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Brad McGregor, MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Phone: (617) 632-6328


bradley_mcgregor@dfci.harvard.edu

Brad McGregor, MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Clinical Director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • GU Network Liason, CSO Cabinet, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Research Abstract

I serve as the clinic director for the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. My practice encompasses medical oncologic care for all genitourinary malignancies to include kidney, bladder, prostate, testicular and rare tumors.

From a research perspective, I am an active participant in clinical trials. In collaboration with others, we are exploring the role of combination immunotherapy in rare genitourinary cancers (non-traditional bladder and prostate cancer, adrenocortical cancer, treatment refractory testicular cancer, penile cancer) In addition, I am leading trials exploring novel combinations of immunotherapies with other agents in a variety of tumor types while also exploring the role of anti-body drug conjugates in heavily treated cases of kidney and bladder cancer.

I also am involved in efforts to better elucidate prognostic and predictive markers exploring different mutations on the tumor as well as blood based markers that may assist in future treatment decisions.

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  • Saliby RM, El Zarif T, Bakouny Z, Shah V, Xie W, Flippot R, Denize T, Kane MH, Madsen KN, Ficial M, Hirsch L, Wei XX, Steinarter JA, Harshman LC, Vaishampayan UN, Severgnini M, McDermott DF, Lee GM, Xu W, Van Allen EM, McGregor BA, Signoretti S, Choueiri TK, McKay RR, Braun DA. Circulating and intratumoral immune determinants of response to atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in patients with variant histology or sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Res 2023. PubMed
  • Gagliano-Jucá T, Hirsch MS, McGregor BA, Basaria S. Failure of Androgen-Deprivation Therapy Due to Ectopic hCG Secretion. N Engl J Med 2023; 388:660-662. PubMed
  • Tully KH, Berg S, Paciotti M, Janisch F, Reese SW, Noldus J, Shariat SF, Choueiri T, Müller G, McGregor B, Chang SL, Trinh QD, Mossanen M. The Natural History of Renal-Cell Carcinoma with Sarcomatoid Differentiation, a Stage-by-Stage Analysis. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2023; 21:63-68. PubMed
  • Berg SA, McGregor BA. The Continuing Question of Adjuvant Therapy in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancers (Basel) 2022. PubMed
  • Sonpavde GP, Maughan BL, McGregor BA, Wei XX, Kilbridge KL, Lee RJ, Yu EY, Schweizer MT, Montgomery RB, Cheng HH, Hsieh AC, Jain R, Grewal JS, Pico-Navarro C, Gafoor Z, Perschy T, Grivas P. Phase II trial of CV301 vaccine combined with atezolizumab in advanced urothelial carcinoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2022. PubMed
  • Navani V, Wells JC, Boyne DJ, Cheung WY, Brenner DM, McGregor BA, Labaki C, Schmidt AL, McKay RR, Meza L, Pal SK, Donskov F, Beuselinck B, Otiato M, Ludwig L, Powles T, Szabados BE, Choueiri TK, Heng DYC. CABOSEQ: The Effectiveness of Cabozantinib in Patients With Treatment Refractory Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results From the International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium (IMDC). Clin Genitourin Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Agarwal N, McGregor B, Maughan BL, Dorff TB, Kelly W, Fang B, McKay RR, Singh P, Pagliaro L, Dreicer R, Srinivas S, Loriot Y, Vaishampayan U, Goel S, Curran D, Panneerselvam A, Schwickart M, Choueiri TK, Pal S. Cabozantinib in combination with atezolizumab in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from an expansion cohort of a multicentre, open-label, phase 1b trial (COSMIC-021). Lancet Oncol. 2022; 23:899-909. PubMed
