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Rebecca S. Gelman, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Phone: (617) 632-3629
Fax: (617) 632-2444


gelman@jimmy.harvard.edu

Rebecca S. Gelman, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Associate Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

My oncology research is related to breast cancer, biostatistics, and immunology. The breast cancer research includes studies of long-term toxicity (e.g. cardiac events after doxorubicin and/or radiation to left chest, MDS after alkylating agents), a recent grant submission on mathematical models of the effects of current and new breast cancer imaging methodology and therapy changes on national survival statistics, and studies of prognostic factors, most recently in DCIS patients. The immunology research includes studies of immunogenetics in mice and studies of patient and assay technique factors which influence the variability of tests such as lymphoproliferative assays, cytotoxic T lymphocyte assays, and immunophenotyping. The biostatistics research is related to breast cancer (e.g., competing risks methodology, analysis of non-proportional hazards, computing methods for SAGE analysis) or to immunology (e.g., interval censoring in animal studies, robust estimates of coefficient of variation in lab studies).

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  • Vanderwall RA, Schwartz A, Kipnis L, Skefos CM, Stokes SM, Bhulani N, Weitz M, Gelman R, Garber JE, Rana HQ. Impact of Genetic Counseling on Patient-Reported Electronic Cancer Family History Collection. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2022; 20:898-905.e2. PubMed
  • Xu J, Keenan TE, Overmoyer B, Tung NM, Gelman RS, Habin K, Garber JE, Ellisen LW, Winer EP, Goss PE, Yeap BY, Chabner BA, Isakoff SJ. Phase II trial of veliparib and temozolomide in metastatic breast cancer patients with and without BRCA1/2 mutations. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2021; 189:641-651. PubMed
  • Leone JP, Emblem KE, Weitz M, Gelman RS, Schneider BP, Freedman RA, Younger J, Pinho MC, Sorensen AG, Gerstner ER, Harris G, Krop IE, Morganstern D, Sohl J, Hu J, Kasparian E, Winer EP, Lin NU. Phase II trial of carboplatin and bevacizumab in patients with breast cancer brain metastases. Breast Cancer Res 2020; 22:131. PubMed
  • Freedman RA, Gelman RS, Agar NYR, Santagata S, Randall EC, Gimenez-Cassina Lopez B, Connolly RM, Dunn IF, Van Poznak CH, Anders CK, Melisko ME, Silvestri K, Cotter CM, Componeschi KP, Marte JM, Moy B, Blackwell KL, Puhalla SL, Ibrahim N, Moynihan TJ, Nangia J, Tung N, Burns R, Rimawi MF, Krop IE, Wolff AC, Winer EP, Lin NU, . Pre- and Postoperative Neratinib for HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Brain Metastases: Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium 022. Clin Breast Cancer 2019. PubMed
  • Freedman RA, Gelman RS, Anders CK, Melisko ME, Parsons HA, Cropp AM, Silvestri K, Cotter CM, Componeschi KP, Marte JM, Connolly RM, Moy B, Van Poznak CH, Blackwell KL, Puhalla SL, Jankowitz RC, Smith KL, Ibrahim N, Moynihan TJ, O'Sullivan CC, Nangia J, Niravath P, Tung N, Pohlmann PR, Burns R, Rimawi MF, Krop IE, Wolff AC, Winer EP, Lin NU, . TBCRC 022: A Phase II Trial of Neratinib and Capecitabine for Patients With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer and Brain Metastases. J Clin Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Li AG, Murphy EC, Culhane AC, Powell E, Wang H, Bronson RT, Von T, Giobbie-Hurder A, Gelman RS, Briggs KJ, Piwnica-Worms H, Zhao JJ, Kung AL, Kaelin WG, Livingston DM. BRCA1-IRIS promotes human tumor progression through PTEN blockade and HIF-1α activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018. PubMed
  • Rana HQ, Gelman R, LaDuca H, McFarland R, Dalton E, Thompson J, Speare V, Dolinsky JS, Chao EC, Garber JE. Differences in TP53 Mutation Carrier Phenotypes Emerge From Panel-Based Testing. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2018. PubMed
