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Douglas Yee is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work primarily focuses on Oncology, Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research topics include Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research, Advanced Breast Cancer Therapies, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, and Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors.

Douglas Yee has been involved in publishing research in a variety of respected journals, with frequent appearances in Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Surgical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, and Annals of Oncology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Association of Event-Free and Distant Recurrence-Free Survival With Individual-Level Pathologic Complete Response in Neoadjuvant Treatment of Stages 2 and 3 Breast Cancer (2020, JAMA Oncology)
  • Effect of Pembrolizumab Plus Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Pathologic Complete Response in Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer (2020, JAMA Oncology)
  • Durvalumab with olaparib and paclitaxel for high-risk HER2-negative stage II/III breast cancer: Results from the adaptively randomized I-SPY2 trial (2021, Cancer Cell)
  • Redefining breast cancer subtypes to guide treatment prioritization and maximize response: Predictive biomarkers across 10 cancer therapies (2022, Cancer Cell)
  • Clinical significance and biology of circulating tumor DNA in high-risk early-stage HER2-negative breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (2023, Cancer Cell)

Douglas Yee has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Christina Yau, Laura J. Esserman, Angela DeMichele, Claudine Isaacs, and Laura van 't Veer.

Best Publications

  • Diabetes and Cancer: A consensus report

    Edward L. Giovannucci;David M. Harlan;Michael C. Archer;Richard M. Bergenstal

  • APOBEC3B is an enzymatic source of mutation in breast cancer

    Michael B. Burns;Lela Lackey;Michael A. Carpenter;Anurag Rathore

  • Morphine Stimulates Angiogenesis by Activating Proangiogenic and Survival-promoting Signaling and Promotes Breast Tumor Growth

    Kalpna Gupta;Smita Kshirsagar;Liming Chang;Robert Schwartz

  • Acquired resistance to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in cancer cells is mediated by loss of IGF-binding proteins.

    Marta Guix;Anthony C. Faber;Shizhen Emily Wang;Maria Graciela Olivares

  • Effect of Pembrolizumab Plus Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Pathologic Complete Response in Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer: An Analysis of the Ongoing Phase 2 Adaptively Randomized I-SPY2 Trial

    Rita Nanda;Minetta C Liu;Christina Yau;Rebecca Shatsky

  • Adaptive Randomization of Veliparib–Carboplatin Treatment in Breast Cancer

    Hope S. Rugo;Olufunmilayo I. Olopade;Angela DeMichele;Christina Yau

  • Disrupting Insulin-Like Growth Factor Signaling as a Potential Cancer Therapy

    D. Sachdev;D. Yee

  • Analysis of insulin-like growth factor I gene expression in malignancy: evidence for a paracrine role in human breast cancer

    Douglas Yee;Soonmyoung Paik;Soonmyoung Paik;Gail S. Lebovic;Gail S. Lebovic;Rachel R. Marcus;Rachel R. Marcus

  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Weight Training and Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Survivors

    Rehana L. Ahmed;William Thomas;Douglas Yee;Kathryn H. Schmitz

  • Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptor Expression and Function in Human Breast Cancer

    Kevin J. Cullen;Douglas Yee;William S. Sly;James Perdue

  • Enhancement of insulin-like growth factor signaling in human breast cancer: estrogen regulation of insulin receptor substrate-1 expression in vitro and in vivo.

    A. V. Lee;J. G. Jackson;J. L. Gooch;S. G. Hilsenbeck

  • Activation of translation complex eIF4F is essential for the genesis and maintenance of the malignant phenotype in human mammary epithelial cells.

    Svetlana Avdulov;Shunan Li;Van Michalek;David Burrichter

  • Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy of Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: Predicting Response with in Vivo 1H MR Spectroscopy—A Pilot Study at 4 T

    Sina Meisamy;Patrick J Bolan;Eva H Baker;Robin L Bliss

  • The IGF system and breast cancer.

    Deepali Sachdev;Douglas Yee

  • Adaptive Randomization of Neratinib in Early Breast Cancer

    John W Park;Minetta C Liu;Douglas Yee;Christina Yau

  • Safety and Efficacy of Weight Training in Recent Breast Cancer Survivors to Alter Body Composition, Insulin, and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Axis Proteins

    Kathryn H. Schmitz;Rehana L. Ahmed;Peter J. Hannan;Douglas Yee

  • In vivo quantification of choline compounds in the breast with 1H MR spectroscopy.

    Patrick J. Bolan;Sina Meisamy;Eva H. Baker;Joseph Lin

  • Quantum dots for cancer diagnosis and therapy: Biological and clinical perspectives

    Hua Zhang;Douglas Yee;Chun Wang

  • Insulin-like growth factor II mRNA expression in human breast cancer.

    Douglas Yee;Kevin J. Cullen;Soonmyoung Paik;James F. Perdue

  • IGF System and Breast Cancer

    Marc A. Becker;Douglas Yee

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura J. Esserman
Laura J. Esserman University of California, San Francisco
Angela DeMichele
Angela DeMichele University of Pennsylvania
Donald A. Berry
Donald A. Berry The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Christina Yau
Christina Yau University of California, San Francisco
Laura J. van't Veer
Laura J. van't Veer University of California, San Francisco
Kathy S. Albain
Kathy S. Albain Loyola University Chicago
Anthony D. Elias
Anthony D. Elias University of Colorado Boulder
Hope S. Rugo
Hope S. Rugo University of California, San Francisco
Judy C. Boughey
Judy C. Boughey Mayo Clinic
Claudine Isaacs
Claudine Isaacs Georgetown University

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