  • Geynisman DM, Burotto M, Porta C, Suarez C, Bourlon MT, Huo S, Del Tejo V, Du EX, Yang X, Betts KA, Choueiri TK, McGregor B. Temporal Trends in Grade 3/4 Adverse Events and Associated Costs of Nivolumab Plus Cabozantinib Versus Sunitinib for Previously Untreated Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Drug Investig 2022; 42:611-622. PubMed
  • Hasanov E, Yeboa DN, Tucker MD, Swanson TA, Beckham TH, Rini B, Ene CI, Hasanov M, Derks S, Smits M, Dudani S, Heng DYC, Brastianos PK, Bex A, Hanalioglu S, Weinberg JS, Hirsch L, Carlo MI, Aizer A, Brown PD, Bilen MA, Chang EL, Jaboin J, Brugarolas J, Choueiri TK, Atkins MB, McGregor BA, Halasz LM, Patel TR, Soltys SG, McDermott DF, Elder JB, Baskaya MK, Yu JB, Timmerman R, Kim MM, Mut M, Markert J, Beal K, Tannir NM, Samandouras G, Lang FF, Giles R, Jonasch E. An interdisciplinary consensus on the management of brain metastases in patients with renal cell carcinoma. CA Cancer J Clin 2022. PubMed
  • Nuzzo PV, Adib E, Weise N, Curran C, Stewart T, Freeman D, Nassar AH, Abou Alaiwi S, Bakouny Z, McGregor BA, Choueiri TK, Jain RK, McKay RR, Sonpavde G. Impact of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors on outcomes in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Ravi P, Ravi A, Riaz IB, Freeman D, Curran C, Mantia C, McGregor BA, Kilbridge KL, Pan CX, Pek M, Choudhury Y, Tan MH, Sonpavde GP. Longitudinal Evaluation of Circulating Tumor DNA Using Sensitive Amplicon-Based Next-Generation Sequencing to Identify Resistance Mechanisms to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma. Oncologist 2022. PubMed
  • Bakouny Z, Sadagopan A, Ravi P, Metaferia NY, Li J, AbuHammad S, Tang S, Denize T, Garner ER, Gao X, Braun DA, Hirsch L, Steinharter JA, Bouchard G, Walton E, West D, Labaki C, Dudani S, Gan CL, Sethunath V, Carvalho FLF, Imamovic A, Ricker C, Vokes NI, Nyman J, Berchuck JE, Park J, Hirsch MS, Haq R, Mary Lee GS, McGregor BA, Chang SL, Feldman AS, Wu CJ, McDermott DF, Heng DYC, Signoretti S, Van Allen EM, Choueiri TK, Viswanathan SR. Integrative clinical and molecular characterization of translocation renal cell carcinoma. Cell Rep 2022; 38:110190. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Xie W, Adib E, Stadler WM, Zakharia Y, Alva A, Michaelson MD, Gupta S, Lam ET, Farah S, Nassar AH, Wei XX, Kilbridge KL, Harshman L, Signoretti S, Sholl L, Kwiatkowski DJ, McKay RR, Choueiri TK. Biomarker-Based Phase II Study of Sapanisertib (TAK-228): An mTORC1/2 Inhibitor in Patients With Refractory Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. JCO Precis Oncol 2022; 6:e2100448. PubMed
  • Bilen MA, Rini BI, Voss MH, Larkin J, Haanen JBAG, Albiges L, Pagliaro LC, Voog EG, Lam ET, Kislov N, McGregor BA, Lalani AA, Huang B, di Pietro A, Krulewicz S, Robbins PB, Choueiri TK. Association of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio With Efficacy of First-Line Avelumab Plus Axitinib vs Sunitinib in Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma Enrolled in the Phase 3 JAVELIN Renal 101 Trial. Clin Cancer Res 2021. PubMed
