List of works by Sharon H. Giordano

A comparison of patient-centered economic and clinical outcomes of post-mastectomy breast reconstruction between obese and non-obese patients

scientific article

A method to predict breast cancer stage using Medicare claims

scientific article

A phase 1 study of weekly everolimus (RAD001) in combination with docetaxel in patients with metastatic breast cancer

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

A population-based study of the quality of care in the diagnosis of large (≥5 cm) soft tissue sarcomas.

scientific article published in October 2012

A review of the diagnosis and management of male breast cancer

scientific article

Access to Accredited Cancer Hospitals Within Federal Exchange Plans Under the Affordable Care Act.

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

Acute Myeloid Leukemia After Adjuvant Breast Cancer Therapy in Older Women: Understanding Risk

scientific article published on 30 July 2007

Acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome after adjuvant chemotherapy: A population-based study among older breast cancer patients.

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Adherence to national guidelines for antiemesis prophylaxis in patients undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer

scientific article published on 04 December 2012

Adherence to treatment guidelines and survival for older patients with stage II or III colon cancer in Texas from 2001 through 2011.

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Women With Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update on Ovarian Suppression

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Adjuvant endocrine therapy for women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: american society of clinical oncology clinical practice guideline focused update

scientific article

Adjuvant systemic therapy for male breast carcinoma

scientific article published in December 2005

Adoption of intensity-modulated radiation therapy for breast cancer in the United States

scientific article

American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline: update on adjuvant endocrine therapy for women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer

scientific article

Anastrozole-associated joint pain and other symptoms in patients with breast cancer

scientific article published on March 2013

Anthracycline regimen adherence in older patients with early breast cancer

scientific article published on 27 February 2012

Association Between Geographic Access to Cancer Care and Receipt of Radiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Association Between Geographic Access to Cancer Care, Insurance, and Receipt of Chemotherapy: Geographic Distribution of Oncologists and Travel Distance.

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Association Between Quality of Care for Breast Cancer and Health Insurance Exchange Coverage: An Analysis of Use of Radiation Therapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery.

scientific article published in October 2017

Association between financial burden and adjuvant hormonal therapy adherence and persistent use for privately insured women aged 18-64 years in BCBS of Texas.

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Association between treatment with brachytherapy vs whole-breast irradiation and subsequent mastectomy, complications, and survival among older women with invasive breast cancer

scientific article

Association of Insurance Status with the Use of Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Women with Breast Cancer

scientific article

BRCA1 and BRCA2 Testing Among Young Breast Cancer Survivors.

scientific article published in May 2016

BRCAPRO 6.0 Model Validation in Male Patients Presenting for BRCA Testing.

scientific article

Benefit of adjuvant brachytherapy versus external beam radiation for early breast cancer: impact of patient stratification on breast preservation

scientific article

Bioscore: A Staging System for Breast Cancer Patients that Reflects the Prognostic Significance of Underlying Tumor Biology

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Biphasic metaplastic sarcomatoid carcinoma of the breast

scientific article published on 9 February 2006

Brachytherapy for Accelerated Partial-Breast Irradiation: A Rapidly Emerging Technology in Breast Cancer Care

article by Grace L. Smith et al published 10 January 2011 in Journal of Clinical Oncology

Breast Cancer Version 2.2015.

scientific article

Breast Cancer in Men

Breast Cancer, Version 4.2017, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.

scientific article published in March 2018

Breast Cancer: Noninvasive and Special Situations

article

Breast cancer in men.

scientific article

Breast cancer treatment guidelines in older women.

scientific article published on February 2005

Breast cancer version 3.2014.

scientific article

Breast cancer, version 3.2013: featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

scientific article published on July 2013

Breast carcinoma and antihypertensive therapy ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Breast carcinoma in men: a population-based study

scientific article

Breast-conserving surgery in older patients with invasive breast cancer: current patterns of treatment across the United States

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Cardiac Monitoring During Adjuvant Trastuzumab-Based Chemotherapy Among Older Patients With Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Cardiac morbidity of adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer.

scientific article published on 12 September 2005

Cerebrovascular disease risk in older head and neck cancer patients after radiotherapy

scientific article published on 25 August 2008

Characterization of male breast cancer: Results of the EORTC 10085/TBCRC/BIG/NABCG International Male Breast Cancer Program.

scientific article published on 28 October 2017

Clinical and Economic Evaluation of Treatment Strategies for T1N0 Anal Canal Cancer

scientific article

Clinical impact of delaying initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Comparative analysis of sentinel lymph node operation in male and female breast cancer patients.

