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Leslie L. Robison is affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States. Their research is focused primarily within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to several subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Molecular Biology; Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine; and Genetics.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to childhood cancer survivors and associated health outcomes. Their main research themes include Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research, Family Support in Illness, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation, Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Among recent papers by Robison are:

  • Late mortality and chronic health conditions in long-term survivors of early-adolescent and young adult cancers: a retrospective cohort analysis from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • Childhood cancer: Survival, treatment modalities, late effects and improvements over time, 2020, Cancer Epidemiology
  • Sustainable care for children with cancer: a Lancet Oncology Commission, 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • Frequency of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer-Susceptibility Genes in Patients With Osteosarcoma, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • St. Jude Cloud: A Pediatric Cancer Genomic Data-Sharing Ecosystem, 2021, Cancer Discovery

Robison collaborates frequently with several researchers including Melissa M. Hudson, Gregory T. Armstrong, Kirsten K. Ness, Yutaka Yasui, and Kevin R. Krull.

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Research, Cancer, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, reflecting a consistent contribution to oncology and related medical research fields.

Best Publications

  • Chronic Health Conditions in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

    Kevin C. Oeffinger;Ann C. Mertens;Charles A. Sklar;Toana Kawashima

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

    Ching-Hon Pui;Leslie L Robison;A Thomas Look

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

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

  • Cardiac outcomes in a cohort of adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: retrospective analysis of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort.

    Daniel A Mulrooney;Mark W Yeazel;Toana Kawashima;Ann C Mertens

  • Breast Cancer and Other Second Neoplasms after Childhood Hodgkin's Disease

    Smita Bhatia;Leslie L. Robison;Odile Oberlin;Mark Greenberg

  • Late mortality experience in five-year survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Ann C. Mertens;Yutaka Yasui;Joseph P. Neglia;John D. Potter

  • Survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: life-long risks and responsibilities

    Leslie L. Robison;Melissa M. Hudson

  • Second Malignant Neoplasms in Five-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Joseph P. Neglia;Debra L. Friedman;Yutaka Yasui;Ann C. Mertens

  • Development of Risk-Based Guidelines for Pediatric Cancer Survivors: The Children's Oncology Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines From the Children's Oncology Group Late Effects Committee and Nursing Discipline

    Wendy Landier;Smita Bhatia;Debra A. Eshelman;Katherine J. Forte

  • 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

  • Late Mortality Among 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Summary From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Qi Liu;Yutaka Yasui;Joseph P. Neglia

  • Incidence of cancer in children in the United States. Sex-, race-, and 1-year age-specific rates by histologic type

    James G. Gurney;Richard K. Severson;Scott Davis;Scott Davis;Leslie L. Robison

  • Cause-Specific Late Mortality Among 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Ann C. Mertens;Qi Liu;Joseph P. Neglia;Karen Wasilewski

  • Study design and cohort characteristics of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study: a multi-institutional collaborative project.

    Leslie L. Robison;Ann C. Mertens;John D. Boice;Norman E. Breslow

  • Subsequent Neoplasms in 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Debra L. Friedman;John Whitton;Wendy Leisenring;Wendy Leisenring;Ann C. Mertens

  • High Risk of Subsequent Neoplasms Continues With Extended Follow-Up of Childhood Hodgkin’s Disease: Report From the Late Effects Study Group

    Smita Bhatia;Yutaka Yasui;Leslie L. Robison;Jillian M. Birch

  • Modifiable Risk Factors and Major Cardiac Events Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Kevin C. Oeffinger;Yan Chen;Toana Kawashima

  • Second neoplasms after acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood.

    Neglia Jp;Meadows At;Robison Ll;Kim Th

  • The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study: A National Cancer Institute–Supported Resource for Outcome and Intervention Research

    Leslie L. Robison;Gregory T. Armstrong;John D. Boice;Eric J. Chow

  • New Primary Neoplasms of the Central Nervous System in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: a Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Joseph P. Neglia;Leslie L. Robison;Marilyn Stovall;Yan Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa M. Hudson
Melissa M. Hudson St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Gregory T. Armstrong
Gregory T. Armstrong St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Wendy Leisenring
Wendy Leisenring Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Kirsten K. Ness
Kirsten K. Ness St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kevin C. Oeffinger
Kevin C. Oeffinger Duke University
Kevin R. Krull
Kevin R. Krull St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Marilyn Stovall
Marilyn Stovall The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Smita Bhatia
Smita Bhatia University of Alabama at Birmingham
Charles A. Sklar
Charles A. Sklar Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Joseph P. Neglia
Joseph P. Neglia University of Minnesota

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