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Ronald Ghossein is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research activity encompasses extensive contributions primarily in the field of medicine, with 273 publications. The main subfields of study include surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, as well as pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The research of Ronald Ghossein focuses on several key topics, particularly related to thyroid and head and neck cancers. The primary areas of work include:

  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Ear and Head Tumors

The scientist has published articles in various specialized journals, evidencing repeated contributions to certain venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Histopathology
  • Thyroid
  • Modern Pathology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • The American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Significant recent papers authored by Ronald Ghossein cover a range of topics within thyroid cancer research and related areas:

  • "Papillary Thyroid Cancer-Aggressive Variants and Impact on Management: A Narrative Review", 2020, Advances in Therapy
  • "Dissecting Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Comprehensive Clinical, Histologic, Immunophenotypic, and Molecular Study of 360 Cases", 2020, Thyroid
  • "SWI/SNF Complex Mutations Promote Thyroid Tumor Progression and Insensitivity to Redifferentiation Therapies", 2020, Cancer Discovery
  • "American Head and Neck Society Endocrine Surgery Section and International Thyroid Oncology Group consensus statement on mutational testing in thyroid cancer: Defining advanced thyroid cancer and its targeted treatment", 2022, Head & Neck
  • "Primary high-grade non-anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: a retrospective study of 364 cases", 2021, Histopathology

Among their frequent collaborators are Bin Xu, Nora Katabi, Ian Ganly, James A. Fagin, and R. Michael Tuttle, with collaboration counts ranging from 29 to 90 publications with each respective co-author.

Ronald Ghossein has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a work titled "Tumors of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands", scheduled for 2025 under the publisher American Registry of Pathology Arlington, Virginia eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

    Francisco Sanchez-Vega;Marco Mina;Joshua Armenia;Walid K. Chatila

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer.

    Katherine A. Hoadley;Christina Yau;Christina Yau;Toshinori Hinoue;Denise M. Wolf

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Nomenclature Revision for Encapsulated Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Paradigm Shift to Reduce Overtreatment of Indolent Tumors

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Raja R. Seethala;Giovanni Tallini;Zubair W. Baloch

  • Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

    Alison M. Taylor;Alison M. Taylor;Juliann Shih;Gavin Ha;Gavin Ha;Galen F. Gao

  • Genomic and transcriptomic hallmarks of poorly differentiated and anaplastic thyroid cancers

    Iñigo Landa;Tihana Ibrahimpasic;Laura Boucai;Rileen Sinha

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Selumetinib-Enhanced Radioiodine Uptake in Advanced Thyroid Cancer

    Alan L. Ho;Ravinder K. Grewal;Rebecca Leboeuf;Eric J. Sherman

  • Pathogenic Germline Variants in 10,389 Adult Cancers

    Kuan-Lin Huang;R Jay Mashl;Yige Wu;Deborah I Ritter

  • Estimating risk of recurrence in differentiated thyroid cancer after total thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine remnant ablation: using response to therapy variables to modify the initial risk estimates predicted by the new American Thyroid Association staging system.

    R. Michael Tuttle;Hernan Tala;Jatin Shah;Rebecca Leboeuf

  • Mutational Profile Of Advanced Primary and Metastatic Radioactive Iodine-Refractory Thyroid Cancers Reveals Distinct Pathogenetic Roles for BRAF, PIK3CA and AKT1

    Julio C. Ricarte-Filho;Mabel Ryder;Dhananjay A. Chitale;Michael Rivera

  • Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (ARTICLE (2018) 173(2) (371–385), (S009286741830237X), (10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.060))

    Matthew H. Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a clinicopathologic study of a problematic entity.

    Jeffrey Liu;Bhuvanesh Singh;Giovanni Tallini;Diane L. Carlson

  • Molecular genotyping of papillary thyroid carcinoma follicular variant according to its histological subtypes (encapsulated vs infiltrative) reveals distinct BRAF and RAS mutation patterns

    Michael Rivera;Julio Ricarte-Filho;Jeff Knauf;Ashok Shaha

  • Frequent Somatic TERT Promoter Mutations in Thyroid Cancer: Higher Prevalence in Advanced Forms of the Disease

    Iñigo Landa;Ian Ganly;Timothy A. Chan;Norisato Mitsutake

  • Increased density of tumor associated macrophages is associated with decreased survival in advanced thyroid cancer

    Mabel Ryder;Ronald A Ghossein;Julio C M Ricarte-Filho;Jeffrey A Knauf

  • Natural History and Tumor Volume Kinetics of Papillary Thyroid Cancers During Active Surveillance

    R. Michael Tuttle;James A. Fagin;Gerald Minkowitz;Richard J. Wong

  • Small-molecule MAPK inhibitors restore radioiodine incorporation in mouse thyroid cancers with conditional BRAF activation

    Debyani Chakravarty;Elmer Santos;Mabel M Ryder;Jeffrey A. Knauf

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashok R. Shaha
Ashok R. Shaha Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ian Ganly
Ian Ganly Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
James A. Fagin
James A. Fagin Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
R. Michael Tuttle
R. Michael Tuttle Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jatin P. Shah
Jatin P. Shah Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Snehal G. Patel
Snehal G. Patel Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bhuvanesh Singh
Bhuvanesh Singh Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Richard J. Wong
Richard J. Wong Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Luc G. T. Morris
Luc G. T. Morris Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Timothy A. Chan
Timothy A. Chan Cleveland Clinic

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