapy for Patients With Glioblastoma and Grade II-III Gliomas. JAMA Oncol. 2020 May 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32407497
• Rusthoven CG, Yamamoto M, Bernhardt D, Smith DE, Gao D, Serizawa T, Yomo S, Aiyama H, Higuchi Y, Shuto T, Akabane A, Sato Y, Niranjan A, Faramand AM, Lunsford LD, McInerney J, Tuanquin LC, Zacharia BE, Chiang V, Singh C, Yu JB, Braunstein S, Mathieu D, Touchette CJ, Lee CC, Yang HC, Aizer AA, Cagney DN, Chan MD, Kondziolka D, Bernstein K, Silverman JS, Grills IS, Siddiqui ZA, Yuan JC, Sheehan JP, Cordeiro D, Nosaki K, Seto T, Deibert CP, Verma V, Day S, Halasz LM, Warnick RE, Trifiletti DM, Palmer JD, Attia A, Li B, Cifarelli CP, Brown PD, Vargo JA, Combs S, Kessel KA, Rieken S, Patel S, Guckenberger M, Andratschke N, Kavanagh BD, Robin TP. Evaluation of First-line Radiosurgery vs Whole-Brain Radiotherapy for Small Cell Lung Cancer Brain Metastases: The FIRE-SCLC Cohort Study. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Jun 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32496550
• Pereira I, Slotman B, Rusthoven CG, Katz MS, Simcock R, Saeed H. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) - A new normal for small cell lung cancer?. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol. 2020 Nov;25:10-15. PubMed PMID: 33294642
• Robin TP, Rusthoven CG. Radiosurgery for small-cell lung cancer brain metastases: a review. J Thorac Dis. 2020 Oct;12(10):6234-6239. PubMed PMID: 33209462
• Taylor JM, Rusthoven CG, Moghanaki D. Prophylactic cranial irradiation or MRI surveillance for extensive stage small cell lung cancer. J Thorac Dis. 2020 Oct;12(10):6225-6233. PubMed PMID: 33209461
• Rusthoven CG, Brown PD, Robin TP. Deferring a Change in the Standard of Care for Small Cell Lung Cancer Brain Metastases-Reply. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Nov 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33180104
• Nabors LB, Portnow J, Ahluwalia M, Baehring J, Brem H, Brem S, Butowski N, Campian JL, Clark SW, Fabiano AJ, Forsyth P, Hattangadi-Gluth J, Holdhoff M, Horbinski C, Junck L, Kaley T, Kumthekar P, Loeffler JS, Mrugala MM, Nagpal S, Pandey M, Parney I, Peters K, Puduvalli VK, Robins I, Rockhill J, Rusthoven C, Shonka N, Shrieve DC, Swinnen LJ, Weiss S, Wen PY, Willmarth NE, Bergman MA, Darlow SD. Central Nervous System Cancers, Version 3.2020, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020 Nov 2;18(11):1537-1570. PubMed PMID: 33152694
• Cushman TR, Jones B, Akhavan D, Rusthoven CG, Verma V, Salgia R, Sedrak M, Massarelli E, Welsh JW, Amini A. The Effects of Time to Treatment Initiation for Patients With Non-small-cell Lung Cancer in the United States. Clin Lung Cancer. 2021 Jan;22(1):e84-e97. PubMed PMID: 33039348
• Palmer JD, Trifiletti DM, Gondi V, Chan M, Minniti G, Rusthoven CG, Schild SE, Mishra MV, Bovi J, Williams N, Lustberg M, Brown PD, Rao G, Roberge D. Multidisciplinary patient-centered management of brain metastases and future directions. Neurooncol Adv. 2020 Jan-Dec;2(1):vdaa034. PubMed PMID: 32793882
• Rusthoven CG, Camidge DR, Robin TP, Brown PD. Radiosurgery for Small-Cell Brain Metastases: Challenging the Last Bastion of Preferential Whole-Brain Radiotherapy Delivery. J Clin Oncol. 2020 Nov 1;38(31):3587-3591. PubMed PMID: 32776807
