Research Vision:

Our research focuses on working with large complex health care datasets to provide actionable solutions that improve patient outcomes and overall quality of care.

Research Areas:

• Trends in the incidence, treatment, and survival of cancer

• Improvement of surgical outcomes and healthcare quality

• The relationships between treatment patterns and patient, hospital and physician characteristics

Research Publications:

1. Altman AM, Wirth K, Marmor S, Lou E, Chang K, Hui JYC, Tuttle TM, Jensen EH, Denbo JW. Completion of Adjuvant Chemotherapy After Upfront Surgical Resection for Pancreatic Cancer Is Uncommon Yet Associated With Improved Survival. Ann Surg Oncol. 2019 Nov;26(12):4108-4116. doi: 10.1245/s10434-019-07602-6. Epub 2019 Jul 16. PMID: 31313044.

2. Kizy S, Altman AM, Marmor S, Denbo JW, Jensen EH, Tuttle TM, Hui JYC. 21-gene recurrence score testing in the older population with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. J Geriatr Oncol. 2019 Mar;10(2):322-329. doi: 10.1016/j.jgo.2018.07.006. Epub 2018 Aug 6. PMID: 30093354.

3. Altman AM, Kizy S, Yuan J, Denbo JW, Jensen EH, Hui JYC, Tuttle TM, Marmor S. Distribution of 21-Gene Recurrence Scores in Male Breast Cancer in the United States. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018 Aug;25(8):2296-2302. doi: 10.1245/s10434-018-6566-7. Epub 2018 Jun 15. PMID: 29907942.

4.Marmor S, Hui JYC, Huang JL, Kizy S, Beckwith H, Blaes AH, Rueth NM, Tuttle TM. Relative effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy for invasive lobular compared with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast. Cancer. 2017 Aug 15;123(16):3015-3021. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30699. Epub 2017 Apr 5. PMID: 28382636.

5. Kizy S, Altman AM, Marmor S, Wirth K, Ching Hui JY, Tuttle TM, Denbo JW, Jensen EH. Surgical resection of lymph node positive intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma may not improve survival. HPB (Oxford). 2019 Feb;21(2):235-241. doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2018.08.006. Epub 2018 Sep 28. PMID: 30274882.