Publications Print Toesca DAS, Hartsell WF, DeWees TA, Chang JH, Laughlin BS, Voss MM, Dodoo CA, Mohammed N, Keole SR, McGee LA, Gondi V, Sweeney PJ, Dorn P, Sinesi CC, Doh LS, Rich T, Vargas CE. Stereotactic Body Proton Therapy Versus Conventionally Fractionated Proton Therapy for Early Prostate Cancer: A Randomized, Controlled, Phase 3 Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2024 Dec 1; 120 (5):1377-1385 Epub 2024 July 06 View PubMed Mutter RW, Golafshar MA, Buras MR, Comstock BP, Jacobson M, DeWees T, Remmes NB, Francis LN, Boughey JC, Ruddy KJ, McGee LA, Afzal A, Vallow LA, Furutani KM, Deufel CL, Shumway DA, Kim H, Liu MC, Degnim AC, Jakub JW, Vern-Gross TZ, Wong WW, Patel SH, Vargas CE, Stish BJ, Waddle MR, Pafundi DH, Halyard MY, Corbin KS, Hieken TJ, Park SS. Dose Deintensified 3-Day Photon, Proton, or Brachytherapy: A Nonrandomized Controlled Partial Breast Irradiation Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2024 Sep 17 Epub 2024 Sept 17 View PubMed Crompton DJ, Mohammadi H, Pirgousis P, Patel S, Janus J, Zhao Y, McGee LA, Patel SH, Routman DM, Ma DJ, Holtzman AL. Elective Irradiation of Retropharyngeal Lymph Nodes as an Indication for Adjuvant Radiation Therapy After Transoral Surgery for Tonsil Cancer. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2024 Sep-Oct; 14 (5):452-456 Epub 2024 May 13 View PubMed Ebadi M, Pankuch M, Boyer S, Chang J, Stevens C, Hall MD, Hasan S, Bates JE, Flampouri S, Kole AJ, Mohindra P, Rossi C, Sanghvi P, McGee L, Rana Z, Tseng YD. Proton Pencil Beam Scanning Facilitates the Safe Treatment of Extended Radiation Targets for Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Report from the Proton Collaborative Group Registry. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Aug 1; 16 (15) Epub 2024 Aug 01 View PubMed Zhu L, Rong Y, McGee LA, Rwigema JM, Patel SH. Testing and Validation of a Custom Retrained Large Language Model for the Supportive Care of HN Patients with External Knowledge Base. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Jun 24; 16 (13) Epub 2024 June 24 View PubMed Holtzman AL, Mohammadi H, Furutani KM, Koffler DM, McGee LA, Lester SC, Gamez ME, Routman DM, Beltran CJ, Liang X. Impact of Relative Biologic Effectiveness for Proton Therapy for Head and Neck and Skull-Base Tumors: A Technical and Clinical Review. Cancers (Basel). 2024 May 21; 16 (11) View PubMed Laughlin BS, Corbin KS, Toesca DAS, Thorpe CS, Golafshar MA, Pockaj B, Cronin P, McGee LA, Halyard MY, Mutter RW, Keole SR, Park SS, Shumway DA, Vern-Gross TZ, Vallow L, Wong WW, DeWees TA, Vargas CE. Physician- and Patient-Reported Outcomes of the MC1635 Phase 3 Trial of Ultrahypofractionated Versus Moderately Hypofractionated Adjuvant Radiation Therapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2024 Mar 15; 118 (4):1049-1059 Epub 2023 Oct 31 View PubMed Foote RL, Harmsen WS, Amundson AC, Carr AB, Gamez ME, Garces YI, Lester SC, Ma DJ, McGee LA, Moore EJ, Neben Wittich MA, Patel SH, Routman DM, Rwigema JM, Van Abel KM, Yin LX, Muller OM, Shiraishi S. Mean Oral Cavity Organ-at-Risk Dose Predicts Opioid Use and Hospitalization during Radiotherapy for Patients with Head and Neck Tumors. Cancers (Basel). 