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Overview

Cristina R. Antonescu is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical fields with a strong emphasis on oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, rheumatology, molecular biology, and surgery.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Vascular Tumors and Angiosarcomas
  • Cardiac tumors and thrombi
  • Tumors and Oncological Cases
  • Soft tissue tumor case studies
  • Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases
  • Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments

Cristina R. Antonescu has a significant publication record in several venues, particularly:

  • Genes Chromosomes and Cancer (58 publications)
  • Modern Pathology (27 publications)
  • The American Journal of Surgical Pathology (23 publications)
  • Clinical Cancer Research (11 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology (10 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Cristina R. Antonescu include:

  • "Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling," published in 2021 in Nature Communications
  • "Objective Response Rate Among Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Sarcoma Treated With Talimogene Laherparepvec in Combination With Pembrolizumab," published in 2020 in JAMA Oncology
  • "Clinical sequencing of soft tissue and bone sarcomas delineates diverse genomic landscapes and potential therapeutic targets," published in 2022 in Nature Communications
  • "Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, an ultra-rare cancer: a consensus paper from the community of experts," published in 2021 in ESMO Open
  • "Diagnosis and management of tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) fusion sarcomas: expert recommendations from the World Sarcoma Network," published in 2020 in Annals of Oncology

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Josephine K. Dermawan
  • William D. Tap
  • Ping Chi
  • Brendan C. Dickson
  • Samuel Singer

Best Publications

  • The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

    Rameen Beroukhim;Craig H. Mermel;Craig H. Mermel;Dale Porter;Guo Wei

  • Classification and diagnostic prediction of cancers using gene expression profiling and artificial neural networks

    Javed Khan;Jun S. Wei;Markus Ringnér;Markus Ringnér;Lao H. Saal

  • Adjuvant imatinib mesylate after resection of localised, primary gastrointestinal stromal tumour: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    Ronald P. DeMatteo;Karla V. Ballman;Cristina R. Antonescu;Robert G. Maki

  • NCCN Task Force report: update on the management of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors

    George D. Demetri;Margaret Von Mehren;Cristina R. Antonescu;Ronald P. DeMatteo

  • KIT as a therapeutic target in metastatic melanoma

    Richard D. Carvajal;Cristina R. Antonescu;Jedd D. Wolchok;Paul B. Chapman

  • Crizotinib in ALK-rearranged inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.

    James E. Butrynski;David R. D’Adamo;Jason L. Hornick;Paola Dal Cin

  • Primary Renal Neoplasms with the ASPL-TFE3 Gene Fusion of Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma: A Distinctive Tumor Entity Previously Included among Renal Cell Carcinomas of Children and Adolescents

    Pedram Argani;Cristina R. Antonescu;Peter B. Illei;Man Yee Lui

  • Identification of recurrent NAB2-STAT6 gene fusions in solitary fibrous tumor by integrative sequencing

    Dan R. Robinson;Yi Mi Wu;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Xuhong Cao

  • Subtype-specific genomic alterations define new targets for soft-tissue sarcoma therapy.

    Jordi Barretina;Barry S Taylor;Barry S Taylor;Shantanu Banerji;Shantanu Banerji;Alexis H Ramos;Alexis H Ramos

  • Histologic Subtype and Margin of Resection Predict Pattern of Recurrence and Survival for Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma

    Samuel Singer;Cristina R. Antonescu;Elyn Riedel;Murray F. Brennan

  • SYT–SSX Gene Fusion as a Determinant of Morphology and Prognosis in Synovial Sarcoma

    Akira Kawai;James Woodruff;John H. Healey;Murray F. Brennan

  • Defects in succinate dehydrogenase in gastrointestinal stromal tumors lacking KIT and PDGFRA mutations

    Katherine A. Janeway;Su Young Kim;Maya Lodish;Vânia Nosé

  • Tumor mitotic rate, size, and location independently predict recurrence after resection of primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).

    Ronald P. DeMatteo;Jason S. Gold;Lisa Saran;Mithat Gönen

  • Phase II Study of Sorafenib in Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Sarcomas

    Robert G. Maki;David R. D'Adamo;Mary L. Keohan;Michael Saulle

  • The der(17)t(x;17)(p11;q25) of human alveolar soft part sarcoma fuses the TFE3 transcription factor gene to ASPL, a novel gene at 17q25

    Marc Ladanyi;Man Yee Lui;Cristina R Antonescu;Amber Krause-Boehm

  • Nivolumab with or without ipilimumab treatment for metastatic sarcoma (Alliance A091401): two open-label, non-comparative, randomised, phase 2 trials.

    Sandra P D'Angelo;Sandra P D'Angelo;Michelle R Mahoney;Brian A Van Tine;James Atkins

  • Impact of SYT-SSX fusion type on the clinical behavior of synovial sarcoma: a multi-institutional retrospective study of 243 patients.

    Marc Ladanyi;Cristina R Antonescu;Denis H Leung;James M Woodruff

  • Development and validation of a prognostic nomogram for recurrence-free survival after complete surgical resection of localised primary gastrointestinal stromal tumour: a retrospective analysis

    Jason S Gold;Jason S Gold;Mithat Gönen;Antonio Gutiérrez;Javier Martín Broto

  • EWSR1‐POU5F1 fusion in soft tissue myoepithelial tumors. A molecular analysis of sixty‐six cases, including soft tissue, bone, and visceral lesions, showing common involvement of the EWSR1 gene

    Cristina R. Antonescu;Lei Zhang;Ning En Chang;Bruce R. Pawel

  • PRC2 is recurrently inactivated through EED or SUZ12 loss in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors

    William Lee;Sewit Teckie;Thomas Wiesner;Leili Ran

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Singer
Samuel Singer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Robert G. Maki
Robert G. Maki University of Pennsylvania
Murray F. Brennan
Murray F. Brennan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marc Ladanyi
Marc Ladanyi Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ronald P. DeMatteo
Ronald P. DeMatteo University of Pennsylvania
Christopher D.M. Fletcher
Christopher D.M. Fletcher Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Besmer
Peter Besmer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John H. Healey
John H. Healey Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Pedram Argani
Pedram Argani Johns Hopkins University
Nicholas D. Socci
Nicholas D. Socci Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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