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Markku Miettinen is affiliated with the National Cancer Institute in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans a variety of specialized subfields, including pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, molecular biology, oncology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The main areas of their work focus on sarcoma diagnosis and treatment, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, adrenal and paraganglionic tumors, neuroblastoma research and treatments, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, tumors and oncological cases, and advances in neuroendocrine tumor research.

Markku Miettinen has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Jerzy Lasota, Jeremy L. Davis, Lauren A. Gamble, Martha Quezado, and Theo Heller. Their publications regularly appear in journals such as the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, The American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Modern Pathology, Neuro-Oncology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Miettinen include:

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumours, 2021, Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Other notable publications from the same period, though not authored by Miettinen but indicative of the research environment, include:

  • Molecular Subtypes of Primary SCLC Tumors and Their Associations With Neuroendocrine and Therapeutic Markers, 2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • PRAME Expression in Cancer. A Systematic Immunohistochemical Study of >5800 Epithelial and Nonepithelial Tumors, 2022, The American Journal of Surgical Pathology
  • Cancer surveillance as an alternative to prophylactic total gastrectomy in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: a prospective cohort study, 2023, The Lancet Oncology
  • Development of Highly Effective Anti-Mesothelin hYP218 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells With Increased Tumor Infiltration and Persistence for Treating Solid Tumors, 2022, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Best Publications

  • Diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: A consensus approach.

    Christopher D.M. Fletcher;Jules J. Berman;Christopher Corless;Fred Gorstein

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors--definition, clinical, histological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic features and differential diagnosis.

    Markku Miettinen;Jerzy Lasota

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: Pathology and prognosis at different sites

    Markku Miettinen;Jerzy Lasota

  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: Review on Morphology, Molecular Pathology, Prognosis, and Differential Diagnosis

    Markku Miettinen;Jerzy Lasota

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the stomach: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 1765 cases with long-term follow-up.

    Markku Miettinen;Leslie H Sobin;Jerzy Lasota

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, intramural leiomyomas, and leiomyosarcomas in the duodenum: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 167 cases

    Markku Miettinen;Janusz Kopczynski;Hala R. Makhlouf;Maarit Sarlomo-Rikala

  • Evaluation of malignancy and prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a review.

    Markku Miettinen;Wa'el El-Rifai;Wa'el El-Rifai;Leslie H L Sobin;Leslie H L Sobin;Jerzy Lasota;Jerzy Lasota

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the jejunum and ileum: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 906 cases before imatinib with long-term follow-up.

    Markku Miettinen;Hala Makhlouf;Leslie H Sobin;Jerzy Lasota

  • Immunohistochemical spectrum of GISTs at different sites and their differential diagnosis with a reference to CD117 (KIT).

    Markku Miettinen;Leslie H. Sobin;Maarit Sarlomo-Rikala

  • Intra-abdominal desmoplastic small round-cell tumor. Report of 19 cases of a distinctive type of high-grade polyphenotypic malignancy affecting young individuals.

    William L. Gerald;Hariatmi K. Miller;Hector Battifora;Markku Miettinen

  • Mutations in Exon 11 of c-Kit Occur Preferentially in Malignant versus Benign Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors and Do Not Occur in Leiomyomas or Leiomyosarcomas

    Jerzy Lasota;Marek Jasinski;Maarit Sarlomo-Rikala;Markku Miettinen

  • Atypical and malignant glomus tumors: analysis of 52 cases, with a proposal for the reclassification of glomus tumors.

    Andrew L. Folpe;Julie C. Fanburg-Smith;Markku Miettinen;Sharon W. Weiss

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: radiologic features with pathologic correlation.

    Angela D Levy;Helen E Remotti;William M Thompson;Leslie H Sobin

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors/smooth muscle tumors (GISTs) primary in the omentum and mesentery: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 26 cases.

    Markku Miettinen;James M. Monihan;Maarit Sarlomo-Rikala;Albert J. Kovatich

  • Pathology and diagnostic criteria of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs): a review

    Markku Miettinen;Mourad Majidi;Jerzy Lasota

  • KIT (CD117): a review on expression in normal and neoplastic tissues, and mutations and their clinicopathologic correlation.

    Markku Miettinen;Jerzy Lasota

  • Most osteomalacia-associated mesenchymal tumors are a single histopathologic entity: an analysis of 32 cases and a comprehensive review of the literature.

    Andrew L. Folpe;Julie C. Fanburg-Smith;Steven D. Billings;Michele Bisceglia

  • Esophageal stromal tumors: a clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 17 cases and comparison with esophageal leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas.

    Markku Miettinen;Maarit Sarlomo-Rikala;Leslie H. Sobin;Jerzy Lasota

  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors in patients with neurofibromatosis 1: a clinicopathologic and molecular genetic study of 45 cases.

    Markku Miettinen;John F Fetsch;Leslie H Sobin;Jerzy Lasota

  • DOG1 antibody in the differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a study of 1840 cases.

    Markku Miettinen;Zeng-Feng Wang;Jerzy Lasota

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerzy Lasota
Jerzy Lasota National Institutes of Health
Leslie H. Sobin
Leslie H. Sobin National Cancer Institute
Sakari Knuutila
Sakari Knuutila University of Helsinki
Michal Michal
Michal Michal Charles University
Leif C. Andersson
Leif C. Andersson University of Helsinki
Wael El-Rifai
Wael El-Rifai University of Miami
Lester D. R. Thompson
Lester D. R. Thompson Kaiser Permanente
Lee J. Helman
Lee J. Helman Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Paul S. Meltzer
Paul S. Meltzer National Institutes of Health
Theo Heller
Theo Heller National Institutes of Health

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