scientific article published on 23 August 2006

Comparative effectiveness of platinum-based chemotherapy versus taxane and other regimens for ovarian cancer

scientific article published on 10 January 2013

Comparative effectiveness research in cancer with observational data

scientific article

Completion of adjuvant radiation therapy among women with breast cancer

scientific article

Complications After Mastectomy and Immediate Breast Reconstruction for Breast Cancer: A Claims-Based Analysis

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Complications associated with erythropoietin-stimulating agents in patients with metastatic breast cancer: a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare study

scientific article

Congestive Heart Failure in Older Women Treated With Adjuvant Anthracycline Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 30 July 2007

Contemporary Toxicity Profile of Breast Brachytherapy Versus External Beam Radiation After Lumpectomy for Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Cost and Complications of Local Therapies for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

DCIS Margins and Breast Conservation: MD Anderson Cancer Center Multidisciplinary Practice Guidelines and Outcomes

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Decline in the use of anthracyclines for breast cancer

scientific article

Delayed Initiation of Adjuvant Chemotherapy Among Patients With Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Delayed initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Determinants of practice patterns and quality gaps in lung cancer staging and diagnosis

scientific article published in May 2014

Development and validation of algorithms to differentiate ductal carcinoma in situ from invasive breast cancer within administrative claims data.

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Discerning the survival advantage among patients with prostate cancer who undergo radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy: The limitations of cancer registry data

scientific article

ESO-ESMO 2nd international consensus guidelines for advanced breast cancer (ABC2)†

scientific article

Effect of adjuvant/neoadjuvant trastuzumab on clinical outcomes in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Effectiveness of radiation for prevention of mastectomy in older breast cancer patients treated with conservative surgery

scientific article published on 13 August 2012

Efficacy of anastrozole in male breast cancer

scientific article published in June 2002

End-of-Life Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Patients With Ovarian Cancer

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Erratum to: Rates of BRCA1/2 mutation testing among young survivors of breast cancer.

scientific article

Estimating regimen-specific costs of chemotherapy for breast cancer: Observational cohort study

scientific article published on 10 October 2016

First do no harm: population-based study shows non-evidence-based trastuzumab prescription may harm elderly women with breast cancer

scientific article

Granulocyte growth factor use in elderly patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the United States: adherence to guidelines and comparative effectiveness

scientific article

Has racial difference in cause-specific death improved in older patients with late-stage breast cancer?

scientific article

Hazard of recurrence among women after primary breast cancer treatment--a 10-year follow-up using data from SEER-Medicare

scientific article

Impact of Time from Completion of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy to Surgery on Survival Outcomes in Breast Cancer Patients

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Impact of a scientific presentation on community treatment patterns for primary breast cancer

scientific article published on March 2006

Impact of body mass index and operative approach on surgical morbidity and costs in women with endometrial carcinoma and hyperplasia

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Impact of diabetes mellitus on complications and outcomes of adjuvant chemotherapy in older patients with breast cancer

scientific article published on 23 March 2009

Impact of evidence-based clinical guidelines on the adoption of postmastectomy radiation in older women

scientific article published on 27 June 2011

Improvement in breast cancer outcomes over time: are older women missing out?

scientific article

In Reply

Incidence and Outcome of Breast Biopsy Procedures During Follow-up After Treatment for Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Incidence, treatment costs, and complications of lymphedema after breast cancer among women of working age: a 2-year follow-up study.

scientific article published on 16 March 2009

Incorporating Tumor Characteristics to the American Joint Committee on Cancer Breast Cancer Staging System

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Increased Utilization of Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) Imaging and Its Economic Impact for Patients Diagnosed With Bladder Cancer

scientific article

Increasing use of advanced radiation therapy technologies in the last 30 days of life among patients dying as a result of cancer in the United States

scientific article

Inflammatory breast cancer: clinical progress and the main problems that must be addressed

scientific article

Influence of Age on Guideline-Concordant Cancer Care for Elderly Patients in the United States

scientific article

Initiation of and adherence to tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitor therapy among elderly women with ductal carcinoma in situ

scientific article published on 25 October 2016

Invasive Breast Cancer

article

Invasive Breast Cancer Version 1.2016, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology

article

Is breast cancer survival improving?

scientific article

Late gastrointestinal toxicity after radiation for prostate cancer

article

Leuprolide Acetate Plus Aromatase Inhibition for Male Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Limits of observational data in determining outcomes from cancer therapy

scientific article

Local Recurrence or Cardiovascular Disease: Pay Now or Later

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Location of Receipt of Initial Treatment and Outcomes in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors

scientific article

Locoregional Control of Clinically Diagnosed Multifocal or Multicentric Breast Cancer After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Locoregional Therapy

