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George D. Demetri, MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Phone: (617) 632-3985
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gdemetri@dfci.harvard.edu

George D. Demetri, MD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

EDUCATIONAL TITLES

  • Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Director, Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Quick Family Chair, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

DF/HCC PROGRAM AFFILIATION

DF/HCC ASSOCIATIONS

  • Co-Chair, Clinical Science Coordinating Committee

Research Abstract

Sarcomas are a microcosm of solid tumor oncology: different sarcomas are increasingly being defined by molecular signatures and biological characteristics rather than by simple histopathology. Our group is translating this research on the basic biology of sarcomas into new therapeutics directed at novel targets.

The foremost example of our team's work has been the development of tyrosine kinase inhibitors as effective therapies for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). By targeting the specific molecular signals of GIST, we have validated the concept that a human solid tumor can be treated by signal transduction inhibitors. This work led to the development and FDA approval of imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) as an effective therapy for patients with metastatic or unresectable GIST, and serves as the basis for our ongoing research in other novel agents, such as the kinase inhibitor SU11248. We also are developing additional molecular-targeted strategies to help us better understand and treat GIST.

Another example of molecular targeting of sarcomas in drug development is our pioneering interest in differentiation therapy for patients with liposarcomas (cancers of fat). This research targets a nuclear receptor known as PPARgamma, which plays a role in the normal development of fat cells, and induces differentiation in liposarcomas to decresase proliferation. Larger studies based on our pilot data are now being designed to test the clinical value of this treatment, which we are refining with newer agents and methods.

Our group also is developing other agents against sarcomas, such as the natural product known as ET-743, derived from a marine organism. This drug, which binds to the DNA minor groove, has shown important clinical activity against several subtypes of sarcomas both in the laboratory and in extensive clinical trials. We are optimizing the dosage for this agent and moving forward in collaboration with other cancer centers to test the worth of this new drug.

Our multidisciplinary research team, including dedicated representatives from surgical oncology, radiation oncology, pathology, and other clinical arenas, works closely with laboratory investigators so that we can offer new treatments with promise and scientific merit to patients with sarcomas of soft tissue and bone.

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  • Cote GM, Haddox CL, Choy E, Merriam PA, Mazzola E, Venkataraman V, Alcindor T, Wagner AJ, Demetri GD, George S. Safety And Efficacy Of Combination Lurbinectedin Plus Doxorubicin From A Phase 1b Trial In Patients With Advanced/Metastatic Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Clin Cancer Res 2024. PubMed
  • D'Angelo SP, Araujo DM, Abdul Razak AR, Agulnik M, Attia S, Blay JY, Carrasco Garcia I, Charlson JA, Choy E, Demetri GD, Druta M, Forcade E, Ganjoo KN, Glod J, Keedy VL, Le Cesne A, Liebner DA, Moreno V, Pollack SM, Schuetze SM, Schwartz GK, Strauss SJ, Tap WD, Thistlethwaite F, Valverde Morales CM, Wagner MJ, Wilky BA, McAlpine C, Hudson L, Navenot JM, Wang T, Bai J, Rafail S, Wang R, Sun A, Fernandes L, Van Winkle E, Elefant E, Lunt C, Norry E, Williams D, Biswas S, Van Tine BA. Afamitresgene autoleucel for advanced synovial sarcoma and myxoid round cell liposarcoma (SPEARHEAD-1): an international, open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet 2024; 403:1460-1471. PubMed
  • Kummar S, Shen L, Hong DS, McDermott R, Keedy VL, Casanova M, Demetri GD, Dowlati A, Melcón SG, Lassen UN, Leyvraz S, Liu T, Moreno V, Patel J, Patil T, Mallick AB, Sousa N, Tahara M, Ziegler DS, Norenberg R, Arvis P, Brega N, Drilon A, Tan DSW. Larotrectinib efficacy and safety in adult patients with tropomyosin receptor kinase fusion sarcomas. Cancer 2023; 129:3772-3782. PubMed
  • Heinrich MC, Corless CL, Demetri GD, Blanke CD, von Mehren M, Joensuu H, McGreevey LS, Chen CJ, Van den Abbeele AD, Druker BJ, Kiese B, Eisenberg B, Roberts PJ, Singer S, Fletcher CDM, Silberman S, Dimitrijevic S, Fletcher JA. Kinase Mutations and Imatinib Response in Patients With Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor. J Clin Oncol 2023; 41:4829-4836. PubMed
  • Bevill SM, Casaní-Galdón S, El Farran CA, Cytrynbaum EG, Macias KA, Oldeman SE, Oliveira KJ, Moore MM, Hegazi E, Adriaens C, Najm FJ, Demetri GD, Cohen S, Mullen JT, Riggi N, Johnstone SE, Bernstein BE. Impact of supraphysiologic MDM2 expression on chromatin networks and therapeutic responses in sarcoma. Cell Genom 2023; 3:100321. PubMed
  • Stacchiotti S, Maria Frezza A, Demetri GD, Blay JY, Bajpai J, Baldi GG, Baldini EH, Benjamin RS, Bonvalot S, Bovée JVMG, Callegaro D, Casali PG, D'Angelo SP, Davis EJ, Dei Tos AP, Demicco EG, Desai J, Dileo P, Eriksson M, Gelderblom H, George S, Gladdy RA, Gounder MM, Gupta AA, Haas R, Hayes A, Hohenberger P, Jones KB, Jones RL, Kasper B, Kawai A, Kirsch DG, Kleinerman ES, Le Cesne A, Maestro R, Martin Broto J, Maki RG, Miah AB, Palmerini E, Patel SR, Raut CP, Razak ARA, Reed DR, Rutkowski P, Sanfilippo RG, Sbaraglia M, Schaefer IM, Strauss DC, Strauss SJ, Tap WD, Thomas DM, Trama A, Trent JC, van der Graaf WTA, van Houdt WJ, von Mehren M, Wilky BA, Fletcher CDM, Gronchi A, Miceli R, Wagner AJ. Retrospective observational studies in ultra-rare sarcomas: A consensus paper from the Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS) community of experts on the minimum requirements for the evaluation of activity of systemic treatments. Cancer Treat Rev 2022; 110:102455. PubMed