2024 Jan 13; 16 (2) View PubMed Abdel-Halim CN, O'Byrne TJ, Graves JP, Akpala CO, Moore EJ, Price DL, Tasche KT, Ma DJ, Neben-Wittich MA, Lester SC, Gamez M, Price KA, Bayne HEF, Rwigema JCM, Patel SH, McGee LA, Janus JR, Nagel TH, Hinni ML, Savvides PS, Van Abel KM, Routman DM. Patterns and distribution of regional nodal involvement and recurrence in a surgically treated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma cohort at a tertiary center. Oral Oncol. 2023 Nov; 146:106569 Epub 2023 Sept 19 View PubMed Sperduto W, McCullough A, Northfelt D, McGee L, Pockaj B, Jogerst K. Implications of a Supernumerary Nipple Breast Cancer in a BReast CAncer Sequence Variation Carrier: A Case Report. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2023 Oct; 7 (5):437-442 Epub 2023 Sept 20 View PubMed Mutter RW, Giri S, Fruth BF, Remmes NB, Boughey JC, Harless CA, Ruddy KJ, McGee LA, Afzal A, Gao RW, Shumway DA, Vern-Gross TZ, Villarraga HR, Kenison SL, Kang Y, Wong WW, Stish BJ, Merrell KW, Yan ES, Park SS, Corbin KS, Vargas CE. Conventional versus hypofractionated postmastectomy proton radiotherapy in the USA (MC1631): a randomised phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2023 Oct; 24 (10):1083-1093 Epub 2023 Sept 08 View PubMed Kang Y, Bues M, Halyard MY, McGee LA, Vern-Gross TZ, Wong WW, Keole SR, Vargas C, James SE, Ahmed SK, Archuleta JP, Ridgway AK, Lara PR, Fatyga M. Dose delivery reproducibility for PBS proton treatment of breast cancer patients with and without mask immobilization. Radiat Oncol. 2023 Sep 22; 18 (1):157 Epub 2023 Sept 22 View PubMed Laughlin BS, Ebrahimi S, Voss MM, Patel SH, Foote RL, McGee LA, Garcia J, Ma DJ, Garces YI, Wittich MAN, Price KA, Schmitt A, Zhai Q, May BC, Nagel TH, Hinni ML, Chintakuntlawar AV, DeWees TA, Rwigema JM. Clinicopathologic Factors and Their Association with Outcomes of Salivary Duct Carcinoma: A Multicenter Experience. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2023 Jul-Aug; 8 (4):101204 Epub 2023 Mar 01 View PubMed Holmes J, Liu Z, Zhang L, Ding Y, Sio TT, McGee LA, Ashman JB, Li X, Liu T, Shen J, Liu W. Evaluating large language models on a highly-specialized topic, radiation oncology physics. Front Oncol. 2023; 13:1219326 Epub 2023 July 17 View PubMed Gao RW, Routman DM, Harmsen WS, Ebrahimi S, Foote RL, Ma DJ, Neben-Wittich M, McGee LA, Patel SH, Moore EJ, Choby GW, Tasche KK, Price KA, Gamez ME, Lester SC. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the head and neck: Patterns of recurrence and implications for intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Head Neck. 2023 Jan; 45 (1):187-196 Epub 2022 Oct 12 View PubMed Anderson JD, DeWees TA, Ma DJ, Nagel TH, Van Abel KM, Moore EJ, Rwigema JCM, Routman DM, Wittich MN, McGee LA, Hayden RE, Foote RL, Golafshar M, Gamez ME, Lester SC, Anand A, Crujido LR, Halyard MY, Hinni ML, Patel SH. A Prospective Study of Mucosal Sparing Radiation Therapy in Resected Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Jan 1; 115 (1):192-201 Epub 2022 Oct 26 View PubMed Thorpe CS, DeWees TA, Laughlin BS, Vallow LA, Seneviratne D, Pockaj BA, Cronin PA, Halyard MY, Vern-Gross TZ, McGee LA, McLaughlin SA, Voss MM, Golafshar MA, Bulman GF, Vargas CE. Pilot/Phase II Trial of Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy to the Whole Breast Alone Before Breast Conserving Surgery. