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Renee A. Desmond
Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Publications - 185
Citations - 11940
Renee A. Desmond is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 185 publications receiving 11232 citations. Previous affiliations of Renee A. Desmond include American Society of Clinical Oncology & Johns Hopkins University.
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Prognostic Factors Analysis of 17,600 Melanoma Patients: Validation of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Melanoma Staging System
Charles M. Balch,Seng Jaw Soong,Jeffrey E. Gershenwald,John F. Thompson,Douglas S. Reintgen,Natale Cascinelli,Marshall M. Urist,Kelly M. McMasters,M. I. Ross,John M. Kirkwood,Michael B. Atkins,John A. Thompson,Daniel G. Coit,David R. Byrd,Renee A. Desmond,Yuting Zhang,Ping-Yu Liu,Gary H. Lyman,Aberto Morabito +18 more
TL;DR: The proposed tumor-node-metastases categories and stage groupings for cutaneous melanoma patients were validated and incorporated into the AJCC melanoma staging as described in the companion publication.
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Prognostic factors for the survival of patients with esophageal carcinoma in the U.S.: the importance of tumor length and lymph node status.
TL;DR: The authors explored the effect of tumor length and number of positive lymph nodes on survival in patients with esophageal carcinoma using data from the National Cancer Institute SEER Program.
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Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease: the clinical experience in North America.
TL;DR: In the subset of long-term survivors, ARPKD has a slower rate of disease progression, as assessed by age of AR PKD diagnosis, as well as age of diagnosis of clinical morbidities, which suggests that disease progression may have organ-specific patterns.
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Long-term results of a prospective surgical trial comparing 2 cm vs. 4 cm excision margins for 740 patients with 1-4 mm melanomas.
Charles M. Balch,Seng-Jaw Soong,Thomas J. Smith,Merrick I. Ross,Marshall M. Urist,Constantine P. Karakousis,Walley J. Temple,Martin C. Mihm,Raymond L. Barnhill,William R. Jewell,Harry J. Wanebo,Renee A. Desmond +11 more
TL;DR: For this group of melanoma patients, a local recurrence is associated with a high mortality rate, a 2-cm margin of excision is safe and ulceration of the primary melanoma is the most significant prognostic factor heralding an increased risk for a local Recurrence.
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Temporal trends (1973-1997) in survival of patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma in the United States: a glimmer of hope?
Mohamad A. Eloubeidi,Andrew C. Mason,Andrew C. Mason,Renee A. Desmond,Hashem B. El-Serag,Hashem B. El-Serag +5 more
TL;DR: The short- and long-term survival of patients with EAC has improved slightly in the United States over the past 25 yr, and some of the improvement may be related to an increase in the number of younger patients, and in cases with in situ and localized cancers.