• Rusthoven CG, Yamamoto M, Bernhardt D, Smith DE, Gao D, Serizawa T, Yomo S, Aiyama H, Higuchi Y, Shuto T, Akabane A, Sato Y, Niranjan A, Faramand AM, Lunsford LD, McInerney J, Tuanquin LC, Zacharia BE, Chiang V, Singh C, Yu JB, Braunstein S, Mathieu D, Touchette CJ, Lee CC, Yang HC, Aizer AA, Cagney DN, Chan MD, Kondziolka D, Bernstein K, Silverman JS, Grills IS, Siddiqui ZA, Yuan JC, Sheehan JP, Cordeiro D, Nosaki K, Seto T, Deibert CP, Verma V, Day S, Halasz LM, Warnick RE, Trifiletti DM, Palmer JD, Attia A, Li B, Cifarelli CP, Brown PD, Vargo JA, Combs SE, Kessel KA, Rieken S, Patel S, Guckenberger M, Andratschke N, Kavanagh BD, Robin TP. Evaluation of First-line Radiosurgery vs Whole-Brain Radiotherapy for Small Cell Lung Cancer Brain Metastases: The FIRE-SCLC Cohort Study. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Jul 1;6(7):1028-1037. PubMed PMID: 32496550
• Verma V, Robinson CG, Rusthoven CG. Hippocampal-Sparing Radiotherapy for Patients With Glioblastoma and Grade II-III Gliomas. JAMA Oncol. 2020 Jul 1;6(7):981-983. PubMed PMID: 32407497
• Vinogradskiy Y, Diot Q, Jones B, Castillo R, Castillo E, Kwak J, Bowles D, Grills I, Myziuk N, Guerrero T, Stevens C, Schefter T, Gaspar LE, Kavanagh B, Miften M, Rusthoven C. Evaluating Positron Emission Tomography-Based Functional Imaging Changes in the Heart After Chemo-Radiation for Patients With Lung Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2020 Apr 1;106(5):1063-1070. PubMed PMID: 31983558
• Tsui DCC, Camidge DR, Rusthoven CG. Managing Central Nervous System Spread of Lung Cancer: The State of the Art. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Jan 5;:JCO2101715. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34985937
• Ganti AKP, Loo BW, Bassetti M, Blakely C, Chiang A, D'Amico TA, D'Avella C, Dowlati A, Downey RJ, Edelman M, Florsheim C, Gold KA, Goldman JW, Grecula JC, Hann C, Iams W, Iyengar P, Kelly K, Khalil M, Koczywas M, Merritt RE, Mohindra N, Molina J, Moran C, Pokharel S, Puri S, Qin A, Rusthoven C, Sands J, Santana-Davila R, Shafique M, Waqar SN, Gregory KM, Hughes M. Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 2.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2021 Dec;19(12):1441-1464. PubMed PMID: 34902832
• Vinogradskiy Y, Castillo R, Castillo E, Schubert L, Jones BL, Faught A, Gaspar LE, Kwak J, Bowles DW, Waxweiler T, Dougherty JM, Gao D, Stevens C, Miften M, Kavanagh B, Grills I, Rusthoven CG, Guerrero T. Results of a Multi-institutional Phase 2 Clinical Trial for 4DCT-ventilation Functional Avoidance Thoracic Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Nov 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34767934
• Fakhoury KR, Ney DE, Ormond DR, Rusthoven CG. Immunotherapy and radiation for high-grade glioma: a narrative review. Transl Cancer Res. 2021 May;10(5):2537-2570. PubMed PMID: 35116570
• Asuzu DT, Bunevicius A, Kormath Anand R, Suleiman M, Nabeel AM, Reda WA, Tawadros SR, Abdel Karim K, El-Shehaby AMN, Emad Eldin RM, Chytka T, Lišcák R, Sheehan K, Sheehan D, Perez Caceres M, Mathieu D, Lee CC, Yang HC, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Speckter H, Olivo J, Patel S, Cifarelli CP, Cifarelli DT, Hack JD, Strickland BA, Zada G, Chang EL, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Warnick RE, Sheehan JP. Clinical and radiologic outcomes after stereotactic radiosurgery for meningiomas in direct contact with the optic apparatus: an international multicenter study. J Neurosurg. 2021 Sep 24;:1-7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34560648