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2023 Jan-Feb; 8 (1):101111 Epub 2022 Oct 21 View PubMed Yang Y, Patel SH, Bridhikitti J, Wong WW, Halyard MY, McGee LA, Rwigema JM, Schild SE, Vora SA, Liu T, Bues M, Fatyga M, Foote RL, Liu W. Exploratory study of seed spots analysis to characterize dose and linear-energy-transfer effect in adverse event initialization of pencil-beam-scanning proton therapy. Med Phys. 2022 Sep; 49 (9):6237-6252 Epub 2022 July 21 View PubMed Gao RW, Foote RL, Garces YI, Ma DJ, Neben-Wittich M, Routman DM, Patel SH, Ko SJ, McGee LA, Bible KC, Chintakuntlawar AV, Ryder M, Morris JC, Van Abel KM, Rivera M, Abraha F, Lester SC. Outcomes and Patterns of Recurrence for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Treated With Comprehensive Chemoradiotherapy. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2022 Mar-Apr; 12 (2):113-119 Epub 2021 Oct 26 View PubMed Jeans EB, Shiraishi S, Manzar G, Morris LK, Amundson A, McGee LA, Rwigema JC, Neben-Wittich M, Routman DM, Ma DJ, Patel SH, Foote RL, Lester SC. An comparison of acute toxicities and patient-reported outcomes between intensity-modulated proton therapy and volumetric-modulated arc therapy after ipsilateral radiation for head and neck cancers. Head Neck. 2022 Feb; 44 (2):359-371 Epub 2021 Dec 03 View PubMed Yang Y, Muller OM, Shiraishi S, Harper M, Amundson AC, Wong WW, McGee LA, Rwigema JM, Schild SE, Bues M, Fatyga M, Anderson JD, Patel SH, Foote RL, Liu W. Empirical Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE) for Mandible Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated With Pencil-Beam-Scanning Proton Therapy (PBSPT): A Retrospective, Case-Matched Cohort Study. Front Oncol. 2022; 12:843175 Epub 2022 Mar 03 View PubMed Laughlin BS, Bhangoo RS, Thorpe CS, Golafshar MA, DeWees TA, Anderson JD, Vern-Gross TZ, McGee LA, Wong WW, Halyard MY, Keole SR, Vargas CE. Patient-reported outcomes for patients with breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy: A single-center registry experience. Front Oncol. 2022; 12:920739 Epub 2022 Aug 26 View PubMed Laughlin BS, Bhangoo RS, Niska JR, Thorpe CS, Girardo ME, Anderson JD, Kosiorek HE, McGee LA, Hartsell WF, Chang JH, Rossi CJ, Tsai HK, Choi IJ, Vargas CE. Proton therapy for isolated local regional recurrence of breast cancer after mastectomy alone. Front Oncol. 2022; 12:925078. Epub 2022 Nov 28. View PubMed Mutter RW, Choi JI, Jimenez RB, Kirova YM, Fagundes M, Haffty BG, Amos RA, Bradley JA, Chen PY, Ding X, Carr AM, Taylor LM, Pankuch M, Vega RBM, Ho AY, Nystrom PW, McGee LA, Urbanic JJ, Cahlon O, Maduro JH, MacDonald SM. Proton Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Consensus Statement From the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group Breast Cancer Subcommittee. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Oct 1; 111 (2):337-359 Epub 2021 May 25 View PubMed Gamez ME, Patel SH, McGee LA, Sio TT, McDonald M, Phan J, Ma DJ, Foote RL, Rwigema JM. A Systematic Review on Re-irradiation with Charged Particle Beam Therapy in the Management of Locally Recurrent Skull Base and Head and Neck Tumors. Int J Part Ther. 2021 Summer; 8 (1):131-154 Epub 2021 June 25 View PubMed Bridhikitti J, Viehman JK, Harmsen WS, Amundson AC, Shiraishi S, Mundy DW, Rwigema JM, McGee LA, Patel SH, Routman DM, Lester SC, Neben-Wittich MA, Garces YI, Ma DJ, Foote RL. Oncologic Outcomes for Head and Neck Skin Malignancies Treated with Protons. Int J Part Ther. 2021 Summer; 8 (1):294-303 Epub 2021 June 25 View PubMed Yu NY, Khurana A, Ma DJ, Neben-Wittich MA, Golafshar