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Long-Term Survival Outcomes of Cancer-Directed Surgery for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Propensity Score Matching Analysis

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Long-term Patient-Reported Outcomes in Older Breast Cancer Survivors: A Population-Based Survey Study.

scientific article published on 9 December 2017

Low Rate of Cervical Cancer Screening among Women with Hematologic Malignancies after Stem Cell Transplant

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Lumpectomy in Male Patients with Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 01 August 2013

Male Breast Cancer: It’s Time for Evidence Instead of Extrapolation

article

Male breast cancer according to tumor subtype and race: a population-based study

scientific article published on 22 January 2013

Male breast cancer precursor lesions: analysis of the EORTC 10085/TBCRC/BIG/NABCG International Male Breast Cancer Program

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Mammography Capacity

scientific article published on 12 June 2009

Mammography before diagnosis among women age 80 years and older with breast cancer

scientific article published on 21 April 2008

Management of breast cancer in elderly individuals: recommendations of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology

scientific article published on December 2007

Metastatic breast cancer, version 1.2012: featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

scientific article published on July 2012

Metformin and pathologic complete responses to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in diabetic patients with breast cancer

scientific article

Muddy water? Variation in reporting receipt of breast cancer radiation therapy by population-based tumor registries

scientific article

NCCN Guidelines Insights Breast Cancer, Version 1.2016.

scientific article published in December 2015

NCCN Guidelines Insights: Breast Cancer, Version 1.2017.

scientific article published in April 2017

NCCN Guidelines Updates: Breast Cancer

article

Nomogram to predict pathologic complete response in HER2-positive breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant systemic therapy

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Nomogram to predict the benefit of radiation for older patients with breast cancer treated with conservative surgery

scientific article

Oncology Patient Perceptions of the Use of Ionizing Radiation in Diagnostic Imaging

scientific article

Open-label randomized clinical trial of standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel followed by FEC versus the combination of paclitaxel and everolimus followed by FEC in women with triple receptor-negative breast cancer†.

scientific article

Other primary malignancies in breast cancer patients treated with breast conserving surgery and radiation therapy

scientific article published on 06 December 2012

Outcomes and cost of outpatient or inpatient management of 712 patients with febrile neutropenia

scientific article

Outcomes in patients with early-stage breast cancer who underwent a 21-gene expression assay

scientific article published on 15 February 2017

Overall Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality of Patients With Stage T1a,bN0M0 Breast Carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Overweight, obesity, diabetes, and risk of breast cancer: interlocking pieces of the puzzle

scientific article

Paclitaxel in Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Pathologic complete response in breast cancer patients receiving anthracycline- and taxane-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy: evaluating the effect of race/ethnicity

scientific article

Pathological characterisation of male breast cancer: Results of the EORTC 10085/TBCRC/BIG/NABCG International Male Breast Cancer Program

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

Patterns of treatment for early stage breast cancers at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1997 to 2004

scientific article published on May 2009

Physician variation in management of low-risk prostate cancer: a population-based cohort study

scientific article

Population-based assessment of racial/ethnic differences in utilization of radical cystectomy for patients diagnosed with bladder cancer

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction and its subsequent complications: a comparison between obese and non-obese women with breast cancer

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Potentially inappropriate medication use in older patients with breast and colorectal cancer.

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

Predictors of invasive breast cancer in patients with an initial diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ: A guide to selective use of sentinel lymph node biopsy in management of ductal carcinoma in situ

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Predictors of trimodality therapy and trends in therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma

scientific article published on 2 December 2017

Preferences for Communicating about Breast Cancer Screening Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Older Women.

scientific article

Problems in transition and quality of care: perspectives of breast cancer survivors

scientific article

Prognosis of women with metastatic breast cancer by HER2 status and trastuzumab treatment: an institutional-based review

scientific article

Quality Gaps and Comparative Effectiveness of Management Strategies For Recurrent Malignant Pleural Effusions.

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Quality gaps and comparative effectiveness in lung cancer staging and diagnosis

scientific article published in February 2014

Quality of life and symptoms in male breast cancer survivors

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

Racial disparities in guideline-concordant cancer care and mortality in the United States

Racial disparities in the use of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery: a national Medicare study

scientific article published in February 2010

Radiation modality use and cardiopulmonary mortality risk in elderly patients with esophageal cancer

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

Radiation use and long-term survival in breast cancer patients with T1, T2 primary tumors and one to three positive axillary lymph nodes

scientific article published on 30 January 2008

Radiotherapy in Older Women With Low-Risk Breast Cancer: Why Did Practice Not Change?

scientific article published on 05 March 2012

Randomized Clinical Trials and Observational Studies: Is There a Battle?

