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Kirsten K. Ness is affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Additional subfields of study include public health, environmental and occupational health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, and oncology.

The scientist has extensively published work related to childhood cancer survivors and their quality of life. Other main topics in their research portfolio include acute lymphoblastic leukemia research, family support in illness, chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation, palliative care and end-of-life issues, cancer-related cognitive impairment studies, and adolescent and pediatric healthcare.

Recent noteworthy publications authored or co-authored by Ness include the following:

  • Major cardiac events for adult survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed between 1970 and 1999: report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort, 2020, BMJ
  • Cohort Profile: The St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study (SJLIFE) for paediatric cancer survivors, 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Specific causes of excess late mortality and association with modifiable risk factors among survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort, 2023, The Lancet
  • Frailty and aging in cancer survivors, 2020, Translational Research
  • Strategies to Prevent or Remediate Cancer and Treatment-Related Aging, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Frequent co-authors include Melissa M. Hudson, Leslie L. Robison, Gregory T. Armstrong, Kevin R. Krull, and Yutaka Yasui. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers active in pediatric oncology and survivorship research.

Ness has contributed extensively to several publication venues, most notably:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology with 70 publications
  • Cancer Research with 27 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 16 publications
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute with 15 publications
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention with 13 publications

Best Publications

  • Clinical Ascertainment of Health Outcomes Among Adults Treated for Childhood Cancer

    Melissa M. Hudson;Kirsten K. Ness;James G. Gurney;Daniel A. Mulrooney

  • The cumulative burden of surviving childhood cancer: an initial report from the St Jude Lifetime Cohort Study (SJLIFE)

    Nickhill Bhakta;Qi Liu;Kirsten K Ness;Malek Baassiri

  • Long-term outcomes among adult survivors of childhood central nervous system malignancies in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Qi Liu;Yutaka Yasui;Sujuan Huang

  • Social Outcomes in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Cohort

    James G. Gurney;Kevin R. Krull;Nina Kadan-Lottick;H. Stacy Nicholson

  • American society of clinical oncology position statement on obesity and cancer

    Jennifer A. Ligibel;Catherine M. Alfano;Kerry S. Courneya;Wendy Demark-Wahnefried

  • Psychosocial Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Lonnie K. Zeltzer;Qian Lu;Wendy Leisenring;Jennie C.I. Tsao

  • Behavioral and Social Outcomes in Adolescent Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Kris Ann P. Schultz;Kirsten K. Ness;John Whitton;Christopher Recklitis

  • Medical Care in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Paul C. Nathan;Mark L. Greenberg;Kirsten K. Ness;Melissa M. Hudson

  • Diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular events in survivors of hematopoietic cell transplantation: a report from the bone marrow transplantation survivor study

    K. Scott Baker;Kirsten K Ness;Julia Steinberger;Andrea Carter

  • Neurocognitive Outcomes Decades After Treatment for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From the St Jude Lifetime Cohort Study

    Kevin R. Krull;Tara M. Brinkman;Chenghong Li;Gregory T. Armstrong

  • Limitations on Physical Performance and Daily Activities among Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer

    Kirsten K. Ness;Ann C. Mertens;Melissa M. Hudson;Melanie M. Wall

  • Comprehensive echocardiographic detection of treatment-related cardiac dysfunction in adult survivors of childhood cancer: results from the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Vijaya M. Joshi;Kirsten K. Ness;Thomas H. Marwick

  • Physiologic Frailty As a Sign of Accelerated Aging Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the St Jude Lifetime Cohort Study

    Kirsten K. Ness;Kevin R. Krull;Kendra E. Jones;Daniel A. Mulrooney

  • Soft tissue sarcoma across the age spectrum: A population-based study from the surveillance epidemiology and end results database†

    Andrea Ferrari;Iyad Sultan;Tseng Tien Huang;Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo

  • Prospective Reciprocal Relations between Physical Activity and Depression in Female Adolescents.

    Sarah J. Jerstad;Kerri N. Boutelle;Kirsten K. Ness;Eric Stice

  • Screening Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer for Cardiomyopathy: Comparison of Echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Juan Carlos Plana;Nan Zhang;Deokumar Srivastava

  • Fatigue and sleep disturbance in adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study (CCSS).

    Daniel A. Mulrooney;Kirsten K. Ness;Joseph P. Neglia;John A. Whitton

  • Impact of chronic graft-versus-host disease on the health status of hematopoietic cell transplantation survivors: a report from the Bone Marrow Transplant Survivor Study

    Christopher J. Fraser;Smita Bhatia;Kirsten Ness;Andrea Carter

  • Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adult Survivors of Pediatric Cancer—A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Lillian R. Meacham;Eric J. Chow;Kirsten K. Ness;Kala Y. Kamdar

  • A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS): cancer related posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, anxiety, and chronic pain in adult childhood cancer survivors

    Q. Lu;J. Tsao;W. Leisenring;L. Zeltzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa M. Hudson
Melissa M. Hudson St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Gregory T. Armstrong
Gregory T. Armstrong St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Daniel M. Green
Daniel M. Green St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kevin R. Krull
Kevin R. Krull St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Wendy Leisenring
Wendy Leisenring Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Kevin C. Oeffinger
Kevin C. Oeffinger Duke University
Ching-Hon Pui
Ching-Hon Pui St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
James G. Gurney
James G. Gurney University of Memphis
Marilyn Stovall
Marilyn Stovall The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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