MA, McGee LA, Rwigema JM, Foote RL, Patel SH. Initial Experience with Proton Beam Therapy for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Int J Part Ther. 2021 Summer; 8 (1):311-318 Epub 2021 June 25 View PubMed Tseng YD, Pankuch M, Mohindra P, McGee L, Rossi C, Flampouri S, Hajj C, Molitoris JK, Chang JH, Tsai H, Stevens C, Rosen L, Vargas C, Hartsell W. Selection of Mediastinal Lymphoma Patients for Proton Therapy Within the Proton Collaborative Group Registry: Concordance With the ILROG Guidelines. Am J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jun 1; 44 (6):269-274 View PubMed Anderson JD, Hammond JB, Kosiorek HE, Thorpe CS, Bhangoo RS, Pockaj BA, Gray RJ, Cronin PA, Rebecca AM, Casey WJ, Wong WW, Keole SR, Vern-Gross TZ, McGee LA, Halyard MY, DeWees TA, Vargas CE. Unplanned implant removal in locally advanced breast cancer. Breast J. 2021 May; 27 (5):466-471 Epub 2021 Mar 14 View PubMed Hammond JB, Kosiorek HE, Cronin PA, Rebecca AM, Casey WJ 3rd, Wong WW, Vargas CE, Vern-Gross TZ, McGee LA, Pockaj BA. Capsular contracture in the modern era: A multidisciplinary look at the incidence and risk factors after mastectomy and implant-based breast reconstruction. Am J Surg. 2021 May; 221 (5):1005-1010 Epub 2020 Sept 21 View PubMed Gosselin T, Ginex PK, Backler C, Bruce SD, Hutton A, Marquez CM, McGee LA, Shaftic AM, Suarez LV, Moriarty KA, Maloney C, Vrabel M, Morgan RL. ONS Guidelines for Cancer Treatment-Related Radiodermatitis. Oncol Nurs Forum. 2020 Nov 1; 47 (6):654-670 View PubMed Thorpe CS, Niska JR, Anderson JD, Girardo ME, McGee LA, Hartsell WF, Larson GL, Tsai HK, Rossi CJ, Rosen LR, Vargas CE. Acute toxicities after proton beam therapy following breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer: Multi-institutional prospective PCG registry analysis. Breast J. 2020 Sep; 26 (9):1760-1764 Epub 2020 Apr 15 View PubMed Manzar GS, Lester SC, Routman DM, Harmsen WS, Petersen MM, Sloan JA, Mundy DW, Hunzeker AE, Amundson AC, Anderson JL, Patel SH, Garces YI, Halyard MY, McGee LA, Neben-Wittich MA, Ma DJ, Frank SJ, Whitaker TJ, Foote RL. Comparative analysis of acute toxicities and patient reported outcomes between intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer. Radiother Oncol. 2020 Jun; 147:64-74 Epub 2020 Mar 29 View PubMed Evans JD, Harper RH, Petersen M, Harmsen WS, Anand A, Hunzeker A, Deiter NC, Schultz H, Jethwa KR, Lester SC, Routman DM, Ma DJ, Garces YI, Neben-Wittich MA, Laack NN, Beltran CJ, Patel SH, McGee LA, Rwigema JM, Mundy DW, Foote RL. The Importance of Verification CT-QA Scans in Patients Treated with IMPT for Head and Neck Cancers. Int J Part Ther. 2020 Summer; 7 (1):41-53 Epub 2020 Aug 03 View PubMed Mutter RW, Jethwa KR, Gonuguntla K, Remmes NB, Whitaker TJ, Hieken TJ, Ruddy KJ, McGee LA, Corbin KS, Park SS. 3 fraction pencil-beam scanning proton accelerated partial breast irradiation: early provider and patient reported outcomes of a novel regimen. Radiat Oncol. 