  • Schaefer IM, Hemming ML, Lundberg MZ, Serrata MP, Goldaracena I, Liu N, Yin P, Paulo JA, Gygi SP, George S, Morgan JA, Bertagnolli MM, Sicinska ET, Chu C, Zheng S, Mariño-Enríquez A, Hornick JL, Raut CP, Ou WB, Demetri GD, Saka SK, Fletcher JA. Concurrent inhibition of CDK2 adds to the anti-tumour activity of CDK4/6 inhibition in GIST. Br J Cancer 2022. PubMed
  • Gyurdieva A, Zajic S, Chang YF, Houseman EA, Zhong S, Kim J, Nathenson M, Faitg T, Woessner M, Turner DC, Hasan AN, Glod J, Kaplan RN, D'Angelo SP, Araujo DM, Chow WA, Druta M, Demetri GD, Van Tine BA, Grupp SA, Fine GD, Eleftheriadou I. Biomarker correlates with response to NY-ESO-1 TCR T cells in patients with synovial sarcoma. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5296. PubMed
  • Neel DV, Ma C, Collins NB, Hornick JL, Demetri GD, Shulman DS. Derivation and validation of a risk classification tree for patients with synovial sarcoma. Cancer Med 2022. PubMed
  • Hemming ML, Bhola P, Loycano MA, Anderson JA, Taddei ML, Doyle LA, Lavrova E, Andersen JL, Klega KS, Benson MR, Crompton BD, Raut CP, George S, Letai A, Demetri GD, Sicinska E. Preclinical modeling of leiomyosarcoma identifies susceptibility to transcriptional CDK inhibitors through antagonism of E2F-driven oncogenic gene expression. Clin Cancer Res 2022. PubMed
  • Hibar DP, Demetri GD, Peters S, Davies J, Humblet O, Maund SL, Perez L. Real-world survival outcomes in patients with locally advanced or metastatic NTRK fusion-positive solid tumors receiving standard-of-care therapies other than targeted TRK inhibitors. PLoS ONE 2022; 17:e0270571. PubMed
  • Arondekar B, Duh MS, Bhak RH, DerSarkissian M, Huynh L, Wang K, Wojciehowski J, Wu M, Wornson B, Niyazov A, Demetri GD. Real-world Evidence in Support of Oncology Product Registration: A Systematic Review of New Drug Application and Biologics License Application Approvals from 2015-2020. Clin Cancer Res 2021. PubMed
  • García-Valverde A, Rosell J, Sayols S, Gómez-Peregrina D, Pilco-Janeta DF, Olivares-Rivas I, de Álava E, Maurel J, Rubió-Casadevall J, Esteve A, Gut M, Valverde C, Barretina J, Carles J, Demetri GD, Fletcher JA, Arribas J, Serrano C. E3 ubiquitin ligase Atrogin-1 mediates adaptive resistance to KIT-targeted inhibition in gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Oncogene 2021. PubMed
  • Bauer S, Demetri GD, Halilovic E, Dummer R, Meille C, Tan DSW, Guerreiro N, Jullion A, Ferretti S, Jeay S, Van Bree L, Hourcade-Potelleret F, Wuerthner JU, Fabre C, Cassier PA. Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic guided optimisation of dose and schedule of CGM097, an HDM2 inhibitor, in preclinical and clinical studies. Br J Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Jones RL, Herzog TJ, Patel SR, von Mehren M, Schuetze SM, Van Tine BA, Coleman RL, Knoblauch R, Triantos S, Hu P, Shalaby W, McGowan T, Monk BJ, Demetri GD. Cardiac safety of trabectedin monotherapy or in combination with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in patients with sarcomas and ovarian cancer. Cancer Med 2021. PubMed
  • Stacchiotti S, Frezza AM, Blay JY, Baldini EH, Bonvalot S, Bovée JVMG, Callegaro D, Casali PG, Chiang RC, Demetri GD, Demicco EG, Desai J, Eriksson M, Gelderblom H, George S, Gounder MM, Gronchi A, Gupta A, Haas RL, Hayes-Jardon A, Hohenberger P, Jones KB, Jones RL, Kasper B, Kawai A, Kirsch DG, Kleinerman ES, Le Cesne A, Lim J, Chirlaque López MD, Maestro R, Marcos-Gragera R, Martin Broto J, Matsuda T, Mir O, Patel SR, Raut CP, Razak ARA, Reed DR, Rutkowski P, Sanfilippo RG, Sbaraglia M, Schaefer IM, Strauss DC, Sundby Hall K, Tap WD, Thomas DM, van der Graaf WTA, van Houdt WJ, Visser O, von Mehren M, Wagner AJ, Wilky BA, Won YJ, Fletcher CDM, Dei Tos AP, Trama A. Ultra-rare sarcomas: A consensus paper from the Connective Tissue Oncology Society community of experts on the incidence threshold and the list of entities. Cancer 2021. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Luke JJ, Hollebecque A, Powderly JD, Spira AI, Subbiah V, Naumovski L, Chen C, Fang H, Lai DW, Yue H, Polepally AR, Purcell JW, Robinson R, Sharma P, Allison JP, Tolcher A, Villalobos VM. First-in-Human Phase I Study of ABBV-085, an Antibody-Drug Conjugate Targeting LRRC15, in Sarcomas and Other Advanced Solid Tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2021. PubMed
  • Kluetz PG, Keegan P, Demetri GD, Thornton K, Sul J, Kim J, Katzen H, Burke LB, Harvey RD, Alebachew E, Agrawal S, Nair A, Donoghue M, Pierce WF, Shord SS, Gao JJ, Pazdur R. FDA Oncology Center of Excellence Project Renewal: Engaging the Oncology Community to Update Product Labeling for Older Oncology Drugs. Clin Cancer Res 2021; 27:916-921. PubMed
  • Iida K, Abdelhamid Ahmed AH, Nagatsuma AK, Shibutani T, Yasuda S, Kitamura M, Hattori C, Abe M, Hasegawa J, Iguchi T, Karibe T, Nakada T, Inaki K, Kamei R, Abe Y, Nomura T, Andersen JL, Santagata S, Hemming ML, George S, Doi T, Ochiai A, Demetri GD, Agatsuma T. Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of GPR20, Selectively Expressed in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors, with DS-6157a, a First-In-Class Antibody-Drug Conjugate. 2021. PubMed
  • Hofheinz RD, Bruix J, Demetri GD, Grothey A, Marian M, Bartsch J, Odom D. Effect of Regorafenib in Delaying Definitive Deterioration in Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Cancer of Three Different Tumor Types. 2021; 13:5523-5533. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Stacchiotti S. Contributions of Real-World Evidence and Real-World Data to Decision-Making in the Management of Soft Tissue Sarcomas. Oncology 2021; 99 Suppl 1:3-7. PubMed
