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Sarah S. Donaldson

Sarah S. Donaldson

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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108
Citations
39730
World Ranking
984
National Ranking
599

Medicine

D-Index
108
Citations
41368
World Ranking
6023
National Ranking
3220

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, American Medical Women's Association
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Sarah S. Donaldson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a specific focus on subfields such as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

Their research covers several topics, with an emphasis on Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, CAR-T cell therapy research, Tumors and Oncological Cases, Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, and Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment.

Several of their recent papers include:

  • An update on rhabdomyosarcoma risk stratification and the rationale for current and future Children's Oncology Group clinical trials (2022), published in Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • Excellent Outcome for Pediatric Patients With High-Risk Hodgkin Lymphoma Treated With Brentuximab Vedotin and Risk-Adapted Residual Node Radiation (2021), Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Continuing Medical Student Education During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: Development of a Virtual Radiation Oncology Clerkship (2020), Advances in Radiation Oncology
  • Clinical group and modified TNM stage for rhabdomyosarcoma: A review from the Children's Oncology Group (2022), Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma (2021), Pediatric Blood & Cancer

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Susan M. Hiniker
  • Paulina M. Gutkin
  • Rie von Eyben
  • Rajkumar Venkatramani
  • Matthew J. Krasin

Their work has been published often in the following venues:

  • Pediatric Blood & Cancer
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Advances in Radiation Oncology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Practical Radiation Oncology

Sarah S. Donaldson has contributed to book publications including "Radiation Therapy of Benign Diseases" published by Springer Nature in 2023.

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Elizabeth Blackwell Medal, American Medical Women's Association, 2005
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 1999

Best Publications

  • Addition of ifosfamide and etoposide to standard chemotherapy for Ewing's sarcoma and primitive neuroectodermal tumor of bone.

    Holcombe E Grier;Mark D Krailo;Nancy J Tarbell;Michael P Link

  • The Third Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study.

    W Crist;E A Gehan;A H Ragab;P S Dickman

  • Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study-IV: Results for Patients With Nonmetastatic Disease

    William M. Crist;James R. Anderson;Jane L. Meza;Christopher Fryer

  • 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

  • The intergroup rhabdomyosarcoma study-II

    Harold M. Maurer;Harold M. Maurer;Edmund A. Gehan;Mohan Beltangady;William Crist

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Long-term outcomes among adult survivors of childhood central nervous system malignancies in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Qi Liu;Yutaka Yasui;Sujuan Huang

  • Second Neoplasms in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Findings From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Cohort

    Anna T. Meadows;Debra L. Friedman;Joseph P. Neglia;Ann C. Mertens

  • Fertility of Female Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Daniel M. Green;Toana Kawashima;Marilyn Stovall;Wendy Leisenring

  • Cardiac disease following treatment of Hodgkin's disease in children and adolescents.

    S L Hancock;S S Donaldson;R T Hoppe

  • Prognostic Factors and Clinical Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Metastatic Rhabdomyosarcoma—A Report From the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study IV

    John C. Breneman;Elizabeth Lyden;Alberto S. Pappo;Michael P. Link

  • Rhabdomyosarcoma and undifferentiated sarcoma in the first two decades of life: a selective review of intergroup rhabdomyosarcoma study group experience and rationale for Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study V.

    R. Raney;James Anderson;Frederic Barr;Sarah Donaldson

  • Pregnancy outcome of female survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the childhood cancer survivor study☆☆☆★

    Daniel M. Green;John A. Whitton;Marilyn Stovall;Ann C. Mertens

  • Fertility of Male Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Daniel M. Green;Toana Kawashima;Marilyn Stovall;Wendy Leisenring

  • Medical Care in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Paul C. Nathan;Mark L. Greenberg;Kirsten K. Ness;Melissa M. Hudson

  • Vincristine, actinomycin, and cyclophosphamide compared with vincristine, actinomycin, and cyclophosphamide alternating with vincristine, topotecan, and cyclophosphamide for intermediate-risk rhabdomyosarcoma: children's oncology group study D9803.

    Carola A.S. Arndt;Julie A. Stoner;Douglas S. Hawkins;David A. Rodeberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Link
Michael P. Link Stanford University
Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Marilyn Stovall
Marilyn Stovall The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Suzanne L. Wolden
Suzanne L. Wolden Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wendy Leisenring
Wendy Leisenring Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Nancy J. Tarbell
Nancy J. Tarbell Harvard University
Joseph P. Neglia
Joseph P. Neglia University of Minnesota
Charles A. Sklar
Charles A. Sklar Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Melissa M. Hudson
Melissa M. Hudson St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
David M. Parham
David M. Parham Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

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