• Thomas NJ, Myall NJ, Sun F, Patil T, Mushtaq R, Yu C, Sinha S, Pollom EL, Nagpal S, Camidge DR, Rusthoven CG, Braunstein SE, Wakelee HA, McCoach CE. Brain Metastases in EGFR- and ALK-Positive NSCLC: Outcomes of Central Nervous System-Penetrant Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Alone Versus in Combination With Radiation. J Thorac Oncol. 2022 Jan;17(1):116-129. PubMed PMID: 34455066
• Bunevicius A, Pikis S, Anand RK, Nabeel AM, Reda WA, Tawadros SR, Abdelkarim K, El-Shehaby AMN, Emad RM, Chytka T, Liscak R, Caceres MP, Mathieu D, Lee CC, Yang HC, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Speckter H, Olivo J, Patel S, Cifarelli CP, Cifarelli DT, Hack JD, Strickland BA, Zada G, Chang EL, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Warnick RE, Sheehan J. Stereotactic radiosurgery for clinoid meningiomas: a multi-institutional study. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2021 Oct;163(10):2861-2869. PubMed PMID: 34427769
• Gjyshi O, Lin SH, Pezzi TA, Ning MS, Ma J, Liu S, Rusthoven CG. Care Patterns for Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Small Cell Lung Cancer Brain Metastases. Clin Lung Cancer. 2021 Jul 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34419375
• Brown PD, Parsons MW, Rusthoven CG, Gondi V. Hippocampal Avoidance Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation: A New Standard of Care?. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Oct 1;39(28):3093-3096. PubMed PMID: 34379456
• Forghani F, Patton T, Kwak J, Thomas D, Diot Q, Rusthoven C, Castillo R, Castillo E, Grills I, Guerrero T, Miften M, Vinogradskiy Y. Characterizing spatial differences between SPECT-ventilation and SPECT-perfusion in patients with lung cancer undergoing radiotherapy. Radiother Oncol. 2021 Jul;160:120-124. PubMed PMID: 33964328
• Nieder C, Mehta MP, Guckenberger M, Gaspar LE, Rusthoven CG, Sahgal A, Grosu AL, De Ruysscher D. Assessment of extracranial metastatic disease in patients with brain metastases: How much effort is needed in the context of evolving survival prediction models?. Radiother Oncol. 2021 Jun;159:17-20. PubMed PMID: 33675870
• Bunevicius A, Anand RK, Suleiman M, Nabeel AM, Reda WA, Tawadros SR, Abdelkarim K, El-Shehaby AMN, Emad RM, Chytka T, Liscak R, Sheehan K, Sheehan D, Caceres MP, Mathieu D, Lee CC, Yang HC, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Speckter H, Olivo J, Patel S, Cifarelli CP, Cifarelli DT, Hack JD, Strickland BA, Zada G, Chang EL, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Warnick RE, Sheehan J. Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Perioptic Meningiomas: An International, Multicenter Study. Neurosurgery. 2021 Mar 15;88(4):828-837. PubMed PMID: 33475718
• Rusthoven CG, Brown PD, Robin TP. Deferring a Change in the Standard of Care for Small Cell Lung Cancer Brain Metastases-Reply. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Jan 1;7(1):135-136. PubMed PMID: 33180104
• Cushman TR, Jones B, Akhavan D, Rusthoven CG, Verma V, Salgia R, Sedrak M, Massarelli E, Welsh JW, Amini A. The Effects of Time to Treatment Initiation for Patients With Non-small-cell Lung Cancer in the United States. Clin Lung Cancer. 2021 Jan;22(1):e84-e97. PubMed PMID: 33039348