  • Gounder MM, Merriam P, Ratan R, Patel SR, Chugh R, Villalobos VM, Thornton M, Van Tine BA, Abdelhamid AH, Whalen J, Yang J, Rajarethinam A, Duh MS, Bobbili PJ, Huynh L, Totev TI, Lax AK, Agarwal S, Demetri GD. Real-world outcomes of patients with locally advanced or metastatic epithelioid sarcoma. Cancer 2020. PubMed
  • Hemming ML, Fan C, Raut CP, Demetri GD, Armstrong SA, Sicinska E, George S. Oncogenic gene expression programs in leiomyosarcoma and characterization of conventional, inflammatory and uterogenic subtypes. Mol Cancer Res 2020. PubMed
  • Blay JY, Le Cesne A, Demetri GD. The current reality of soft tissue sarcomas: advances, controversies, areas for improvement, and promising new treatments. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2020; 20:29-39. PubMed
  • Ben-Ami E, Perret R, Huang Y, Courgeon F, Gokhale PC, Laroche-Clary A, Eschle BK, Velasco V, Le Loarer F, Algeo MP, Purcell J, Demetri GD, Italiano A. LRRC15 Targeting in Soft-Tissue Sarcomas: Biological and Clinical Implications. Cancers (Basel) 2020. PubMed
  • Farago AF, Demetri GD. Larotrectinib, a selective tropomyosin receptor kinase inhibitor for adult and pediatric tropomyosin receptor kinase fusion cancers. Future Oncol 2020; 16:417-425. PubMed
  • Cote GM, Choy E, Chen T, Marino-Enriquez A, Morgan J, Merriam P, Thornton K, Wagner AJ, Nathenson MJ, Demetri G, George S. A phase II multi-strata study of lurbinectedin as a single agent or in combination with conventional chemotherapy in metastatic and/or unresectable sarcomas. Eur J Cancer 2020; 126:21-32. PubMed
  • Hemming ML, Nathenson MJ, Lin JR, Mei S, Du Z, Malik K, Marino-Enriquez A, Jagannathan JP, Sorger PK, Bertagnolli M, Sicinska E, Demetri GD, Santagata S. Response and mechanisms of resistance to larotrectinib and selitrectinib in metastatic undifferentiated sarcoma harboring oncogenic fusion of . JCO Precis Oncol 2020; 4:79-90. PubMed
  • Painter CA, Jain E, Tomson BN, Dunphy M, Stoddard RE, Thomas BS, Damon AL, Shah S, Kim D, Gómez Tejeda Zañudo J, Hornick JL, Chen YL, Merriam P, Raut CP, Demetri GD, Van Tine BA, Lander ES, Golub TR, Wagle N. The Angiosarcoma Project: enabling genomic and clinical discoveries in a rare cancer through patient-partnered research. Nat Med 2020; 26:181-187. PubMed
  • Gounder M, Schöffski P, Jones RL, Agulnik M, Cote GM, Villalobos VM, Attia S, Chugh R, Chen TW, Jahan T, Loggers ET, Gupta A, Italiano A, Demetri GD, Ratan R, Davis LE, Mir O, Dileo P, Van Tine BA, Pressey JG, Lingaraj T, Rajarethinam A, Sierra L, Agarwal S, Stacchiotti S. Tazemetostat in advanced epithelioid sarcoma with loss of INI1/SMARCB1: an international, open-label, phase 2 basket study. Lancet Oncol. 2020; 21:1423-1432. PubMed
  • Doebele RC, Drilon A, Paz-Ares L, Siena S, Shaw AT, Farago AF, Blakely CM, Seto T, Cho BC, Tosi D, Besse B, Chawla SP, Bazhenova L, Krauss JC, Chae YK, Barve M, Garrido-Laguna I, Liu SV, Conkling P, John T, Fakih M, Sigal D, Loong HH, Buchschacher GL, Garrido P, Nieva J, Steuer C, Overbeck TR, Bowles DW, Fox E, Riehl T, Chow-Maneval E, Simmons B, Cui N, Johnson A, Eng S, Wilson TR, Demetri GD, . Entrectinib in patients with advanced or metastatic NTRK fusion-positive solid tumours: integrated analysis of three phase 1-2 trials. Lancet Oncol. 2019. PubMed
  • Joseph J, Nathenson MJ, Trinh VA, Malik K, Nowell E, Carter K, Weathers SP, Demetri GD, Araujo D, Conley AP. Guillain-Barre syndrome observed with adoptive transfer of lymphocytes genetically engineered with an NY-ESO-1 reactive T-cell receptor. J Immunother Cancer 2019; 7:296. PubMed
  • Ramachandran I, Lowther DE, Dryer-Minnerly R, Wang R, Fayngerts S, Nunez D, Betts G, Bath N, Tipping AJ, Melchiori L, Navenot JM, Glod J, Mackall CL, D'Angelo SP, Araujo DM, Chow WA, Demetri GD, Druta M, Van Tine BA, Grupp SA, Abdul Razak AR, Wilky B, Iyengar M, Trivedi T, Winkle EV, Chagin K, Amado R, Binder GK, Basu S. Systemic and local immunity following adoptive transfer of NY-ESO-1 SPEAR T cells in synovial sarcoma. J Immunother Cancer 2019; 7:276. PubMed
  • Jones RL, Maki RG, Patel SR, Wang G, McGowan TA, Shalaby WS, Knoblauch RE, von Mehren M, Demetri GD. Safety and efficacy of trabectedin when administered in the inpatient versus outpatient setting: Clinical considerations for outpatient administration of trabectedin. Cancer 2019. PubMed
  • Ou WB, Ni N, Zuo R, Zhuang W, Zhu M, Kyriazoglou A, Wu D, Eilers G, Demetri GD, Qiu H, Li B, Marino-Enriquez A, Fletcher JA. Cyclin D1 is a mediator of gastrointestinal stromal tumor KIT-independence. Oncogene 2019; 38:6615-6629. PubMed
  • Serrano C, Leal A, Kuang Y, Morgan JA, Barysauskas CM, Phallen J, Triplett O, Mariño-Enríquez A, Wagner AJ, Demetri GD, Velculescu VE, Paweletz CP, Fletcher JA, George S. Phase I study of rapid alternation of sunitinib and regorafenib for the treatment of tyrosine-kinase inhibitor refractory gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2019. PubMed
  • Cesne AL, Bauer S, Demetri GD, Han G, Dezzani L, Ahmad Q, Blay JY, Judson I, Schöffski P, Aglietta M, Hohenberger P, Gelderblom H. Safety and efficacy of Pazopanib in advanced soft tissue sarcoma: PALETTE (EORTC 62072) subgroup analyses. BMC Cancer 2019; 19:794. PubMed
  • Lubberman FJE, van der Graaf WTA, Xu L, Cleton A, Demetri GD, Gelderblom H, van Erp NP. The effect of gastrectomy on regorafenib exposure and progression-free survival in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2019. PubMed
  • Patel S, von Mehren M, Reed DR, Kaiser P, Charlson J, Ryan CW, Rushing D, Livingston M, Singh A, Seth R, Forscher C, D'Amato G, Chawla SP, McCarthy S, Wang G, Parekh T, Knoblauch R, Hensley ML, Maki RG, Demetri GD. Overall survival and histology-specific subgroup analyses from a phase 3, randomized controlled study of trabectedin or dacarbazine in patients with advanced liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma. Cancer 2019. PubMed