  • Bi K, He MX, Bakouny Z, Kanodia A, Napolitano S, Wu J, Grimaldi G, Braun DA, Cuoco MS, Mayorga A, DelloStritto L, Bouchard G, Steinharter J, Tewari AK, Vokes NI, Shannon E, Sun M, Park J, Chang SL, McGregor BA, Haq R, Denize T, Signoretti S, Guerriero JL, Vigneau S, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Rotem A, Regev A, Choueiri TK, Van Allen EM. Tumor and immune reprogramming during immunotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Cell 2021; 39:649-661.e5. PubMed
  • Braun DA, Street K, Burke KP, Cookmeyer DL, Denize T, Pedersen CB, Gohil SH, Schindler N, Pomerance L, Hirsch L, Bakouny Z, Hou Y, Forman J, Huang T, Li S, Cui A, Keskin DB, Steinharter J, Bouchard G, Sun M, Pimenta EM, Xu W, Mahoney KM, McGregor BA, Hirsch MS, Chang SL, Livak KJ, McDermott DF, Shukla SA, Olsen LR, Signoretti S, Sharpe AH, Irizarry RA, Choueiri TK, Wu CJ. Progressive immune dysfunction with advancing disease stage in renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Cell 2021; 39:632-648.e8. PubMed
  • Ravi P, Pond GR, Diamantopoulos LN, Su C, Alva A, Jain RK, Skelton WP, Gupta S, Tward JD, Olson KM, Singh P, Grunewald CM, Niegisch G, Lee JL, Gallina A, Bandini M, Necchi A, Mossanen M, McGregor BA, Curran C, Grivas P, Sonpavde GP. Optimal pathological response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: results from a global, multicentre collaboration. BJU Int 2021. PubMed
  • Abou Alaiwi S, Nassar AH, Adib E, Groha SM, Akl EW, McGregor BA, Esplin ED, Yang S, Hatchell K, Fusaro V, Nielsen S, Kwiatkowski DJ, Sonpavde GP, Pomerantz M, Garber JE, Freedman ML, Rana HQ, Gusev A, Choueiri TK. Trans-ethnic variation in germline variants of patients with renal cell carcinoma. Cell Rep 2021; 34:108926. PubMed
  • Wells JC, Dudani S, Gan CL, Stukalin I, Azad AA, Liow E, Donskov F, Yuasa T, Pal SK, De Velasco G, Hansen AR, Beuselinck B, Kollmannsberger CK, Powles T, McGregor BA, Duh MS, Huynh L, Heng DYC. Clinical Effectiveness of Second-line Sunitinib Following Immuno-oncology Therapy in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Real-world Study. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Bakouny Z, Braun DA, Shukla SA, Pan W, Gao X, Hou Y, Flaifel A, Tang S, Bosma-Moody A, He MX, Vokes N, Nyman J, Xie W, Nassar AH, Abou Alaiwi S, Flippot R, Bouchard G, Steinharter JA, Nuzzo PV, Ficial M, Sant'Angelo M, Forman J, Berchuck JE, Dudani S, Bi K, Park J, Camp S, Sticco-Ivins M, Hirsch L, Baca SC, Wind-Rotolo M, Ross-Macdonald P, Sun M, Lee GM, Chang SL, Wei XX, McGregor BA, Harshman LC, Genovese G, Ellis L, Pomerantz M, Hirsch MS, Freedman ML, Atkins MB, Wu CJ, Ho TH, Linehan WM, McDermott DF, Heng DYC, Viswanathan SR, Signoretti S, Van Allen EM, Choueiri TK. Integrative molecular characterization of sarcomatoid and rhabdoid renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun 2021; 12:808. PubMed
  • McKay RR, McGregor BA, Xie W, Braun DA, Wei X, Kyriakopoulos CE, Zakharia Y, Maughan BL, Rose TL, Stadler WM, McDermott DF, Harshman LC, Choueiri TK. Optimized Management of Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Response-Based Phase II Study (OMNIVORE). J Clin Oncol 2020; 38:4240-4248. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Vidal GA, Shah SA, Mitchell JD, Hendifar AE. Remote Oncology Care: Review of Current Technology and Future Directions. Cureus 2020; 12:e10156. PubMed
  • Flippot R, Damarla V, McGregor BA. Management of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma with Variant Histologies. Urol Clin North Am 2020; 47:319-327. PubMed
