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C. Clifton Ling is a researcher affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their scholarly work spans various fields within medicine and molecular biology, as well as subfields including surgery, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and genetics.

Their research focuses heavily on epigenetics and DNA methylation, pancreatic function and diabetes, birth, development and health, gestational diabetes research and management, adipose tissue and metabolism, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and diet, metabolism, and disease.

Frequent publication venues for Ling's work include Diabetes, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Epigenomics, and Clinical Epigenetics. These journals reflect the core areas of their biomedical and clinical research interests.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A framework for defining FLASH dose rate for pencil beam scanning" (2020, Medical Physics)
  • "Epigenetics of type 2 diabetes mellitus and weight change - a tool for precision medicine?" (2022, Nature Reviews Endocrinology)
  • "Epigenetic regulation of insulin action and secretion - role in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes" (2020, Journal of Internal Medicine)
  • "Epigenetic Changes in Islets of Langerhans Preceding the Onset of Diabetes" (2020, Diabetes)
  • "Epigenetic markers associated with metformin response and intolerance in drug-naïve patients with type 2 diabetes" (2020, Science Translational Medicine)

Ling collaborates frequently with researchers including Alexander Perfilyev, Allan Vaag, Karl Bacos, Sonia García-Calzón, and Emma Nilsson, demonstrating an extensive network within their research community.

Best Publications

  • Towards multidimensional radiotherapy (MD-CRT): biological imaging and biological conformality.

    C.Clifton Ling;John Humm;Steven Larson;Howard Amols

  • Dose escalation with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy affects the outcome in prostate cancer.

    Michael J. Zelefsky;Steven A. Leibel;Paul Gaudin;Gerald J. Kutcher

  • High-dose intensity modulated radiation therapy for prostate cancer: early toxicity and biochemical outcome in 772 patients

    Michael J Zelefsky;Zvi Fuks;Margie Hunt;Yoshiya Yamada

  • HIGH DOSE RADIATION DELIVERED BY INTENSITY MODULATED CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY IMPROVES THE OUTCOME OF LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER

    Michael J. Zelefsky;Zvi Fuks;Margie Hunt;Henry J. Lee

  • Deep inspiration breath-hold technique for lung tumors: the potential value of target immobilization and reduced lung density in dose escalation ☆

    Joseph Hanley;Marc M. Debois;Dennis Mah;Gikas S. Mageras

  • Clinical experience with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in prostate cancer.

    Michael J Zelefsky;Zvi Fuks;Laura Happersett;Henry J Lee

  • Radiation-induced apoptosis: Relevance to radiotherapy

    William C. Dewey;Clifton C. Ling;Raymond E. Meyn

  • Physical and dosimetric aspects of a multileaf collimation system used in the dynamic mode for implementing intensity modulated radiotherapy.

    Thomas LoSasso;Chen-Shou Chui;C. Clifton Ling

  • The deep inspiration breath-hold technique in the treatment of inoperable non–small-cell lung cancer

    Kenneth E Rosenzweig;Joseph Hanley;Dennis Mah;Gig Mageras

  • Respiration-correlated spiral CT: a method of measuring respiratory-induced anatomic motion for radiation treatment planning.

    E. C. Ford;G. S. Mageras;E. Yorke;C. C. Ling

  • Effect of Respiratory Gating on Quantifying PET Images of Lung Cancer

    Sadek A. Nehmeh;Yusuf E. Erdi;Clifton C. Ling;Kenneth E. Rosenzweig

  • Late rectal bleeding after conformal radiotherapy of prostate cancer (II): volume effects and dose–volume histograms

    Andrew Jackson;Mark W Skwarchuk;Michael J Zelefsky;Didier M Cowen

  • Late rectal toxicity after conformal radiotherapy of prostate cancer (I): multivariate analysis and dose-response.

    Mark W Skwarchuk;Andrew Jackson;Michael J Zelefsky;Ennapadam S Venkatraman

  • Conformal radiation treatment of prostate cancer using inversely-planned intensity-modulated photon beams produced with dynamic multileaf collimation.

    C.Clifton Ling;Chandra Burman;Chen S. Chui;Gerald J. Kutcher

  • Comparison of the 5-Year Outcome and Morbidity of Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy Versus Transperineal Permanent Iodine-125 Implantation for Early-Stage Prostatic Cancer

    Michael J. Zelefsky;Kent E. Wallner;C. Clifton Ling;Adam Raben

  • Technical aspects of the deep inspiration breath-hold technique in the treatment of thoracic cancer

    Dennis Mah;Joseph Hanley;Kenneth E Rosenzweig;Ellen Yorke

  • Planning, delivery, and quality assurance of intensity-modulated radiotherapy using dynamic multileaf collimator: a strategy for large-scale implementation for the treatment of carcinoma of the prostate.

    Chandra Burman;Chen-Shou Chui;Gerald Kutcher;Steven Leibel

  • Dose-volume factors contributing to the incidence of radiation pneumonitis in non-small-cell lung cancer patients treated with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy.

    Ellen D. Yorke;Andrew Jackson;Kenneth E. Rosenzweig;Scott A. Merrick

  • Treatment planning and delivery of intensity-modulated radiation therapy for primary nasopharynx cancer.

    Margie A Hunt;Michael J Zelefsky;Suzanne Wolden;Chen-Shou Chui

  • Clinically relevant optimization of 3-D conformal treatments.

    R. Mohan;G. S. Mageras;B. Baldwin;L. J. Brewster

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Fuks
Zvi Fuks Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Steven A. Leibel
Steven A. Leibel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael J. Zelefsky
Michael J. Zelefsky Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John L. Humm
John L. Humm Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Radhe Mohan
Radhe Mohan The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gloria C. Li
Gloria C. Li Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jason A. Koutcher
Jason A. Koutcher Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nancy Y. Lee
Nancy Y. Lee Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
James A. Russell
James A. Russell Boston College
Steven M. Larson
Steven M. Larson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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