  • Amin-Mansour A, George S, Sioletic S, Carter SL, Rosenberg M, Taylor-Weiner A, Stewart C, Chevalier A, Seepo S, Tracy A, Getz G, Hornick JL, Nucci MR, Quade B, Demetri GD, Raut CP, Garraway LA, Van Allen EM, Wagner AJ. Genomic evolutionary patterns of leiomyosarcoma and liposarcoma. Clin Cancer Res 2019. PubMed
  • Serrano C, Mariño-Enríquez A, Tao DL, Ketzer J, Eilers G, Zhu M, Yu C, Mannan AM, Rubin BP, Demetri GD, Raut CP, Presnell A, McKinley A, Heinrich MC, Czaplinski JT, Sicinska E, Bauer S, George S, Fletcher JA. Complementary activity of tyrosine kinase inhibitors against secondary kit mutations in imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumours. Br J Cancer 2019; 120:612-620. PubMed
  • Hemming ML, Lawlor MA, Andersen JL, Hagan T, Chipashvili O, Scott TG, Raut CP, Sicinska E, Armstrong SA, Demetri GD, Bradner JE. Enhancer Domains in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Regulate KIT Expression and Are Targetable by BET Bromodomain Inhibition. Cancer Res 2019; 79:994-1009. PubMed
  • Flavahan WA, Drier Y, Johnstone SE, Hemming ML, Tarjan DR, Hegazi E, Shareef SJ, Javed NM, Raut CP, Eschle BK, Gokhale PC, Hornick JL, Sicinska ET, Demetri GD, Bernstein BE. Altered chromosomal topology drives oncogenic programs in SDH-deficient GISTs. Nature 2019; 575:229-233. PubMed
  • Papadopoulos KP, Ben-Ami E, Patnaik A, Trone D, Li J, Demetri GD. Safety and tolerability of quizartinib, a FLT3 inhibitor, in advanced solid tumors: a phase 1 dose-escalation trial. BMC Cancer 2018; 18:790. PubMed
  • Hemming ML, Lawlor MA, Zeid R, Lesluyes T, Fletcher JA, Raut CP, Sicinska ET, Chibon F, Armstrong SA, Demetri GD, Bradner JE. Gastrointestinal stromal tumor enhancers support a transcription factor network predictive of clinical outcome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E5746-E5755. PubMed
  • Drilon A, Laetsch TW, Kummar S, DuBois SG, Lassen UN, Demetri GD, Nathenson M, Doebele RC, Farago AF, Pappo AS, Turpin B, Dowlati A, Brose MS, Mascarenhas L, Federman N, Berlin J, El-Deiry WS, Baik C, Deeken J, Boni V, Nagasubramanian R, Taylor M, Rudzinski ER, Meric-Bernstam F, Sohal DPS, Ma PC, Raez LE, Hechtman JF, Benayed R, Ladanyi M, Tuch BB, Ebata K, Cruickshank S, Ku NC, Cox MC, Hawkins DS, Hong DS, Hyman DM. Efficacy of Larotrectinib in TRK Fusion-Positive Cancers in Adults and Children. N Engl J Med 2018; 378:731-739. PubMed
  • Calvo E, Azaro A, Rodon J, Dirix L, Huizing M, Senecal FM, LoRusso P, Yee L, Poggesi I, de Jong J, Triantos S, Park YC, Knoblauch RE, Parekh TV, Demetri GD, von Mehren M. Hepatic safety analysis of trabectedin: results of a pharmacokinetic study with trabectedin in patients with hepatic impairment and experience from a phase 3 clinical trial. Invest New Drugs 2017. PubMed
  • Nakayama RT, Pulice JL, Valencia AM, McBride MJ, McKenzie ZM, Gillespie MA, Ku WL, Teng M, Cui K, Williams RT, Cassel SH, Qing H, Widmer CJ, Demetri GD, Irizarry RA, Zhao K, Ranish JA, Kadoch C. SMARCB1 is required for widespread BAF complex-mediated activation of enhancers and bivalent promoters. Nat Genet 2017. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Schöffski P, Grignani G, Blay JY, Maki RG, Van Tine BA, Alcindor T, Jones RL, D'Adamo DR, Guo M, Chawla S. Activity of Eribulin in Patients With Advanced Liposarcoma Demonstrated in a Subgroup Analysis From a Randomized Phase III Study of Eribulin Versus Dacarbazine. J Clin Oncol 2017. PubMed
  • Hensley ML, Patel SR, von Mehren M, Ganjoo K, Jones RL, Staddon A, Rushing D, Milhem M, Monk B, Wang G, McCarthy S, Knoblauch RE, Parekh TV, Maki RG, Demetri GD. Efficacy and safety of trabectedin or dacarbazine in patients with advanced uterine leiomyosarcoma after failure of anthracycline-based chemotherapy: Subgroup analysis of a phase 3, randomized clinical trial. Gynecol Oncol 2017. PubMed
  • Heinrich MC, Corless CL, Demetri GD. Defining the Impact of Adjuvant Therapy in Molecularly Defined Subsets of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor : From Lumping to Splitting. JAMA Oncol 2017. PubMed
  • Schaefer IM, Wang Y, Liang CW, Bahri N, Quattrone A, Doyle L, Mariño-Enríquez A, Lauria A, Zhu M, Debiec-Rychter M, Grunewald S, Hechtman JF, Dufresne A, Antonescu CR, Beadling C, Sicinska ET, van de Rijn M, Demetri GD, Ladanyi M, Corless CL, Heinrich MC, Raut CP, Bauer S, Fletcher JA. MAX inactivation is an early event in GIST development that regulates p16 and cell proliferation. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14674. PubMed
  • George S, Miao D, Demetri GD, Adeegbe D, Rodig SJ, Shukla S, Lipschitz M, Amin-Mansour A, Raut CP, Carter SL, Hammerman P, Freeman GJ, Wu CJ, Ott PA, Wong KK, Van Allen EM. Loss of PTEN Is Associated with Resistance to Anti-PD-1 Checkpoint Blockade Therapy in Metastatic Uterine Leiomyosarcoma. Immunity 2017; 46:197-204. PubMed
  • Heinrich M, Rankin C, Blanke CD, Demetri GD, Borden EC, Ryan CW, von Mehren M, Blackstein ME, Priebat DA, Tap WD, Maki RG, Corless CL, Fletcher JA, Owzar K, Crowley JJ, Benjamin RS, Baker LH. Correlation of Long-term Results of Imatinib in Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors With Next-Generation Sequencing Results: Analysis of Phase 3 SWOG Intergroup Trial S0033. JAMA Oncol 2017. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Blay JY, Casali PG. Advances and controversies in the management of soft tissue sarcomas. Future Oncol 2017; 13:3-11. PubMed
  • Wagner AJ, Agulnik M, Heinrich MC, Mahadevan D, Riedel RF, von Mehren M, Trent J, Demetri GD, Corless CL, Yule M, Lyons JF, Oganesian A, Keer H. Dose-escalation study of a second-generation non-ansamycin HSP90 inhibitor, onalespib (AT13387), in combination with imatinib in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumour. Eur J Cancer 2016; 61:94-101. PubMed