• Wu TC, Stube A, Felix C, Oseguera D, Romero T, Goldman J, Garon EB, Lee JM, Glaspy J, Lisberg AE, Rusthoven CG, Camidge DR, Siva S, Solomon B, Lee A, Tenn SE, Shaverdian N, Steinberg ML, Raldow AC, Lee P. Safety and Efficacy Results From iSABR, a Phase 1 Study of Stereotactic ABlative Radiotherapy in Combination With Durvalumab for Early-Stage Medically Inoperable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Sep 1;117(1):118-122. PubMed PMID: 37023987
• Lehrer EJ, Khosla AA, Ozair A, Gurewitz J, Bernstein K, Kondziolka D, Niranjan A, Wei Z, Lunsford LD, Mathieu D, Trudel C, Deibert CP, Malouff TD, Ruiz-Garcia H, Peterson JL, Patel S, Bonney P, Hwang L, Yu C, Zada G, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Prasad RN, Raval RR, Palmer JD, Lee CC, Yang HC, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Dickstein DR, Sheehan JP, Trifiletti DM, Ahluwalia MS. Immune checkpoint inhibition and single fraction stereotactic radiosurgery in brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer: an international multicenter study of 395 patients. J Neurooncol. 2023 Oct;165(1):63-77. PubMed PMID: 37889444
• Ghassemi N, Castillo R, Castillo E, Jones BL, Miften M, Kavanagh B, Werner-Wasik M, Miller R, Barta JA, Grills I, Leiby BE, Guerrero T, Rusthoven CG, Vinogradskiy Y. Evaluation of variables predicting PFT changes for lung cancer patients treated on a prospective 4DCT-ventilation functional avoidance clinical trial. Radiother Oncol. 2023 Oct;187:109821. PubMed PMID: 37516361
• Lehrer EJ, Ahluwalia MS, Gurewitz J, Bernstein K, Kondziolka D, Niranjan A, Wei Z, Lunsford LD, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Mathieu D, Trudel C, Malouff TD, Ruiz-Garcia H, Bonney P, Hwang L, Yu C, Zada G, Patel S, Deibert CP, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Prasad RN, Raval RR, Palmer JD, Lee CC, Yang HC, Jones BM, Green S, Sheehan JP, Trifiletti DM. Imaging-defined necrosis after treatment with single-fraction stereotactic radiosurgery and immune checkpoint inhibitors and its potential association with improved outcomes in patients with brain metastases: an international multicenter study of 697 patients. J Neurosurg. 2023 May 1;138(5):1178-1187. PubMed PMID: 36115055
• Lehrer EJ, Kowalchuk RO, Gurewitz J, Bernstein K, Kondziolka D, Niranjan A, Wei Z, Lunsford LD, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Mathieu D, Trudel C, Malouff TD, Ruiz-Garcia H, Bonney P, Hwang L, Yu C, Zada G, Patel S, Deibert CP, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Prasad RN, Raval RR, Palmer JD, Lee CC, Yang HC, Harmsen WS, Jones BM, Sharma S, Ahluwalia MS, Sheehan JP, Trifiletti DM. Concurrent Administration of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Single Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Melanoma, and Renal Cell Carcinoma Brain Metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Jul 15;116(4):858-868. PubMed PMID: 36690161
• Amini A, Rusthoven CG. Ablative Radiation Therapy for Oligometastatic EGFR-Mutated Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Who, Why, When, and How?. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Jul 1;116(3):481. PubMed PMID: 37270243
