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Stephen T. Sonis is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their main field of study is Medicine, with a total of 205 publications. The primary subfields include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Otorhinolaryngology, Periodontics, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research focuses on topics related to oral health in cancer treatment, with 100 publications addressing this area. Additional main research topics include Head and Neck Cancer Studies, Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Oral Health Pathology and Treatment, Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies, Effects of Radiation Exposure, and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Alessandro Villa, Voichita Bar-Ad, Carryn M. Anderson, Deborah Saunders, and Neal Dunlap.

Popular venues for publishing their research include:

  • Supportive Care in Cancer
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Frontiers in Oral Health
  • Cancers

Representative recent publications by Stephen T. Sonis are:

  • The broadening scope of oral mucositis and oral ulcerative mucosal toxicities of anticancer therapies, 2021, CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
  • Photobiomodulation therapy in management of cancer therapy-induced side effects: WALT position paper 2022, 2022, Frontiers in Oncology
  • Prediction of mucositis risk secondary to cancer therapy: a systematic review of current evidence and call to action, 2020, Supportive Care in Cancer
  • Oral lichen planus: comparative efficacy and treatment costs-a systematic review, 2022, BMC Oral Health
  • Concordance of the WHO, RTOG, and CTCAE v4.0 grading scales for the evaluation of oral mucositis associated with chemoradiation therapy for the treatment of oral and oropharyngeal cancers, 2021, Supportive Care in Cancer

Best Publications

  • Perspectives on cancer therapy-induced mucosal injury: pathogenesis, measurement, epidemiology, and consequences for patients

    Stephen T. Sonis;Linda S. Elting;Dorothy Keefe;Douglas E. Peterson

  • The pathobiology of mucositis.

    Stephen T. Sonis

  • MASCC/ISOO clinical practice guidelines for the management of mucositis secondary to cancer therapy

    Rajesh V. Lalla;Joanne Bowen;Andrei Barasch;Linda Elting

  • MASCC/ISOO clinical practice guidelines for the management of mucositis secondary to cancer therapy: MASCC/ISOO Mucositis Guidelines

    Rajesh V. Lalla;Joanne Bowen;Andrei Barasch;Linda Elting

  • Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of cancer therapy–induced oral and gastrointestinal mucositis†

    Edward B. Rubenstein;Douglas E. Peterson;Mark Schubert;Dorothy Keefe

  • Updated clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of mucositis

    Dorothy M. Keefe;Mark M. Schubert;Linda S. Elting;Stephen T. Sonis

  • Mucositis as a biological process: a new hypothesis for the development of chemotherapy-induced stomatotoxicity

    S.T Sonis

  • Oral Mucositis and the Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation

    Stephen T. Sonis;Gerry Oster;Hank Fuchs;Lisa Bellm

  • Management of Oral Mucositis in Patients Who Have Cancer

    Rajesh V. Lalla;Stephen T. Sonis;Douglas E. Peterson

  • MUCOSITIS: THE IMPACT, BIOLOGY AND THERAPEUTIC OPPORTUNITIES OF ORAL MUCOSITIS

    Stephen T. Sonis

  • Validation of a new scoring system for the assessment of clinical trial research of oral mucositis induced by radiation or chemotherapy

    Stephen T. Sonis;June P. Eilers;Joel B. Epstein;Francis G. LeVeque

  • Pathobiology of oral mucositis: novel insights and opportunities.

    Stephen T Sonis

  • A biological approach to mucositis.

    Stephen T Sonis

  • Oral mucositis in patients undergoing radiation treatment for head and neck carcinoma

    Montserrat Vera-Llonch;Gerry Oster;May Hagiwara;Stephen Sonis

  • Patient-reported measurements of oral mucositis in head and neck cancer patients treated with radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy: Demonstration of increased frequency, severity, resistance to palliation, and impact on quality of life

    Linda S. Elting;Dorothy M. Keefe;Stephen T. Sonis;Adam S. Garden

  • A longitudinal study of oral ulcerative mucositis in bone marrow transplant recipients

    Sook-Bin Woo;Stephen T. Sonis;Michael M. Monopoli;Andrew L. Sonis

  • The role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in cancer treatment-induced alimentary tract mucositis: Pathobiology, animal models and cytotoxic drugs

    Richard M. Logan;Andrea M. Stringer;Andrea M. Stringer;Joanne M. Bowen;Joanne M. Bowen;Ann S.-J. Yeoh;Ann S.-J. Yeoh

  • Defining mechanisms of action of interleukin-11 on the progression of radiation-induced oral mucositis in hamsters.

    S.T Sonis;R.L Peterson;L.J Edwards;C.A Lucey

  • Oral mucositis in cancer therapy.

    Stephen T Sonis

  • Emerging evidence on the pathobiology of mucositis

    Noor Al-Dasooqi;Stephen T. Sonis;Joanne M. Bowen;Emma Bateman

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel B. Epstein
Joel B. Epstein Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Linda S. Elting
Linda S. Elting The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Joseph H. Antin
Joseph H. Antin Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Robert J. Soiffer
Robert J. Soiffer Harvard University
Edwin P. Alyea
Edwin P. Alyea Harvard University
Gerry Oster
Gerry Oster Chestnut Hill College
Robert I. Haddad
Robert I. Haddad Harvard University
John M. Buatti
John M. Buatti University of Iowa
Vincent T. Ho
Vincent T. Ho Harvard University
Corey Cutler
Corey Cutler Harvard University

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