  • Ravi P, McGregor BA. Antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of urothelial carcinoma. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2020. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Lalani AA, Xie W, Steinharter JA, E Bakouny Z, Martini DJ, Fleischer JH, Abou-Alaiwi S, Nassar A, Nuzzo PV, Kaymakcalan MD, Braun DA, Wei XX, Harshman LC, Bilen MA, Choueiri TK. Activity of cabozantinib after immune checkpoint blockade in metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma. Eur J Cancer 2020; 135:203-210. PubMed
  • Ravi P, Mantia C, Su C, Sorenson K, Elhag D, Rathi N, Bakouny Z, Agarwal N, Zakharia Y, Costello BA, McKay RR, Narayan V, Alva A, McGregor BA, Gao X, McDermott DF, Choueiri TK. Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Immunotherapy Rechallenge in Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma. JAMA Oncol 2020. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Gordon M, Flippot R, Agarwal N, George S, Quinn DI, Rogalski M, Hawthorne T, Keler T, Choueiri TK. Safety and efficacy of CDX-014, an antibody-drug conjugate directed against T cell immunoglobulin mucin-1 in advanced renal cell carcinoma. Invest New Drugs 2020. PubMed
  • Nuzzo PV, Pond GR, Abou Alaiwi S, Nassar AH, Flippot R, Curran C, Kilbridge KL, Wei XX, McGregor BA, Choueiri T, Harshman LC, Sonpavde G. Conditional immune toxicity rate in patients with metastatic renal and urothelial cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Abou Alaiwi S, Xie W, Nassar AH, Dudani S, Martini D, Bakouny Z, Steinharter JA, Nuzzo PV, Flippot R, Martinez-Chanza N, Wei X, McGregor BA, Kaymakcalan MD, Heng DYC, Bilen MA, Choueiri TK, Harshman LC. Safety and efficacy of restarting immune checkpoint inhibitors after clinically significant immune-related adverse events in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Savard MF, Wells JC, Graham J, Dudani S, Steinharter JA, McGregor BA, Donskov F, Bjarnason GA, Vaishampayan UN, Hansen AR, Iafolla MAJ, Zanotti G, Huynh L, Chang R, Duh MS, Heng DYC. Real-World Assessment of Clinical Outcomes Among First-Line Sunitinib Patients with Clear Cell Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (mRCC) by the International mRCC Database Consortium Risk Group. Oncologist 2020. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, McKay RR, Braun DA, Werner L, Gray K, Flaifel A, Signoretti S, Hirsch MS, Steinharter JA, Bakouny Z, Flippot R, Wei XX, Choudhury A, Kilbridge K, Freeman GJ, Van Allen EM, Harshman LC, McDermott DF, Vaishampayan U, Choueiri TK. Results of a Multicenter Phase II Study of Atezolizumab and Bevacizumab for Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma With Variant Histology and/or Sarcomatoid Features. J Clin Oncol 2020; 38:63-70. PubMed
  • Tripathi A, Lin E, Xie W, Flaifel A, Steinharter JA, Stern Gatof EN, Bouchard G, Fleischer JH, Martinez-Chanza N, Gray C, Mantia C, Thompson L, Wei XX, Giannakis M, McGregor BA, Choueiri TK, Agarwal N, McDermott DF, Signoretti S, Harshman LC. Prognostic significance and immune correlates of CD73 expression in renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Lalani AA, Xie W, Braun DA, Kaymakcalan M, Bossé D, Steinharter JA, Martini DJ, Simantov R, Lin X, Wei XX, McGregor BA, McKay RR, Harshman LC, Choueiri TK. Effect of Antibiotic Use on Outcomes with Systemic Therapies in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Eur Urol Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Sonpavde G. Enfortumab Vedotin, a fully human monoclonal antibody against Nectin 4 conjugated to monomethyl auristatin E for metastatic urothelial Carcinoma. Expert Opin Investig Drugs 2019. PubMed