• Horbinski C, Nabors LB, Portnow J, Baehring J, Bhatia A, Bloch O, Brem S, Butowski N, Cannon DM, Chao S, Chheda MG, Fabiano AJ, Forsyth P, Gigilio P, Hattangadi-Gluth J, Holdhoff M, Junck L, Kaley T, Merrell R, Mrugala MM, Nagpal S, Nedzi LA, Nevel K, Nghiemphu PL, Parney I, Patel TR, Peters K, Puduvalli VK, Rockhill J, Rusthoven C, Shonka N, Swinnen LJ, Weiss S, Wen PY, Willmarth NE, Bergman MA, Darlow S. NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Central Nervous System Cancers, Version 2.2022. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2023 Jan;21(1):12-20. PubMed PMID: 36634606
• Lorenz J, Moghanaki D, Keshava H, Harpole DH, Bradley JD, Higgins KA, Rusthoven CG Jr, Stokes WA. Sins of omission: A meta-research study evaluating the omission of operability in published retrospective comparisons of surgery with stereotactic body radiotherapy in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer. 2023 Jan;175:57-59. PubMed PMID: 36455397
• Wandrey NE, Gao D, Robin TP, Contessa JN, Singh C, Chiang V, Li J, Chen A, Wang Y, Sheehan JP, Dutta SW, Weiss SE, Paly J, Rusthoven CG. Multicenter analysis of stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases from EGFR and ALK driven non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer. 2023 Feb;176:144-148. PubMed PMID: 36641932
• Rusthoven CG, Staley AW, Gao D, Yomo S, Bernhardt D, Wandrey N, El Shafie R, Kraemer A, Padilla O, Chiang V, Faramand AM, Palmer JD, Zacharia BE, Wegner RE, Hattangadi-Gluth JA, Levy A, Bernstein K, Mathieu D, Cagney DN, Chan MD, Grills IS, Braunstein S, Lee CC, Sheehan JP, Kluwe C, Patel S, Halasz LM, Andratschke N, Deibert CP, Verma V, Trifiletti DM, Cifarelli CP, Debus J, Combs SE, Sato Y, Higuchi Y, Aoyagi K, Brown PD, Alami V, Niranjan A, Lunsford LD, Kondziolka D, Camidge DR, Kavanagh BD, Robin TP, Serizawa T, Yamamoto M. Comparison of first-line radiosurgery for small-cell and non-small cell lung cancer brain metastases (CROSS-FIRE). J Natl Cancer Inst. 2023 Aug 8;115(8):926-936. PubMed PMID: 37142267
• Lee SL, Bassetti MF, Rusthoven CG. The Role of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in the Management of Liver Metastases. Semin Radiat Oncol. 2023 Apr;33(2):181-192. PubMed PMID: 36990635
• Langston J, Patil T, Ross Camidge D, Bunn PA, Schenk EL, Pacheco JM, Jurica J, Waxweiler TV, Kavanagh BD, Rusthoven CG. CNS Downstaging: An Emerging Treatment Paradigm for Extensive Brain Metastases in Oncogene-Addicted Lung Cancer. Lung Cancer. 2023 Apr;178:103-107. PubMed PMID: 36809719
• Stokes WA, Xiong N, Liu Y, Higgins KA, Tian S, Bradley JD, Moghanaki D, Rusthoven CG. Association of Operability With Post-Treatment Mortality in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2022 May;23(3):e231-e237. PubMed PMID: 35093293
• Miller R, Santangelo T, Forghani-Arani F, Rusthoven C, Chen Y, Castillo E, Castillo R, Guerrero T, Vinogradskiy Y. Changes in post-treatment cardiac PET avidity predict overall survival in lung cancer patients treated with chemoradiation: Secondary analysis of the ACRIN 6668/RTOG 0235 clinical trial. Radiother Oncol. 2022 Jun;171:22-24. PubMed PMID: 35413391
• Gondi V, Bauman G, Bradfield L, Burri SH, Cabrera AR, Cunningham DA, Eaton BR, Hattangadi-Gluth JA, Kim MM, Kotecha R, Kraemer L, Li J, Nagpal S, Rusthoven CG, Suh JH, Tomé WA, Wang TJC, Zimmer AS, Ziu M, Brown PD. Radiation Therapy for Brain Metastases: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2022 Jul-Aug;12(4):265-282. PubMed PMID: 35534352