  • Schöffski P, Chawla S, Maki RG, Italiano A, Gelderblom H, Choy E, Grignani G, Camargo V, Bauer S, Rha SY, Blay JY, Hohenberger P, D'Adamo D, Guo M, Chmielowski B, Le Cesne A, Demetri GD, Patel SR. Eribulin versus dacarbazine in previously treated patients with advanced liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma: a randomised, open-label, multicentre, phase 3 trial. Lancet 2016; 387:1629-37. PubMed
  • Ben Ami E, Demetri GD. A safety evaluation of imatinib mesylate in the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Expert Opin Drug Saf 2016; 15:571-8. PubMed
  • Nakayama R, Zhang YX, Czaplinski JT, Anatone AJ, Sicinska ET, Fletcher JA, Demetri GD, Wagner AJ. Preclinical activity of selinexor, an inhibitor of XPO1, in sarcoma. 2016. PubMed
  • Yoo C, Ryu MH, Nam BH, Ryoo BY, Demetri GD, Kang YK. Impact of imatinib rechallenge on health-related quality of life in patients with TKI-refractory gastrointestinal stromal tumours: Sub-analysis of the placebo-controlled, randomised phase III trial (RIGHT). Eur J Cancer 2016; 52:201-8. PubMed
  • Reichardt P, Demetri GD, Gelderblom H, Rutkowski P, Im SA, Gupta S, Kang YK, Schöffski P, Schuette J, Soulières D, Blay JY, Goldstein D, Fly K, Huang X, Corsaro M, Lechuga MJ, Martini JF, Heinrich MC. Correlation of KIT and PDGFRA mutational status with clinical benefit in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor treated with sunitinib in a worldwide treatment-use trial. BMC Cancer 2016; 16:22. PubMed
  • Bellinger AM, Arteaga CL, Force T, Humphreys BD, Demetri GD, Druker BJ, Moslehi JJ. Cardio-Oncology: How New Targeted Cancer Therapies and Precision Medicine Can Inform Cardiovascular Discovery. Circulation 2015; 132:2248-58. PubMed
  • Komatsu Y, Doi T, Sawaki A, Kanda T, Yamada Y, Kuss I, Demetri GD, Nishida T. Regorafenib for advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors following imatinib and sunitinib treatment: a subgroup analysis evaluating Japanese patients in the phase III GRID trial. Int. J. Clin. Oncol. 2015. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, von Mehren M, Jones RL, Hensley ML, Schuetze SM, Staddon A, Milhem M, Elias A, Ganjoo K, Tawbi H, Van Tine BA, Spira A, Dean A, Khokhar NZ, Park YC, Knoblauch RE, Parekh TV, Maki RG, Patel SR. Efficacy and Safety of Trabectedin or Dacarbazine for Metastatic Liposarcoma or Leiomyosarcoma After Failure of Conventional Chemotherapy: Results of a Phase III Randomized Multicenter Clinical Trial. J Clin Oncol 2015. PubMed
  • Serrano C, Wang Y, Mariño-Enríquez A, Lee JC, Ravegnini G, Morgan JA, Bertagnolli MM, Beadling C, Demetri GD, Corless CL, Heinrich MC, Fletcher JA. KRAS and KIT Gatekeeper Mutations Confer Polyclonal Primary Imatinib Resistance in GI Stromal Tumors: Relevance of Concomitant Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/AKT Dysregulation. J Clin Oncol 2015. PubMed
  • Goldberg JM, Fisher DE, Demetri GD, Neuberg D, Allsop SA, Fonseca C, Nakazaki Y, Nemer D, Raut CP, George S, Morgan JA, Wagner AJ, Freeman GJ, Ritz J, Lezcano C, Mihm M, Canning C, Hodi FS, Dranoff G. Biologic Activity of Autologous, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Secreting Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma and Clear Cell Sarcoma Vaccines. Clin Cancer Res 2015. PubMed
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  • Reichardt P, Kang YK, Rutkowski P, Schuette J, Rosen LS, Seddon B, Yalcin S, Gelderblom H, Williams CC, Fumagalli E, Biasco G, Hurwitz HI, Kaiser PE, Fly K, Matczak E, Chen L, Lechuga MJ, Demetri GD. Clinical outcomes of patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors: safety and efficacy in a worldwide treatment-use trial of sunitinib. Cancer 2015. PubMed
  • Choy E, Flamand Y, Balasubramanian S, Butrynski JE, Harmon DC, George S, Cote GM, Wagner AJ, Morgan JA, Sirisawad M, Mani C, Hornicek FJ, Duan Z, Demetri GD. Phase 1 study of oral abexinostat, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, in combination with doxorubicin in patients with metastatic sarcoma. Cancer 2015; 121:1223-30. PubMed
  • Wagner MJ, Amodu LI, Duh MS, Korves C, Solleza F, Manson SC, Diaz J, Neary MP, Demetri GD. A retrospective chart review of drug treatment patterns and clinical outcomes among patients with metastatic or recurrent soft tissue sarcoma refractory to one or more prior chemotherapy treatments. BMC Cancer 2015; 15:175. PubMed
  • Tanguturi SK, George S, Marcus KJ, Demetri GD, Baldini EH. Whole Lung Irradiation in Adults with Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma: Practice Patterns and Implications for Treatment. Sarcoma 2015; 2015:591698. PubMed
  • George S, Barysauskas C, Serrano C, Oduyebo T, Rauh-Hain JA, Del Carmen MG, Demetri GD, Muto MG. Retrospective cohort study evaluating the impact of intraperitoneal morcellation on outcomes of localized uterine leiomyosarcoma. Cancer 2014. PubMed
  • Sioletic S, Czaplinski J, Hu L, Fletcher JA, Fletcher CD, Wagner AJ, Loda M, Demetri GD, Sicinska ET, Snyder EL. c-Jun promotes cell migration and drives expression of the motility factor ENPP2 in soft tissue sarcomas. J Pathol 2014. PubMed
  • Zhang YX, Sicinska E, Czaplinski JT, Remillard SP, Moss S, Wang Y, Brain C, Loo A, Snyder EL, Demetri GD, Kim S, Kung AL, Wagner AJ. Antiproliferative effects of CDK4/6 inhibition in CDK4-amplified human liposarcoma in vitro and in vivo. Mol Cancer Ther 2014; 13:2184-93. PubMed
  • Ewer MS, Suter TM, Lenihan DJ, Niculescu L, Breazna A, Demetri GD, Motzer RJ. Cardiovascular events among 1090 cancer patients treated with sunitinib, interferon, or placebo: a comprehensive adjudicated database analysis demonstrating clinically meaningful reversibility of cardiac events. Eur J Cancer 2014. PubMed
  • Wang Y, Marino-Enriquez A, Bennett RR, Zhu M, Shen Y, Eilers G, Lee JC, Henze J, Fletcher BS, Gu Z, Fox EA, Antonescu CR, Fletcher CD, Guo X, Raut CP, Demetri GD, van de Rijn M, Ordog T, Kunkel LM, Fletcher JA. Dystrophin is a tumor suppressor in human cancers with myogenic programs. Nat Genet 2014; 46:601-6. PubMed
