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  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lawrence N. Shulman is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant portion dedicated to oncology. Over the course of their career, they have contributed to 310 publications in the field of medicine, including 135 specific to oncology.

Their subfields of study include economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cancer research. This demonstrates a multidisciplinary approach linking economic factors, healthcare systems, and clinical oncology.

Frequent topics addressed in their work include:

  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy

Lawrence N. Shulman has published extensively in several prominent venues, including:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology (35 publications)
  • JCO Global Oncology (21 publications)
  • JAMA Oncology (12 publications)
  • JCO Oncology Practice (11 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (10 publications)

Their frequent coauthors consist of Peter Gabriel (42 papers), Justin E. Bekelman (34 papers), Ravi B. Parikh (29 papers), Cyprien Shyirambere (24 papers), and Lynn M. Schuchter (21 papers).

Selected recent papers by Lawrence N. Shulman include:

  • Recommendations for prioritization, treatment, and triage of breast cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic breast cancer consortium, 2020, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Medical imaging and nuclear medicine: a Lancet Oncology Commission, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • Effect of Integrating Machine Learning Mortality Estimates With Behavioral Nudges to Clinicians on Serious Illness Conversations Among Patients With Cancer, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • Anthracycline-containing and taxane-containing chemotherapy for early-stage operable breast cancer: a patient-level meta-analysis of 100,800 women from 86 randomised trials, 2023, The Lancet
  • Association of Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act With Insurance Status, Cancer Stage, and Timely Treatment Among Patients With Breast, Colon, and Lung Cancer, 2020, JAMA Network Open

In recognition of their contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Prognostic Value of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Triple-Negative Breast Cancers From Two Phase III Randomized Adjuvant Breast Cancer Trials: ECOG 2197 and ECOG 1199

    Sylvia Adams;Robert J. Gray;Sandra Demaria;Lori Goldstein

  • Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action.

    Paul Farmer;Julio Frenk;Felicia M Knaul;Lawrence N Shulman

  • Using the National Cancer Database for Outcomes Research: A Review.

    Daniel J. Boffa;Joshua E. Rosen;Katherine Mallin;Ashley Loomis

  • The sequencing of chemotherapy and radiation therapy after conservative surgery for early-stage breast cancer.

    Recht A;Come Se;Henderson Ic;Gelman Rs

  • Induction chemoradiation and surgical resection for superior sulcus non-small-cell lung carcinomas: Long-term results of Southwest Oncology Group trial 9416 (Intergroup trial 0160)

    Valerie W. Rusch;Dorothy J. Giroux;Michael J. Kraut;John Crowley

  • Clinical Activity of Trastuzumab and Vinorelbine in Women With HER2-Overexpressing Metastatic Breast Cancer

    Harold J. Burstein;Irene Kuter;Susana M. Campos;Rebecca S. Gelman

  • Prognostic Utility of the 21-Gene Assay in Hormone Receptor-Positive Operable Breast Cancer Compared With Classical Clinicopathologic Features

    Lori J. Goldstein;Robert Gray;Sunil Badve;Barrett H. Childs

  • Docetaxel Administered on a Weekly Basis for Metastatic Breast Cancer

    Harold J. Burstein;Judith Manola;Jerry Younger;Leroy M. Parker

  • Phase I Clinical Trial of Recombinant Human Endostatin Administered as a Short Intravenous Infusion Repeated Daily

    Joseph P. Eder;Jeffrey G. Supko;Jeffrey W. Clark;Thomas A. Puchalski

  • Phase I Trial of Intraperitoneal Injection of the E1B-55-kd-Gene–Deleted Adenovirus ONYX-015 (dl1520) Given on Days 1 Through 5 Every 3 Weeks in Patients With Recurrent/Refractory Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    P. A. Vasey;L. N. Shulman;S. Campos;J. Davis

  • Recommendations for prioritization, treatment, and triage of breast cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. the COVID-19 pandemic breast cancer consortium.

    Jill R. Dietz;Meena S. Moran;Meena S. Moran;Steven J. Isakoff;Steven J. Isakoff;Scott H. Kurtzman

  • Association of sleep-disordered breathing with postoperative complications

    Dennis Hwang;Nawaid Shakir;Baba Limann;Cristina Sison

  • Incident Cases Captured in the National Cancer Database Compared with Those in U.S. Population Based Central Cancer Registries in 2012-2014.

    Katherine Mallin;Amanda Browner;Bryan Palis

  • Breast Cancer in Developing Countries: Opportunities for Improved Survival

    Lawrence Nathan Shulman;Walter C. Willett;Amy Claire Sievers;Felicia Marie Knaul

  • Prognosis following salvage mastectomy for recurrence in the breast after conservative surgery and radiation therapy for early-stage breast cancer.

    A L Abner;A Recht;T Eberlein;S Come

  • Rwanda 20 years on: investing in life

    Agnes Binagwaho;Paul E. Farmer;Sabin Nsanzimana;Corine Karema

  • Developing a Quality of Cancer Survivorship Care Framework: Implications for Clinical Care, Research, and Policy.

    Larissa Nekhlyudov;Michelle A Mollica;Paul B Jacobsen;Deborah K Mayer

  • Sequencing of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: Updated Results of a Prospective Randomized Trial

    Jennifer R. Bellon;Steven E. Come;Rebecca S. Gelman;I. Craig Henderson

  • Second malignancies after treatment for laparotomy staged IA-IIIB Hodgkin's disease: long-term analysis of risk factors and outcome

    PM Mauch;LA Kalish;KC Marcus;CN Coleman

  • Medication safety in the ambulatory chemotherapy setting.

    Tejal K. Gandhi;Sylvia B. Bartel;Lawrence N. Shulman;Deborah Verrier

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy L. Keating
Nancy L. Keating Harvard University
Abram Recht
Abram Recht Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jay R. Harris
Jay R. Harris Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Mauch
Peter Mauch Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rebecca Gelman
Rebecca Gelman Harvard University
George P. Canellos
George P. Canellos Harvard University
Eric P. Winer
Eric P. Winer Yale University
Joseph A. Sparano
Joseph A. Sparano Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Nancy E. Davidson
Nancy E. Davidson University of Washington
Ann H. Partridge
Ann H. Partridge Harvard University

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