• Camidge DR, Mandair D, Morgan R, Amini A, Rusthoven CG. Quantifying The Medical Impact of A Missed Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer on Chest Imaging. Clin Lung Cancer. 2022 Jul;23(5):377-385. PubMed PMID: 35618630
• Lehrer EJ, Gurewitz J, Bernstein K, Kondziolka D, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Niranjan A, Wei Z, Lunsford LD, Malouff TD, Ruiz-Garcia H, Peterson JL, Bonney P, Hwang L, Yu C, Zada G, Deibert CP, Prasad RN, Raval RR, Palmer JD, Patel S, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Mathieu D, Trudel C, Lee CC, Yang HC, Jones BM, Green S, Ahluwalia MS, Sheehan JP, Trifiletti DM. Concurrent Administration of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Stereotactic Radiosurgery Is Well-Tolerated in Patients With Melanoma Brain Metastases: An International Multicenter Study of 203 Patients. Neurosurgery. 2022 Dec 1;91(6):872-882. PubMed PMID: 36255215
• Lehrer EJ, Gurewitz J, Bernstein K, Patel D, Kondziolka D, Niranjan A, Wei Z, Lunsford LD, Malouff TD, Ruiz-Garcia H, Patel S, Bonney PA, Hwang L, Yu C, Zada G, Mathieu D, Trudel C, Prasad RN, Palmer JD, Jones BM, Sharma S, Fakhoury KR, Rusthoven CG, Deibert CP, Picozzi P, Franzini A, Attuati L, Lee CC, Yang HC, Ahluwalia MS, Sheehan JP, Trifiletti DM. Radiation necrosis in renal cell carcinoma brain metastases treated with checkpoint inhibitors and radiosurgery: An international multicenter study. Cancer. 2022 Apr 1;128(7):1429-1438. PubMed PMID: 35077586
• Forghani F, Castillo R, Castillo E, PhD BJ, Rusthoven C, Kwak J, Moiseenko V, Grills I, Miften M, Vinogradskiy Y, Guerrero T. Is individual perfusion dose-response different than ventilation dose-response for lung cancer patients treated with radiotherapy?. Br J Radiol. 2023 Mar;96(1143):20220119. PubMed PMID: 36633096
• Kowalchuk RO, Niranjan A, Hess J, Antonios JP, Zhang MY, Braunstein S, Ross RB, Pikis S, Deibert CP, Lee CC, Yang HC, Langlois AM, Mathieu D, Peker S, Samanci Y, Rusthoven CG, Chiang V, Wei Z, Lunsford LD, Trifiletti DM, Sheehan JP. Stereotactic radiosurgery and local control of brain metastases from triple-negative breast cancer. J Neurosurg. 2023 Jun 1;138(6):1608-1614. PubMed PMID: 36433878
• Thomas NJ, Myall NJ, Sun F, Patil T, Mushtaq R, Yu C, Sinha S, Pollom EL, Nagpal S, Camidge DR, Rusthoven CG, Braunstein SE, Wakelee HA, McCoach CE. In Response to: "Comparing Addition of Radiotherapy in EGFR- and ALK-Positive NSCLC With Brain Metastases: Are We Evaluating the Optimal Endpoint?". J Thorac Oncol. 2022 Feb;17(2):e12-e14. PubMed PMID: 35074229
• Pike LRG, Miao E, Boe LA, Patil T, Imber BS, Myall NJ, Pollom EL, Hui C, Qu V, Langston J, Chiang V, Grant M, Goldberg SB, Palmer JD, Prasad RN, Wang TJC, Lee A, Shu CA, Chen LN, Thomas NJ, Braunstein SE, Kavanagh BD, Camidge DR, Rusthoven CG. Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors With and Without Up-Front Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases From EGFR and ALK Oncogene-Driven Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (TURBO-NSCLC). J Clin Oncol. 2024 Jul 24;:JCO2302668. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39047224

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