  • Grothey A, George S, van Cutsem E, Blay JY, Sobrero A, Demetri GD. Optimizing treatment outcomes with regorafenib: personalized dosing and other strategies to support patient care. Oncologist 2014; 19:669-80. PubMed
  • Corless CL, Ballman KV, Antonescu CR, Kolesnikova V, Maki RG, Pisters PW, Blackstein ME, Blanke CD, Demetri GD, Heinrich MC, von Mehren M, Patel S, McCarter MD, Owzar K, DeMatteo RP. Pathologic and molecular features correlate with long-term outcome after adjuvant therapy of resected primary GI stromal tumor: the ACOSOG Z9001 trial. J Clin Oncol 2014. PubMed
  • George S, Feng Y, Manola J, Nucci MR, Butrynski JE, Morgan JA, Ramaiya N, Quek R, Penson RT, Wagner AJ, Harmon D, Demetri GD, Krasner C. Phase 2 trial of aromatase inhibition with letrozole in patients with uterine leiomyosarcomas expressing estrogen and/or progesterone receptors. Cancer 2014; 120:738-43. PubMed
  • Shinagare AB, Jagannathan JP, Kurra V, Urban T, Manola J, Choy E, Demetri GD, George S, Ramaiya NH. Comparison of performance of various tumour response criteria in assessment of regorafenib activity in advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours after failure of imatinib and sunitinib. Eur J Cancer 2014; 50:981-6. PubMed
  • de Wit D, van Erp NP, Khosravan R, Wiltshire R, Allred R, Demetri GD, Guchelaar HJ, Gelderblom H. Effect of gastrointestinal resection on sunitinib exposure in patients with GIST. BMC Cancer 2014; 14:575. PubMed
  • Choy E, Butrynski JE, Harmon DC, Morgan JA, George S, Wagner AJ, D'Adamo D, Cote GM, Flamand Y, Benes CH, Haber DA, Baselga JM, Demetri GD. Phase II study of olaparib in patients with refractory Ewing sarcoma following failure of standard chemotherapy. BMC Cancer 2014; 14:813. PubMed
  • Wagner AJ, Chugh R, Rosen LS, Morgan JA, George S, Gordon M, Dunbar J, Normant E, Grayzel D, Demetri GD. A phase I study of the HSP90 inhibitor retaspimycin hydrochloride (IPI-504) in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors or soft-tissue sarcomas. Clin Cancer Res 2013; 19:6020-9. PubMed
  • Kang YK, Ryu MH, Yoo C, Ryoo BY, Kim HJ, Lee JJ, Nam BH, Ramaiya N, Jagannathan J, Demetri GD. Resumption of imatinib to control metastatic or unresectable gastrointestinal stromal tumours after failure of imatinib and sunitinib (RIGHT): a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol 2013; 14:1175-82. PubMed
  • Hodi FS, Corless CL, Giobbie-Hurder A, Fletcher JA, Zhu M, Marino-Enriquez A, Friedlander P, Gonzalez R, Weber JS, Gajewski TF, O'Day SJ, Kim KB, Lawrence D, Flaherty KT, Luke JJ, Collichio FA, Ernstoff MS, Heinrich MC, Beadling C, Zukotynski KA, Yap JT, Van den Abbeele AD, Demetri GD, Fisher DE. Imatinib for melanomas harboring mutationally activated or amplified KIT arising on mucosal, acral, and chronically sun-damaged skin. J Clin Oncol 2013; 31:3182-90. PubMed
  • DeMatteo RP, Ballman KV, Antonescu CR, Corless C, Kolesnikova V, von Mehren M, McCarter MD, Norton J, Maki RG, Pisters PW, Demetri GD, Brennan MF, Owzar K, . Long-term results of adjuvant imatinib mesylate in localized, high-risk, primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor: ACOSOG Z9000 (Alliance) intergroup phase 2 trial. Ann Surg 2013; 258:422-9. PubMed
  • Zhang YX, van Oosterwijk JG, Sicinska E, Moss S, Remillard SP, van Wezel T, Bühnemann C, Hassan AB, Demetri GD, Bovée JV, Wagner AJ. Functional profiling of receptor tyrosine kinases and downstream signaling in human chondrosarcomas identifies pathways for rational targeted therapy. Clin Cancer Res 2013; 19:3796-807. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Chawla SP, Ray-Coquard I, Le Cesne A, Staddon AP, Milhem MM, Penel N, Riedel RF, Bui-Nguyen B, Cranmer LD, Reichardt P, Bompas E, Alcindor T, Rushing D, Song Y, Lee RM, Ebbinghaus S, Eid JE, Loewy JW, Haluska FG, Dodion PF, Blay JY. Results of an international randomized phase III trial of the mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor ridaforolimus versus placebo to control metastatic sarcomas in patients after benefit from prior chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol 2013; 31:2485-92. PubMed
  • Hollebecque A, Postel-Vinay S, Verweij J, Demetri GD, Flaherty K, Bedard P, Soria JC. Modifying phase I methodology to facilitate enrolment of molecularly selected patients. Eur J Cancer 2013; 49:1515-20. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Reichardt P, Kang YK, Blay JY, Rutkowski P, Gelderblom H, Hohenberger P, Leahy M, von Mehren M, Joensuu H, Badalamenti G, Blackstein M, Le Cesne A, Schöffski P, Maki RG, Bauer S, Nguyen BB, Xu J, Nishida T, Chung J, Kappeler C, Kuss I, Laurent D, Casali PG, . Efficacy and safety of regorafenib for advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours after failure of imatinib and sunitinib (GRID): an international, multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet 2013; 381:295-302. PubMed
  • Tomasetti C, Demetri GD, Parmigiani G. Why tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance is common in advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors. F1000Res 2013; 2:152. PubMed
  • Wagner AJ, Goldberg JM, Dubois SG, Choy E, Rosen L, Pappo A, Geller J, Judson I, Hogg D, Senzer N, Davis IJ, Chai F, Waghorne C, Schwartz B, Demetri GD. Tivantinib (ARQ 197), a selective inhibitor of MET, in patients with microphthalmia transcription factor-associated tumors: results of a multicenter phase 2 trial. Cancer 2012. PubMed
  • Le Cesne A, Cresta S, Maki RG, Blay JY, Verweij J, Poveda A, Casali PG, Balaña C, Schöffski P, Grosso F, Lardelli P, Nieto A, Alfaro V, Demetri GD. A retrospective analysis of antitumour activity with trabectedin in translocation-related sarcomas. Eur J Cancer 2012; 48:3036-44. PubMed