  • Rosenberg JE, O'Donnell PH, Balar AV, McGregor BA, Heath EI, Yu EY, Galsky MD, Hahn NM, Gartner EM, Pinelli JM, Liang SY, Melhem-Bertrandt A, Petrylak DP. Pivotal Trial of Enfortumab Vedotin in Urothelial Carcinoma After Platinum and Anti-Programmed Death 1/Programmed Death Ligand 1 Therapy. J Clin Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Miller RE, O'Donnell E, Albiges LK, Sweeney CJ, Markt SC. Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Germ-Cell Tumors. Clin Genitourin Cancer 2019. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Sonpavde GP. Rare Genitourinary Malignancies: Current Status and Future Directions of Immunotherapy. Eur Urol Focus 2019. PubMed
  • Grivas P, Lalani AA, Pond GR, Nagy RJ, Faltas B, Agarwal N, Gupta SV, Drakaki A, Vaishampayan UN, Wang J, Barata PC, Gopalakrishnan D, Naik G, McGregor BA, Kiedrowski LA, Lanman RB, Sonpavde GP. Circulating Tumor DNA Alterations in Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma and Association with Clinical Outcomes: A Pilot Study. Eur Urol Oncol 2019. PubMed
  • Psutka SP, Chang SL, Cahn D, Uzzo RG, McGregor BA. Reassessing the Role of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma in 2019. Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book 2019; 39:276-283. PubMed
  • Lalani AA, McGregor BA, Albiges L, Choueiri TK, Motzer R, Powles T, Wood C, Bex A. Systemic Treatment of Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma in 2018: Current Paradigms, Use of Immunotherapy, and Future Directions. Eur Urol 2019; 75:100-110. PubMed
  • Vastola ME, Yang DD, Muralidhar V, Mahal BA, Lathan CS, McGregor BA, Nguyen PL. Laboratory Eligibility Criteria as Potential Barriers to Participation by Black Men in Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials. JAMA Oncol 2018; 4:413-414. PubMed
  • Lalani AA, Xie W, Martini DJ, Steinharter JA, Norton CK, Krajewski KM, Duquette A, Bossé D, Bellmunt J, Van Allen EM, McGregor BA, Creighton CJ, Harshman LC, Choueiri TK. Change in Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in response to immune checkpoint blockade for metastatic renal cell carcinoma. J Immunother Cancer 2018; 6:5. PubMed
  • Nassar AH, Lundgren K, Pomerantz M, Van Allen E, Harshman L, Choudhury AD, Preston MA, Steele GS, Mouw KW, Wei XX, McGregor BA, Choueiri TK, Bellmunt J, Kwiatkowski DJ, Sonpavde GP. Enrichment of FGFR3-TACC3 Fusions in Patients With Bladder Cancer Who Are Young, Asian, or Have Never Smoked. JCO Precis Oncol 2018. PubMed
  • Lalani AA, McGregor BA, Sonpavde GP, Choueiri TK. JAVELIN: avelumab another spear to fight urothelial carcinoma. Lancet Oncol. 2018; 19:5-7. PubMed
  • Lalani AA, Bossé D, McGregor BA, Choueiri TK. Immunotherapy in the Elderly. Eur Urol Focus 2017. PubMed
  • Pal SK, Sonpavde G, Agarwal N, Vogelzang NJ, Srinivas S, Haas NB, Signoretti S, McGregor BA, Jones J, Lanman RB, Banks KC, Choueiri TK. Evolution of Circulating Tumor DNA Profile from First-line to Subsequent Therapy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Eur Urol 2017. PubMed
  • McGregor BA, Brown AW, Osswald MB, Savona MR. The use of higher dose clofarabine in adults with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Am J Hematol 2009; 84:228-30. PubMed
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