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Penny K. Sneed is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a notable number of publications centered around genetics, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, neurology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their research topics include:

  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Meningioma and schwannoma management
  • Brain Metastases and Treatment
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
  • Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases
  • Head and Neck Surgical Oncology

They have published extensively in a variety of venues, including:

  • Neuro-Oncology (11 publications)
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics (8 publications)
  • Nature Communications (4 publications)
  • Neurosurgery (3 publications)
  • Journal of neurosurgery (3 publications)

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Meningioma DNA methylation groups identify biological drivers and therapeutic vulnerabilities," 2022, Nature Genetics
  • "Multiplatform genomic profiling and magnetic resonance imaging identify mechanisms underlying intratumor heterogeneity in meningioma," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Targeted gene expression profiling predicts meningioma outcomes and radiotherapy responses," 2023, Nature Medicine
  • "A Prognostic Gene-Expression Signature and Risk Score for Meningioma Recurrence After Resection," 2020, Neurosurgery
  • "Adverse radiation effect and freedom from progression following repeat stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases," 2022, Journal of neurosurgery

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Penny K. Sneed include:

  • Steve Braunstein
  • David R. Raleigh
  • Harish N. Vasudevan
  • Lauren Boreta
  • Philip V. Theodosopoulos

Best Publications

  • Summary Report on the Graded Prognostic Assessment: An Accurate and Facile Diagnosis-Specific Tool to Estimate Survival for Patients With Brain Metastases

    Paul W. Sperduto;Norbert Kased;David Roberge;Zhiyuan Xu

  • Diagnosis-Specific Prognostic Factors, Indexes, and Treatment Outcomes for Patients With Newly Diagnosed Brain Metastases: A Multi-Institutional Analysis of 4,259 Patients

    Paul W. Sperduto;Samuel T. Chao;Penny K. Sneed;Xianghua Luo

  • A multi-institutional experience with stereotactic radiosurgery for solitary brain metastasis

    John C Flickinger;Douglas Kondziolka;L Dade Lunsford;Robert J Coffey

  • Estimating Survival in Patients With Lung Cancer and Brain Metastases: An Update of the Graded Prognostic Assessment for Lung Cancer Using Molecular Markers (Lung-molGPA)

    Paul W. Sperduto;T. Jonathan Yang;Kathryn Beal;Hubert Pan

  • A multi-institutional review of radiosurgery alone vs. radiosurgery with whole brain radiotherapy as the initial management of brain metastases.

    Penny K Sneed;John H Suh;Steven J Goetsch;Seema N Sanghavi

  • Survival benefit of hyperthermia in a prospective randomized trial of brachytherapy boost +/- hyperthermia for glioblastoma multiforme.

    Penny K. Sneed;Paul R. Stauffer;Michael W. McDermott;Chris J. Diederich

  • Radiosurgery for brain metastases: is whole brain radiotherapy necessary?

    Penny K Sneed;Kathleen R Lamborn;Julie M Forstner;Michael W McDermott

  • Phase II Study of Erlotinib Plus Temozolomide During and After Radiation Therapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme or Gliosarcoma

    Michael D. Prados;Susan M. Chang;Nicholas Butowski;Rebecca DeBoer

  • Effect of Tumor Subtype on Survival and the Graded Prognostic Assessment for Patients With Breast Cancer and Brain Metastases

    Paul W. Sperduto;Norbert Kased;David Roberge;Zhiyuan Xu

  • MR-spectroscopy guided target delineation for high-grade gliomas.

    Andrea Pirzkall;Tracy R McKnight;Edward E Graves;Mark P Carol

  • EGFR overexpression and radiation response in glioblastoma multiforme.

    Fred G. Barker;Fred G. Barker;Martha L. Simmons;Susan M. Chang;Michael D. Prados

  • The Brain Tumor Cooperative Group NIH Trial 87-01: a randomized comparison of surgery, external radiotherapy, and carmustine versus surgery, interstitial radiotherapy boost, external radiation therapy, and carmustine.

    Robert G. Selker;William R. Shapiro;Peter Burger;Margaret S. Blackwood

  • Radiosurgery for brain metastases: relationship of dose and pattern of enhancement to local control.

    Cheng-Ying Shiau;Cheng-Ying Shiau;Penny K. Sneed;Hui-Kuo G. Shu;Kathleen R. Lamborn

  • Adverse radiation effect after stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases: incidence, time course, and risk factors

    Penny K. Sneed;Joe Mendez;Johanna G. M. Vemer-van den Hoek;Zachary A. Seymour

  • High activity iodine-125 interstitial implant for gliomas

    Cindy O. Charfen;Penny K. Sneed;William M. Wara;David A. Larson

  • Distinguishing Recurrent Intra-Axial Metastatic Tumor from Radiation Necrosis Following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Using Dynamic Susceptibility-Weighted Contrast-Enhanced Perfusion MR Imaging

    R.F. Barajas;J.S. Chang;P.K. Sneed;M.R. Segal

  • Radiosurgery for patients with brain metastases: a multi-institutional analysis, stratified by the RTOG recursive partitioning analysis method

    Seema N Sanghavi;Saranarendra S Miranpuri;Richard Chappell;John M Buatti

  • Dose conformity of gamma knife radiosurgery and risk factors for complications.

    Jean L Nakamura;Lynn J Verhey;Vernon Smith;Paula L Petti

  • Patterns of recurrence of glioblastoma multiforme after external irradiation followed by implant boost.

    Penny K. Sneed;Philip H. Gutin;David A. Larson;Mary K. Malec

  • External irradiation followed by an interstitial high activity iodine-125 implant “boost” in the initial treatment of malignant gliomas: NCOG study 6G-82-2 gliomas: NCOG study 6H-82-2

    Philip H. Gutin;Michael D. Prados;Theodore L. Phillips;William M. Wara

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. McDermott
Michael W. McDermott University of California, San Francisco
David A. Larson
David A. Larson University of California, San Francisco
William M. Wara
William M. Wara Kaiser Permanente
Philip H. Gutin
Philip H. Gutin Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kathleen R. Lamborn
Kathleen R. Lamborn University of California, San Francisco
Michael D. Prados
Michael D. Prados University of California, San Francisco
Susan M. Chang
Susan M. Chang University of California, San Francisco
Theodore L. Phillips
Theodore L. Phillips University of California, San Francisco
Minesh P. Mehta
Minesh P. Mehta University of Maryland, Baltimore
Paul D. Brown
Paul D. Brown Mayo Clinic

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