  • Stover DG, Gil Del Alcazar CR, Brock J, Guo H, Overmoyer B, Balko J, Xu Q, Bardia A, Tolaney SM, Gelman R, Lloyd M, Wang Y, Xu Y, Michor F, Wang V, Winer EP, Polyak K, Lin NU. Phase II study of ruxolitinib, a selective JAK1/2 inhibitor, in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer 2018; 4:10. PubMed
  • Wang H, Bierie B, Li AG, Pathania S, Toomire K, Dimitrov SD, Liu B, Gelman R, Giobbie-Hurder A, Feunteun J, Polyak K, Livingston DM. BRCA1/FANCD2/BRG1-Driven DNA Repair Stabilizes the Differentiation State of Human Mammary Epithelial Cells. Mol Cell 2016. PubMed
  • Freedman RA, Gelman RS, Wefel JS, Melisko ME, Hess KR, Connolly RM, Van Poznak CH, Niravath PA, Puhalla SL, Ibrahim N, Blackwell KL, Moy B, Herold C, Liu MC, Lowe A, Agar NY, Ryabin N, Farooq S, Lawler E, Rimawi MF, Krop IE, Wolff AC, Winer EP, Lin NU. Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium (TBCRC) 022: A Phase II Trial of Neratinib for Patients With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer and Brain Metastases. J Clin Oncol 2016; 34:945-52. PubMed
  • Nakhlis F, Gilmore L, Gelman R, Bedrosian I, Ludwig K, Hwang ES, Willey S, Hudis C, Iglehart JD, Lawler E, Ryabin NY, Golshan M, Schnitt SJ, King TA. Incidence of Adjacent Synchronous Invasive Carcinoma and/or Ductal Carcinoma In-situ in Patients with Lobular Neoplasia on Core Biopsy: Results from a Prospective Multi-Institutional Registry (TBCRC 020). Ann Surg Oncol 2015. PubMed
  • Wong JS, Chen YH, Gadd MA, Gelman R, Lester SC, Schnitt SJ, Sgroi DC, Silver BJ, Smith BL, Troyan SL, Harris JR. Eight-year update of a prospective study of wide excision alone for small low- or intermediate-grade ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Breast Cancer Res Treat 2014; 143:343-50. PubMed
  • Lin NU, Freedman RA, Ramakrishna N, Younger J, Storniolo AM, Bellon JR, Come SE, Gelman RS, Harris GJ, Henderson MA, Macdonald SM, Mahadevan A, Eisenberg E, Ligibel JA, Mayer EL, Moy B, Eichler AF, Winer EP. A phase I study of lapatinib with whole brain radiotherapy in patients with Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer brain metastases. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2013; 142:405-14. PubMed
  • Ruddy KJ, Desantis SD, Gelman RS, Wu AH, Punglia RS, Mayer EL, Tolaney SM, Winer EP, Partridge AH, Burstein HJ. Personalized medicine in breast cancer: tamoxifen, endoxifen, and CYP2D6 in clinical practice. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2013; 141:421-7. PubMed
  • Rath MG, Masciari S, Gelman R, Miron A, Miron P, Foley K, Richardson AL, Krop IE, Verselis SJ, Dillon DA, Garber JE. Prevalence of germline TP53 mutations in HER2+ breast cancer patients. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2013. PubMed
  • Mayer EL, Isakoff SJ, Klement G, Downing SR, Chen WY, Hannagan K, Gelman R, Winer EP, Burstein HJ. Combination antiangiogenic therapy in advanced breast cancer: a phase 1 trial of vandetanib, a VEGFR inhibitor, and metronomic chemotherapy, with correlative platelet proteomics. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2012; 136:169-78. PubMed
  • Golshan M, Garber JE, Gelman R, Tung N, Smith BL, Troyan S, Greenberg CC, Winer EP, Ryan P. Does neoadjuvant bevacizumab increase surgical complications in breast surgery? Ann Surg Oncol 2011; 18:733-7. PubMed
  • Weinberg A, Song LY, Wilkening CL, Fenton T, Hural J, Louzao R, Ferrari G, Etter PE, Berrong M, Canniff JD, Carter D, Defawe OD, Garcia A, Garrelts TL, Gelman R, Lambrecht LK, Pahwa S, Pilakka-Kanthikeel S, Shugarts DL, Tustin NB. Optimization of storage and shipment of cryopreserved peripheral blood mononuclear cells from HIV-infected and uninfected individuals for ELISPOT assays. J Immunol Methods 2010; 363:42-50. PubMed
  • Chen RC, Mamon HJ, Chen YH, Gelman RS, Suh WW, Talcott JA, Clark JW, Hong TS. Patient-reported acute gastrointestinal symptoms during concurrent chemoradiation treatment for rectal cancer. Cancer 2010; 116:1879-86. PubMed
