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Robert F. Gagel is affiliated with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with a focus on oncology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, epidemiology, neurology, and critical care and intensive care medicine.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Neuroendocrine tumor research advances
  • Lung cancer research studies
  • Neuroblastoma research and treatments
  • Cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Ultrasound in clinical applications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robert F. Gagel include Elizabeth G. Grubbs, Ramona Dadu, Mimi I. Hu, Mark Zafereo, and Steven I. Sherman.

The scientist has published in several venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Endocrine Related Cancer
  • Head & Neck
  • Nature Communications
  • Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
  • Recent Results in Cancer Research

Recent papers include:

  • "Endocrine surgery in the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: Surgical Triage Guidelines" (2020, Head & Neck)
  • "Osteocyte CIITA aggravates osteolytic bone lesions in myeloma" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "ONC201 Shows Potent Anticancer Activity Against Medullary Thyroid Cancer via Transcriptional Inhibition of RET, VEGFR2, and IGFBP2" (2021, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics)
  • "HEREDITARY ENDOCRINE TUMOURS: CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES: The state of science in medullary thyroid carcinoma: current challenges and unmet needs" (2020, Endocrine Related Cancer)
  • "HEREDITARY ENDOCRINE TUMOURS: CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES: Early thyroidectomy in multiple endocrine neoplasia: a four decade experience" (2020, Endocrine Related Cancer)

Best Publications

  • CONSENSUS: Guidelines for Diagnosis and Therapy of MEN Type 1 and Type 2

    Maria Luisa Brandi;Robert F. Gagel;Alberto Angeli;John P. Bilezikian

  • Revised American thyroid association guidelines for the management of medullary thyroid carcinoma

    Samuel A Wells;Sylvia L Asa;Henning Dralle;Rossella Elisei

  • Bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw: Report of a Task Force of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research

    Sundeep Khosla;David Burr;Jane Cauley;David W. Dempster

  • Medullary thyroid cancer: management guidelines of the American Thyroid Association.

    Richard T. Kloos;Charis Eng;Douglas B. Evans;Gary L. Francis

  • Vandetanib in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer: A Randomized, Double-Blind Phase III Trial

    Samuel A. Wells;Bruce G. Robinson;Robert F. Gagel;Henning Dralle

  • Mutations in the sulfonylurea receptor gene in familial persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy

    Pamela M. Thomas;Gilbert J. Cote;Nelson Wohllk;Bassem Haddad

  • Frequency and Risk Factors Associated With Osteonecrosis of the Jaw in Cancer Patients Treated With Intravenous Bisphosphonates

    Ana O Hoff;Béla B Toth;Kadri Altundag;Marcella M Johnson

  • ASCO/SSO Review of Current Role of Risk-Reducing Surgery in Common Hereditary Cancer Syndromes

    José G. Guillem;William C. Wood;Jeffrey F. Moley;Andrew Berchuck

  • Activity of XL184 (cabozantinib), an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in patients with medullary thyroid cancer

    Razelle Kurzrock;Steven I. Sherman;Douglas W. Ball;Arlene A. Forastiere

  • Vandetanib for the Treatment of Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Cancer

    Samuel A. Wells;Jessica E. Gosnell;Robert F. Gagel;Jeffrey Moley

  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and Associazione Medici Endocrinologi medical guidelines for clinical practice for the diagnosis and management of thyroid nodules.

    Hossein Gharib;Enrico Papini;Roberto Valcavi;H. Jack Baskin

  • Adrenal cortical carcinoma

    Alan P B Dackiw;Jeffrey E. Lee;Robert F. Gagel;Douglas B. Evans

  • NCCN Task Force Report: Bone Health in Cancer Care

    Julie R. Gralow;J. Sybil Biermann;Azeez Farooki;Monica N. Fornier

  • Calcitonin-secreting cells of the thyroid express an extracellular calcium receptor gene.

    James E. Garrett;Hadassah Tamir;Olga Kifor;Rachel T. Simin

  • RET proto-oncogene: a review and update of genotype-phenotype correlations in hereditary medullary thyroid cancer and associated endocrine tumors.

    Maria A. Kouvaraki;Suzanne E. Shapiro;Nancy D. Perrier;Gilbert J. Cote

  • Safety and efficacy of long-term octreotide therapy of acromegaly: Results of a multicenter trial in 103 patients—a clinical research center study

    C B Newman;S Melmed;P J Snyder;W F Young

  • Parathyroid carcinoma: A 22-year experience

    Naifa L. Busaidy;Camilo Jimenez;Mouhammed Amir Habra;Pamela N. Schultz

  • Genotype-phenotype correlation in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2: report of the International RET Mutation Consortium.

    L. M. Mulligan;D. J. Marsh;B. G. Robinson;I. Schuffenecker

  • Calcitriol: the major humoral mediator of hypercalcemia in Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas

    John F. Seymour;Robert F. Gagel

  • Octreotide as primary therapy for acromegaly

    Connie B. Newman;Shlomo Melmed;Ajax George;Drew Torigian

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilbert J. Cote
Gilbert J. Cote The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Douglas B. Evans
Douglas B. Evans Medical College of Wisconsin
Steven I. Sherman
Steven I. Sherman The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Jeffrey E. Lee
Jeffrey E. Lee The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Armen H. Tashjian
Armen H. Tashjian Harvard University
Adel K. El-Naggar
Adel K. El-Naggar The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Helmuth Goepfert
Helmuth Goepfert The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Zhiqiang Liu
Zhiqiang Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Erich M. Sturgis
Erich M. Sturgis Baylor College of Medicine

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