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Rates of BRCA1/2 mutation testing among young survivors of breast cancer

scientific article

Recommendations on disease management for patients with advanced human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer and brain metastases: American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline.

scientific article

Reduced feeding tube duration with intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancer: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare Analysis

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Referral to medical oncology: a crucial step in the treatment of older patients with stage III colon cancer

scientific article published in October 2006

Regional differences in recommended cancer treatment for the elderly.

scientific article

Reply to G. Ferretti et al

Reply to O. Kaidar-Person et al

Resistance to Discontinuing Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women: A Qualitative Study.

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

Retrospective review of male breast cancer patients: analysis of tamoxifen-related side-effects

scientific article

Risk of cardiac death after adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer

scientific article published on March 2005

Risk of hospitalisation after primary treatment for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 25 August 2016

Risk of hospitalization according to chemotherapy regimen in early-stage breast cancer

scientific article

Risk of hypothyroidism in older breast cancer patients treated with radiation

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Risk of subsequent dementia diagnoses does not vary by types of adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer

scientific article

Selection of Optimal Adjuvant Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy for Early Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline Update

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Short-term mortality in older patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer

scientific article

Significantly higher pathologic complete remission rate after neoadjuvant therapy with trastuzumab, paclitaxel, and epirubicin chemotherapy: results of a randomized trial in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive operable breast cancer

scientific article published on 28 February 2005

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Breast

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Supraclavicular radiation for breast cancer does not increase the 10-year risk of stroke

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Surgeon influence on use of needle biopsy in patients with breast cancer: a national medicare study

scientific article

Survival advantage in Medicare patients receiving drug-eluting stents compared with bare metal stents: real or artefactual?

scientific article

Survival in older women with early stage breast cancer receiving low-dose bisphosphonates or denosumab

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Systemic therapy for patients with advanced human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline

scientific article published on 05 May 2014

The association of breast cancer and meningioma in men and women.

scientific article published in September 2009

The role of the surgeon in whether patients with lymph node-positive colon cancer see a medical oncologist

scientific article published on March 2007

Time to remove the subspecialty blinders: breast cancer does not exist in isolation

scientific article

Time to treatment as a quality metric in lung cancer: Staging studies, time to treatment, and patient survival

scientific article published on 23 May 2015

Total Lifetime and Cancer-related Costs for Elderly Patients Diagnosed With Anal Cancer in the United States

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

Trastuzumab-related cardiotoxicity among older patients with breast cancer

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

Treatment Patterns, Outcomes, and Costs for Bowel Obstruction in Ovarian Cancer

scientific article published on June 2017

Trends and variation in use of breast reconstruction in patients with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy in the United States

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Trends for Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Is Survival Improving?

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Trends in Local Therapy Utilization and Cost for Early-Stage Breast Cancer in Older Women: Implications for Payment and Policy Reform

scientific article published on 6 February 2016

Trends in and outcomes from sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) alone vs. SLNB with axillary lymph node dissection for node-positive breast cancer patients: experience from the SEER database

scientific article

Trends in survival over the past two decades among white and black patients with newly diagnosed stage IV breast cancer

scientific article published on 25 August 2008

Trends in the quality of treatment for patients with intact cervical cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2011.

scientific article published in June 2015

Triple receptor-negative breast cancer: the effect of race on response to primary systemic treatment and survival outcomes

scientific article published in December 2008

Underuse of surgical resection among elderly patients with early-stage pancreatic cancer

scientific article

Underutilization of Radical Cystectomy Among Patients Diagnosed with Clinical Stage T2 Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer

scientific article

Update on locally advanced breast cancer

scientific article published on January 2003

Use and Outcomes of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Older Women With Breast Cancer

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Use of ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Primary Breast Cancer Outcomes

scientific article published on 10 August 2013

Use of intravenous bisphosphonates in older women with breast cancer

scientific article

Use of radiation therapy in the last 30 days of life among a large population-based cohort of elderly patients in the United States.

scientific article

Utilization Patterns and Trends in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Mutation Testing Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Lung Cancer

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

Utilization and Outcomes of Breast Brachytherapy in Younger Women

scientific article

Validation Study of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Eighth Edition Prognostic Stage Compared With the Anatomic Stage in Breast Cancer

scientific article

Value-Based Breast Cancer Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Defining Patient-Centered Outcomes

scientific article

Variation in Intensity and Costs of Care by Payer and Race for Patients Dying of Cancer in Texas: An Analysis of Registry-linked Medicaid, Medicare, and Dually Eligible Claims Data

scientific article published on July 2015

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