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Overview

Yutaka Yasui is affiliated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States and has contributed extensively to pediatric oncology and related medical fields. The primary area of their research involves Medicine, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

Their work addresses key topics including:

  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
  • Chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Yasui has published in a range of journals with notable frequency. The most common publication venues include:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Cancer Research
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JAMA Network Open

Frequent collaborators in Yasui's research are:

  • Gregory T. Armstrong
  • Leslie L. Robison
  • Melissa M. Hudson
  • Kirsten K. Ness
  • Kevin C. Oeffinger

Significant recent publications by Yasui include:

  • St. Jude Cloud: A Pediatric Cancer Genomic Data-Sharing Ecosystem (2021) published in Cancer Discovery
  • Major cardiac events for adult survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed between 1970 and 1999: report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort (2020) published in BMJ
  • Life Expectancy of Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Over 3 Decades (2020) published in JAMA Oncology
  • Cohort Profile: The St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study (SJLIFE) for paediatric cancer survivors (2020) published in International Journal of Epidemiology
  • 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) published in The Lancet

Best Publications

  • Phases of Biomarker Development for Early Detection of Cancer

    Margaret Sullivan Pepe;Ruth Etzioni;Ziding Feng;John D. Potter

  • Effects of Aerobic and Resistance Exercise in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

    Kerry S. Courneya;Roanne J. Segal;John R. Mackey;Karen Gelmon

  • Serum Protein Fingerprinting Coupled with a Pattern-matching Algorithm Distinguishes Prostate Cancer from Benign Prostate Hyperplasia and Healthy Men

    Bao Ling Adam;Yinsheng Qu;John W. Davis;Michael D. Ward

  • Health Status of Adult Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Melissa M. Hudson;Ann C. Mertens;Yutaka Yasui;Wendy Hobbie

  • Late mortality experience in five-year survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Ann C. Mertens;Yutaka Yasui;Joseph P. Neglia;John D. Potter

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Effect of exercise on total and intra-abdominal body fat in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled trial.

    Melinda L. Irwin;Yutaka Yasui;Cornelia M. Ulrich;Deborah Bowen

  • High Risk of Subsequent Neoplasms Continues With Extended Follow-Up of Childhood Hodgkin’s Disease: Report From the Late Effects Study Group

    Smita Bhatia;Yutaka Yasui;Leslie L. Robison;Jillian M. Birch

  • The Impact of Serious Illness on Patients' Families

    Kenneth E. Covinsky;Kenneth E. Covinsky;Lee Goldman;E. Francis Cook;Robert Oye

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

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

  • 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

  • Premature menopause in survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study.

    Charles A. Sklar;Ann C. Mertens;Pauline Mitby;John Whitton

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

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

  • 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

  • Unmetabolized Folic Acid in Plasma Is Associated with Reduced Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity among Postmenopausal Women

    Aron M. Troen;Breeana Mitchell;Breeana Mitchell;Bess Sorensen;Mark H. Wener

  • Serum Protein Fingerprinting Coupled with a Pattern-matching Algorithm Distinguishes Prostate Cancer from Benign Prostate Hyperplasia and Healthy Men 1

    Bao-Ling Adam;Yinsheng Qu;John W. Davis;Michael D. Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Namiki Izumi
Namiki Izumi Musashino Red Cross Hospital
Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
John D. Potter
John D. Potter Massey University
Hiroyuki Nakanishi
Hiroyuki Nakanishi Kumamoto University
Cornelia M. Ulrich
Cornelia M. Ulrich University of Utah
Gregory T. Armstrong
Gregory T. Armstrong St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Marilyn Stovall
Marilyn Stovall The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Joseph P. Neglia
Joseph P. Neglia University of Minnesota
Kevin C. Oeffinger
Kevin C. Oeffinger Duke University
Wendy Leisenring
Wendy Leisenring Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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