  • Pishvaian MJ, Marshall JL, Wagner AJ, Hwang JJ, Malik S, Cotarla I, Deeken JF, He AR, Daniel H, Halim AB, Zahir H, Copigneaux C, Liu K, Beckman RA, Demetri GD. A phase 1 study of efatutazone, an oral peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonist, administered to patients with advanced malignancies. Cancer 2012; 118:5403-13. PubMed
  • de Jesus-Gonzalez N, Robinson E, Penchev R, von Mehren M, Heinrich MC, Tap W, Wang Q, Demetri G, George S, Humphreys BD. Regorafenib induces rapid and reversible changes in plasma nitric oxide and endothelin-1. Am J Hypertens 2012; 25:1118-23. PubMed
  • George S, Wang Q, Heinrich MC, Corless CL, Zhu M, Butrynski JE, Morgan JA, Wagner AJ, Choy E, Tap WD, Yap JT, Van den Abbeele AD, Manola JB, Solomon SM, Fletcher JA, von Mehren M, Demetri GD. Efficacy and safety of regorafenib in patients with metastatic and/or unresectable GI stromal tumor after failure of imatinib and sunitinib: a multicenter phase II trial. J Clin Oncol 2012; 30:2401-7. PubMed
  • McCarter MD, Antonescu CR, Ballman KV, Maki RG, Pisters PW, Demetri GD, Blanke CD, von Mehren M, Brennan MF, McCall L, Ota DM, DeMatteo RP, . Microscopically positive margins for primary gastrointestinal stromal tumors: analysis of risk factors and tumor recurrence. J Am Coll Surg 2012; 215:53-9; discussion 59-60. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Garrett CR, Schöffski P, Shah MH, Verweij J, Leyvraz S, Hurwitz HI, Pousa AL, Le Cesne A, Goldstein D, Paz-Ares L, Blay JY, McArthur GA, Xu QC, Huang X, Harmon CS, Tassell V, Cohen DP, Casali PG. Complete longitudinal analyses of the randomized, placebo-controlled, phase III trial of sunitinib in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor following imatinib failure. Clin Cancer Res 2012; 18:3170-9. PubMed
  • Blay JY, Demetri GD. The evolution of a revolutionary class: extending benefits of tyrosine kinase inhibitors--introduction. Semin Oncol 2011; 38 Suppl 1:S1-2. PubMed
  • Demetri GD. Differential properties of current tyrosine kinase inhibitors in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Semin Oncol 2011; 38 Suppl 1:S10-9. PubMed
  • Quek R, Wang Q, Morgan JA, Shapiro GI, Butrynski JE, Ramaiya N, Huftalen T, Jederlinic N, Manola J, Wagner AJ, Demetri GD, George S. Combination mTOR and IGF-1R inhibition: phase I trial of everolimus and figitumumab in patients with advanced sarcomas and other solid tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2011; 17:871-9. PubMed
  • Janeway KA, Kim SY, Lodish M, Nosé V, Rustin P, Gaal J, Dahia PL, Liegl B, Ball ER, Raygada M, Lai AH, Kelly L, Hornick JL, , O'Sullivan M, de Krijger RR, Dinjens WN, Demetri GD, Antonescu CR, Fletcher JA, Helman L, Stratakis CA. Defects in succinate dehydrogenase in gastrointestinal stromal tumors lacking KIT and PDGFRA mutations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:314-8. PubMed
  • Sasaki T, Okuda K, Zheng W, Butrynski J, Capelletti M, Wang L, Gray NS, Wilner K, Christensen JG, Demetri G, Shapiro GI, Rodig SJ, Eck MJ, Jänne PA. The neuroblastoma-associated F1174L ALK mutation causes resistance to an ALK kinase inhibitor in ALK-translocated cancers. Cancer Res 2010; 70:10038-43. PubMed
  • Janeway KA, Zhu MJ, Barretina J, Perez-Atayde A, Demetri GD, Fletcher JA. Strong expression of IGF1R in pediatric gastrointestinal stromal tumors without IGF1R genomic amplification. Int J Cancer 2010; 127:2718-22. PubMed
  • Butrynski JE, D'Adamo DR, Hornick JL, Dal Cin P, Antonescu CR, Jhanwar SC, Ladanyi M, Capelletti M, Rodig SJ, Ramaiya N, Kwak EL, Clark JW, Wilner KD, Christensen JG, Jänne PA, Maki RG, Demetri GD, Shapiro GI. Crizotinib in ALK-rearranged inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. N Engl J Med 2010; 363:1727-33. PubMed
  • Demetri GD. Disease state awareness in sarcoma. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol 2010; 8:543-5. PubMed
  • Houk BE, Bello CL, Poland B, Rosen LS, Demetri GD, Motzer RJ. Relationship between exposure to sunitinib and efficacy and tolerability endpoints in patients with cancer: results of a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic meta-analysis. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2010; 66:357-71. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Antonia S, Benjamin RS, Bui MM, Casper ES, Conrad EU, Delaney TF, Ganjoo KN, Heslin MJ, Hutchinson RJ, Kane JM, Letson GD, McGarry SV, O'Donnell RJ, Paz IB, Pfeifer JD, Pollock RE, Randall RL, Riedel RF, Schupak KD, Schwartz HS, Thornton K, von Mehren M, Wayne J. Soft tissue sarcoma. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2010; 8:630-74. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, von Mehren M, Antonescu CR, DeMatteo RP, Ganjoo KN, Maki RG, Pisters PW, Raut CP, Riedel RF, Schuetze S, Sundar HM, Trent JC, Wayne JD. NCCN Task Force report: update on the management of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2010; 8 Suppl 2:S1-41; quiz S42-4. PubMed
  • Wagner AJ, Malinowska-Kolodziej I, Morgan JA, Qin W, Fletcher CD, Vena N, Ligon AH, Antonescu CR, Ramaiya NH, Demetri GD, Kwiatkowski DJ, Maki RG. Clinical activity of mTOR inhibition with sirolimus in malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumors: targeting the pathogenic activation of mTORC1 in tumors. J Clin Oncol 2010; 28:835-40. PubMed
  • Rubin BP, Blanke CD, Demetri GD, Dematteo RP, Fletcher CD, Goldblum JR, Lasota J, Lazar A, Maki RG, Miettinen M, Noffsinger A, Washington MK, Krausz T, . Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2010; 134:165-70. PubMed
  • Raut CP, Wang Q, Manola J, Morgan JA, George S, Wagner AJ, Butrynski JE, Fletcher CD, Demetri GD, Bertagnolli MM. Cytoreductive surgery in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor treated with sunitinib malate. Ann Surg Oncol 2010; 17:407-15. PubMed
  • Theman TA, Hartzell TL, Sinha I, Polson K, Morgan J, Demetri GD, Orgill DP, George S. Recognition of a new chemotherapeutic vesicant: trabectedin (ecteinascidin-743) extravasation with skin and soft tissue damage. J Clin Oncol 2009; 27:e198-200. PubMed