2019 Nov 21; 14 (1):211 View PubMed Thorpe CS, Niska JR, Girardo ME, Kosiorek HE, McGee LA, Hartsell WF, Larson GL, Tsai HK, Rossi CJ, Rosen LR, Vargas CE. Proton beam therapy reirradiation for breast cancer: Multi-institutional prospective PCG registry analysis. Breast J. 2019 Nov; 25 (6):1160-1170 Epub 2019 July 23 View PubMed Sio TT, Blanchard MJ, Novotny PJ, Patel SH, Rwigema JM, Pederson LD, McGee LA, Gamez ME, Seeger GR, Martenson JA, Grover Y, Neben Wittich MA, Garces YI, Foote RL, Miller RC, Halyard MY. N-Acetylcysteine Rinse for Thick Secretion and Mucositis of Head and Neck Chemoradiotherapy (Alliance MC13C2): A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial. Mayo Clin Proc. 2019 Sep; 94 (9):1814-1824 Epub 2019 Aug 09 View PubMed Zhu HJ, Nichols RC, Henderson RH, Morris CG, Flampouri S, Pham DC, Klassen CL, Seeram V, Cury JD, Jones L, McGee L, Hoppe BS. Impact of unfavorable factors on outcomes among inoperable stage II-IV Nonsmall cell lung cancer patients treated with proton therapy. Acta Oncol. 2019 Mar; 58 (3):313-319 Epub 2019 Jan 18 View PubMed Gamez ME, Kraus R, Hinni ML, Moore EJ, Ma DJ, Ko SJ, Rwigema JCM, McGee LA, Halyard MY, Buras MR, Foote RL, Patel SH. Treatment outcomes of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity in young adults. Oral Oncol. 2018 Dec; 87:43-48 Epub 2018 Oct 22 View PubMed Thorpe CS, Niska JR, Brunnhoelzl DC, McGee LA, Kesslering CM, Hartsell WF, Vargas CE. First report of proton beam therapy for breast angiosarcoma from the prospective PCG registry. Acta Oncol 2018 Jul; 57 (7):992-994 Epub 2018 Jan 05 View PubMed Gamez ME, Jeans E, Hinni ML, Moore E, Young G, Ma D, McGee L, Buras MR, Patel SH. Outcomes and patterns of failure of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the larynx: The Mayo Clinic experience. Laryngoscope. 2018 Feb; 128 (2):373-377 Epub 2017 July 06 View PubMed Tseng YD, Cutter DJ, Plastaras JP, Parikh RR, Cahlon O, Chuong MD, Dedeckova K, Khan MK, Lin SY, McGee LA, Shen EY, Terezakis SA, Badiyan SN, Kirova YM, Hoppe RT, Mendenhall NP, Pankuch M, Flampouri S, Ricardi U, Hoppe BS. Evidence-based Review on the Use of Proton Therapy in Lymphoma From the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group (PTCOG) Lymphoma Subcommittee. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2017 Nov 15; 99 (4):825-842 Epub 2017 Sept 21 View PubMed Hoppe BS, Hill-Kayser CE, Tseng YD, Flampouri S, Elmongy HM, Cahlon O, Mendenhall NP, Maity A, McGee LA, Plastaras JP. Consolidative proton therapy after chemotherapy for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma. Ann Oncol. 2017 Sep 1; 28 (9):2179-2184 View PubMed Verma V, Iftekaruddin Z, Badar N, Hartsell W, Han-Chih Chang J, Gondi V, Pankuch M, Gao M, Schmidt S, Kaplan D, McGee L. Proton beam radiotherapy as part of comprehensive regional nodal irradiation for locally advanced breast cancer. Radiother Oncol. 2017 May; 123 (2):294-298 Epub 2017 Apr 27 View PubMed Hoppe BS, Tsai H, Larson G, Laramore GE, Vargas C, Tseng YD, Dunn M, McGee L, Cahlon O, Hartsell W. Proton therapy patterns-of-care and early outcomes for Hodgkin lymphoma: results from the Proton Collaborative Group Registry. Acta Oncol. 2016 Nov; 55 (11):1378-1380 Epub 2016 Aug 31 View PubMed McGee L, Mendenhall NP, Henderson RH, Morris CG, Nichols RC Jr, Marcus RJ Jr, Li Z, Mendenhall WM, Williams CR, Hoppe BS. Outcomes in men with large prostates (>/= 60 cm(3)) treated with definitive proton therapy for prostate cancer. Acta Oncol. 2013 Apr; 52 (3):470-6 Epub 2012 Dec 17 View PubMed McGee L, Indelicato DJ, Dagan R, Morris CG, Knapik JA, Reith JD, Scarborough MT, Gibbs CP, Marcus RB Jr, Zlotecki RA. Long-term results following postoperative radiotherapy for soft tissue sarcomas of the extremity. 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