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Overview

Wendy Leisenring is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications in pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Other notable areas of study include public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, oncology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their main topics of work cover multiple aspects of childhood cancer and its long-term effects. These topics include:

  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation
  • Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies

Leisenring has contributed to several frequently recognized publication venues, with the highest output in the following journals:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Cancer
  • Blood
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Gregory T. Armstrong
  • Kevin C. Oeffinger
  • Rebecca M. Howell
  • Leslie L. Robison
  • Yutaka Yasui

Their recent papers reflect a strong focus on the survivorship and long-term effects experienced by childhood cancer patients. Selected papers include:

  • "Late mortality and chronic health conditions in long-term survivors of early-adolescent and young adult cancers: a retrospective cohort analysis from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study," 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • "Major cardiac events for adult survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed between 1970 and 1999: report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort," 2020, BMJ
  • "Life Expectancy of Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Over 3 Decades," 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • "Specific causes of excess late mortality and association with modifiable risk factors among survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort," 2023, The Lancet
  • "Cytomegalovirus-specific T-cell reconstitution following letermovir prophylaxis after hematopoietic cell transplantation," 2021, Blood

Best Publications

  • Chronic Health Conditions in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

    Kevin C. Oeffinger;Ann C. Mertens;Charles A. Sklar;Toana Kawashima

  • Estimation of failure probabilities in the presence of competing risks: new representations of old estimators

    Ted A. Gooley;Ted A. Gooley;Wendy Leisenring;Wendy Leisenring;John Crowley;John Crowley;Barry E. Storer;Barry E. Storer

  • Limitations of the Odds Ratio in Gauging the Performance of a Diagnostic, Prognostic, or Screening Marker

    Margaret Sullivan Pepe;Holly Janes;Gary Longton;Wendy Leisenring

  • 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

  • Epidemiology of Aspergillus Infections in a Large Cohort of Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Anna Wald;Wendy Leisenring;Jo Anne Van Burik;Raleigh A. Bowden

  • Stable mixed hematopoietic chimerism in DLA-identical littermate dogs given sublethal total body irradiation before and pharmacological immunosuppression after marrow transplantation.

    Rainer Storb;Cong Yu;John L. Wagner;H. Joachim Deeg

  • Late Mortality Among 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Summary From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Qi Liu;Yutaka Yasui;Joseph P. Neglia

  • Cause-Specific Late Mortality Among 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Ann C. Mertens;Qi Liu;Joseph P. Neglia;Karen Wasilewski

  • 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

  • Late cytomegalovirus disease and mortality in recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants: importance of viral load and T-cell immunity.

    Michael Boeckh;Wendy Leisenring;Stanley R. Riddell;Raleigh A. Bowden

  • Modifiable Risk Factors and Major Cardiac Events Among Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Kevin C. Oeffinger;Yan Chen;Toana Kawashima

  • Bone marrow transplantation for sickle cell disease.

    Walters Mc;Patience M;Leisenring W;Eckman

  • Cytomegalovirus reactivation in critically ill immunocompetent patients.

    Ajit P. Limaye;Katharine A. Kirby;Gordon D. Rubenfeld;Wendy M. Leisenring

  • Graft-versus-host disease after nonmyeloablative versus conventional hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

    Marco Mielcarek;Paul J. Martin;Wendy Leisenring;Mary E. D. Flowers

  • Antifungal therapy decreases sensitivity of the Aspergillus galactomannan enzyme immunoassay.

    Kieren A. Marr;Michel Laverdiere;Anja Gugel;Wendy Leisenring;Wendy Leisenring

  • Reduction in Late Mortality among 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer.

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Yan Chen;Yutaka Yasui;Wendy Leisenring

  • Survivors of Childhood Cancer in the United States: Prevalence and Burden of Morbidity

    Siobhan M. Phillips;Lynne S. Padgett;Wendy M. Leisenring;Kayla K. Stratton

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

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

  • Aging and Risk of Severe, Disabling, Life-Threatening, and Fatal Events in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Toana Kawashima;Wendy Leisenring;Kayla Stratton

  • Itraconazole versus fluconazole for prevention of fungal infections in patients receiving allogeneic stem cell transplants.

    Kieren A. Marr;Fulvio Crippa;Wendy Leisenring;Maggie Hoyle

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Gregory T. Armstrong
Gregory T. Armstrong St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kevin C. Oeffinger
Kevin C. Oeffinger Duke University
Michael Boeckh
Michael Boeckh Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Melissa M. Hudson
Melissa M. Hudson St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Marilyn Stovall
Marilyn Stovall The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kevin R. Krull
Kevin R. Krull St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Janet A. Englund
Janet A. Englund Seattle Children's Hospital
Kirsten K. Ness
Kirsten K. Ness St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Charles A. Sklar
Charles A. Sklar Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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