  • Silver DP, Richardson AL, Eklund AC, Wang ZC, Szallasi Z, Li Q, Juul N, Leong CO, Calogrias D, Buraimoh A, Fatima A, Gelman RS, Ryan PD, Tung NM, De Nicolo A, Ganesan S, Miron A, Colin C, Sgroi DC, Ellisen LW, Winer EP, Garber JE. Efficacy of neoadjuvant Cisplatin in triple-negative breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 2010; 28:1145-53. PubMed
  • Tung N, Wang Y, Collins LC, Kaplan J, Li H, Gelman R, Comander AH, Gallagher B, Fetten K, Krag K, Stoeckert KA, Legare RD, Sgroi D, Ryan PD, Garber JE, Schnitt SJ. Estrogen receptor positive breast cancers in BRCA1 mutation carriers: clinical risk factors and pathologic features. Breast Cancer Res 2010; 12:R12. PubMed
  • Park SY, Lee HE, Li H, Shipitsin M, Gelman R, Polyak K. Heterogeneity for stem cell-related markers according to tumor subtype and histologic stage in breast cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2010; 16:876-87. PubMed
  • Partridge AH,Wolff AC,Marcom PK,Kaufman PA,Zhang L,Gelman R,Moore C,Lake D,Fleming GF,Rugo HS,Atkins J,Sampson E,Collyar D,Winer EP. The impact of sharing results of a randomized breast cancer clinical trial with study participants. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2009; 115:123-9. PubMed
  • Hu M,Peluffo G,Chen H,Gelman R,Schnitt S,Polyak K. Role of COX-2 in epithelial-stromal cell interactions and progression of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:3372-7. PubMed
  • Burstein HJ,Chen YH,Parker LM,Savoie J,Younger J,Kuter I,Ryan PD,Garber JE,Chen H,Campos SM,Shulman LN,Harris LN,Gelman R,Winer EP. VEGF as a marker for outcome among advanced breast cancer patients receiving anti-VEGF therapy with bevacizumab and vinorelbine chemotherapy. Clin Cancer Res 2008; 14:7871-7. PubMed
  • Bloushtain-Qimron N,Yao J,Snyder EL,Shipitsin M,Campbell LL,Mani SA,Hu M,Chen H,Ustyansky V,Antosiewicz JE,Argani P,Halushka MK,Thomson JA,Pharoah P,Porgador A,Sukumar S,Parsons R,Richardson AL,Stampfer MR,Gelman RS,Nikolskaya T,Nikolsky Y,Polyak K. Cell type-specific DNA methylation patterns in the human breast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:14076-81. PubMed
  • Permar SR,Kang HH,Carville A,Mansfield KG,Gelman RS,Rao SS,Whitney JB,Letvin NL. Potent simian immunodeficiency virus-specific cellular immune responses in the breast milk of simian immunodeficiency virus-infected, lactating rhesus monkeys. J Immunol 2008; 181:3643-50. PubMed
  • Hu M, Yao J, Carroll DK, Weremowicz S, Chen H, Carrasco D, Richardson A, Violette S, Nikolskaya T, Nikolsky Y, Bauerlein EL, Hahn WC, Gelman RS, Allred C, Bissell MJ, Schnitt S, Polyak K. Regulation of in situ to invasive breast carcinoma transition. Cancer Cell 2008; 13:394-406. PubMed
  • Lin NU, Carey LA, Liu MC, Younger J, Come SE, Ewend M, Harris GJ, Bullitt E, Van den Abbeele AD, Henson JW, Li X, Gelman R, Burstein HJ, Kasparian E, Kirsch DG, Crawford A, Hochberg F, Winer EP. Phase II trial of lapatinib for brain metastases in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 2008; 26:1993-9. PubMed
  • Wong JS, Ho AY, Kaelin CM, Bishop KL, Silver B, Gelman R, Harris JR, Hergrueter CA. Incidence of major corrective surgery after post-mastectomy breast reconstruction and radiation therapy. Breast J 2008; 14:49-54. PubMed
  • Pujana MA, Han JD, Starita LM, Stevens KN, Tewari M, Ahn JS, Rennert G, Moreno V, Kirchhoff T, Gold B, Assmann V, Elshamy WM, Rual JF, Levine D, Rozek LS, Gelman RS, Gunsalus KC, Greenberg RA, Sobhian B, Bertin N, Venkatesan K, Ayivi-Guedehoussou N, Sole X, Hernandez P, Lazaro C, Nathanson KL, Weber BL, Cusick ME, Hill DE, Offit K, Livingston DM, Gruber SB, Parvin JD, Vidal M. Network modeling links breast cancer susceptibility and centrosome dysfunction. Nat Genet 2007; 39:1338-49. PubMed
  • Burstein HJ, Keshaviah A, Baron AD, Hart RD, Lambert-Falls R, Marcom PK, Gelman R, Winer EP. Trastuzumab plus vinorelbine or taxane chemotherapy for HER2-overexpressing metastatic breast cancer: the trastuzumab and vinorelbine or taxane study. Cancer 2007; 110:965-72. PubMed