  • Ganjoo KN, Demetri GD, Jacobs C, Patel S. Acute myeloid leukemia in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors treated with Gleevec. Leuk Lymphoma 2009; 50:1882-4. PubMed
  • Raut CP, Nucci MR, Wang Q, Manola J, Bertagnolli MM, Demetri GD, Morgan JA, Muto MG, Fletcher CD, George S. Predictive value of FIGO and AJCC staging systems in patients with uterine leiomyosarcoma. Eur J Cancer 2009; 45:2818-24. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Lo Russo P, MacPherson IR, Wang D, Morgan JA, Brunton VG, Paliwal P, Agrawal S, Voi M, Evans TR. Phase I dose-escalation and pharmacokinetic study of dasatinib in patients with advanced solid tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2009; 15:6232-40. PubMed
  • Deprimo SE, Huang X, Blackstein ME, Garrett CR, Harmon CS, Schöffski P, Shah MH, Verweij J, Baum CM, Demetri GD. Circulating levels of soluble KIT serve as a biomarker for clinical outcome in gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients receiving sunitinib following imatinib failure. Clin Cancer Res 2009; 15:5869-77. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Heinrich MC, Fletcher JA, Fletcher CD, Van den Abbeele AD, Corless CL, Antonescu CR, George S, Morgan JA, Chen MH, Bello CL, Huang X, Cohen DP, Baum CM, Maki RG. Molecular target modulation, imaging, and clinical evaluation of gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients treated with sunitinib malate after imatinib failure. Clin Cancer Res 2009; 15:5902-9. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Casali PG, Blay JY, von Mehren M, Morgan JA, Bertulli R, Ray-Coquard I, Cassier P, Davey M, Borghaei H, Pink D, Debiec-Rychter M, Cheung W, Bailey SM, Veronese ML, Reichardt A, Fumagalli E, Reichardt P. A phase I study of single-agent nilotinib or in combination with imatinib in patients with imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2009; 15:5910-6. PubMed
  • Demetri GD, Chawla SP, von Mehren M, Ritch P, Baker LH, Blay JY, Hande KR, Keohan ML, Samuels BL, Schuetze S, Lebedinsky C, Elsayed YA, Izquierdo MA, Gómez J, Park YC, Le Cesne A. Efficacy and safety of trabectedin in patients with advanced or metastatic liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma after failure of prior anthracyclines and ifosfamide: results of a randomized phase II study of two different schedules. J Clin Oncol 2009; 27:4188-96. PubMed
  • Benjamin RS, Debiec-Rychter M, Le Cesne A, Sleijfer S, Demetri GD, Joensuu H, Schöffski P, Poveda A. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors II: medical oncology and tumor response assessment. Semin Oncol 2009; 36:302-11. PubMed
  • George S,Merriam P,Maki RG,Van den Abbeele AD,Yap JT,Akhurst T,Harmon DC,Bhuchar G,O'Mara MM,D'Adamo DR,Morgan J,Schwartz GK,Wagner AJ,Butrynski JE,Demetri GD,Keohan ML. Multicenter Phase II Trial of Sunitinib in the Treatment of Nongastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Sarcomas. J Clin Oncol 2009; 27:3154-60. PubMed
  • Demetri GD,Wang Y,Wehrle E,Racine A,Nikolova Z,Blanke CD,Joensuu H,von Mehren M. Imatinib Plasma Levels Are Correlated With Clinical Benefit in Patients With Unresectable/Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors. J Clin Oncol 2009; 27:3141-7. PubMed
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  • Demetri GD. Therapeutic monitoring of drug plasma concentrations and improved clinical outcomes in GIST. Clin Adv Hematol Oncol 2009; 7:S6-7. PubMed
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  • Eisenberg BL,Harris J,Blanke CD,Demetri GD,Heinrich MC,Watson JC,Hoffman JP,Okuno S,Kane JM,von Mehren M. Phase II trial of neoadjuvant/adjuvant imatinib mesylate (IM) for advanced primary and metastatic/recurrent operable gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST): early results of RTOG 0132/ACRIN 6665. J Surg Oncol 2009; 99:42-7. PubMed
  • Jiang X,Zhou J,Yuen NK,Corless CL,Heinrich MC,Fletcher JA,Demetri GD,Widlund HR,Fisher DE,Hodi FS. Imatinib targeting of KIT-mutant oncoprotein in melanoma. Clin Cancer Res 2008; 14:7726-32. PubMed
  • Baker LH,Rowinsky EK,Mendelson D,Humerickhouse RA,Knight RA,Qian J,Carr RA,Gordon GB,Demetri GD. Randomized, phase II study of the thrombospondin-1-mimetic angiogenesis inhibitor ABT-510 in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma. J Clin Oncol 2008; 26:5583-8. PubMed
  • Heinrich MC,Owzar K,Corless CL,Hollis D,Borden EC,Fletcher CD,Ryan CW,von Mehren M,Blanke CD,Rankin C,Benjamin RS,Bramwell VH,Demetri GD,Bertagnolli MM,Fletcher JA. Correlation of kinase genotype and clinical outcome in the North American Intergroup Phase III Trial of imatinib mesylate for treatment of advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor: CALGB 150105 Study by Cancer and Leukemia Group B and Southwest Oncology Gr J Clin Oncol 2008; 26:5360-7. PubMed
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  • Liu MC, Demetri GD, Berry DA, Norton L, Broadwater G, Robert NJ, Duggan D, Hayes DF, Henderson IC, Lyss A, Hopkins J, Kaufman PA, Marcom PK, Younger J, Lin N, Tkaczuk K, Winer EP, Hudis CA. Dose-escalation of filgrastim does not improve efficacy: Clinical tolerability and long-term follow-up on CALGB study 9141 adjuvant chemotherapy for node-positive breast cancer patients using dose-intensified doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide followed by Cancer Treat Rev 2008; 34:223-230. PubMed
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  • Patel TV, Morgan JA, Demetri GD, George S, Maki RG, Quigley M, Humphreys BD. A preeclampsia-like syndrome characterized by reversible hypertension and proteinuria induced by the multitargeted kinase inhibitors sunitinib and sorafenib. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008; 100:282-4. PubMed
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