  • Lin NU, Parker LM, Come SE, Burstein HJ, Haldoupis M, Ryabin N, Gelman R, Winer EP, Shulman LN. Phase II study of CT-2103 as first- or second-line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer: unexpected incidence of hypersensitivity reactions. Invest New Drugs 2007; 25:369-75. PubMed
  • Landis DM, Luo W, Song J, Bellon JR, Punglia RS, Wong JS, Killoran JH, Gelman R, Harris JR. Variability among breast radiation oncologists in delineation of the postsurgical lumpectomy cavity. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007; 67:1299-308. PubMed
  • Burstein HJ, Overmoyer B, Gelman R, Silverman P, Savoie J, Clarke K, Dumadag L, Younger J, Ivy P, Winer EP. Rebeccamycin analog for refractory breast cancer: a randomized phase II trial of dosing schedules. Invest New Drugs 2007; 25:161-4. PubMed
  • Mitsuyasu R, Gelman R, Cherng DW, Landay A, Fahey J, Reichman R, Erice A, Bucy RP, Kilby JM, Lederman MM, Hamilton CD, Lertora J, White BL, Tebas P, Duliege AM, Pollard RB,. The virologic, immunologic, and clinical effects of interleukin 2 with potent antiretroviral therapy in patients with moderately advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection: a randomized controlled clinical trial--AIDS Clinical Trials Group 328. Arch Intern Med 2007; 167:597-605. PubMed
  • Silver DP, Dimitrov SD, Feunteun J, Gelman R, Drapkin R, Lu SD, Shestakova E, Velmurugan S, Denunzio N, Dragomir S, Mar J, Liu X, Rottenberg S, Jonkers J, Ganesan S, Livingston DM. Further evidence for BRCA1 communication with the inactive X chromosome. Cell 2007; 128:991-1002. PubMed
  • Shipitsin M, Campbell LL, Argani P, Weremowicz S, Bloushtain-Qimron N, Yao J, Nikolskaya T, Serebryiskaya T, Beroukhim R, Hu M, Halushka MK, Sukumar S, Parker LM, Anderson KS, Harris LN, Garber JE, Richardson AL, Schnitt SJ, Nikolsky Y, Gelman RS, Polyak K. Molecular definition of breast tumor heterogeneity. Cancer Cell 2007; 11:259-73. PubMed
  • Harris LN, You F, Schnitt SJ, Witkiewicz A, Lu X, Sgroi D, Ryan PD, Come SE, Burstein HJ, Lesnikoski BA, Kamma M, Friedman PN, Gelman R, Iglehart JD, Winer EP. Predictors of resistance to preoperative trastuzumab and vinorelbine for HER2-positive early breast cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2007; 13:1198-207. PubMed
  • Margolin DH, Saunders EH, Bronfin B, de Rosa N, Axthelm MK, Goloubeva OG, Eapen S, Gelman RS, Letvin NL. Germinal center function in the spleen during simian HIV infection in rhesus monkeys. J Immunol 2006; 177:1108-19. PubMed
  • Lim M, Bellon JR, Gelman R, Silver B, Recht A, Schnitt SJ, Harris JR. A prospective study of conservative surgery without radiation therapy in select patients with Stage I breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006; 65:1149-54. PubMed
  • Carlson RW, Moench SJ, Hammond ME, Perez EA, Burstein HJ, Allred DC, Vogel CL, Goldstein LJ, Somlo G, Gradishar WJ, Hudis CA, Jahanzeb M, Stark A, Wolff AC, Press MF, Winer EP, Paik S, Ljung BM,. HER2 testing in breast cancer: NCCN Task Force report and recommendations. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2006; 4 Suppl 3:S1-22; quiz S23-4. PubMed
  • Yao J, Weremowicz S, Feng B, Gentleman RC, Marks JR, Gelman R, Brennan C, Polyak K. Combined cDNA array comparative genomic hybridization and serial analysis of gene expression analysis of breast tumor progression. Cancer Res 2006; 66:4065-78. PubMed
  • Wüthrich C, Kesari S, Kim WK, Williams K, Gelman R, Elmeric D, De Girolami U, Joseph JT, Hedley-Whyte T, Koralnik IJ. Characterization of lymphocytic infiltrates in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: co-localization of CD8(+) T cells with JCV-infected glial cells. J Neurovirol 2006; 12:116-28. PubMed
  • Burstein HJ, Bellon JR, Galper S, Lu HM, Kuter I, Taghian AG, Wong J, Gelman R, Bunnell CA, Parker LM, Garber JE, Winer EP, Harris JR, Powell SN. Prospective evaluation of concurrent paclitaxel and radiation therapy after adjuvant doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide chemotherapy for Stage II or III breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006; 64:496-504. PubMed
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