Scholars@Duke
Dillon Cockrell

Dillon Cockrell

Medical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine
Medicine, Medical Oncology

Scholarly Works

Clinical and genomic predictors of sipuleucel-T outcomes in men with metastatic androgen pathway modulator resistant prostate cancer.

Journal article Res Sq · July 1, 2026 BACKGROUND Survival outcomes following sipuleucel-T in men with metastatic androgen pathway modulator resistant prostate cancer (mAPMR) are variable. Genomic alterations influencing immune response and tumor proliferation may explain outcome heterogeneity. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessment of Fellowship Didactic Curricula in Hematology/Oncology: Cross-Sectional Findings From the PODCAST-HOF Trial.

Journal article J Cancer Educ · February 6, 2026 Didactic lectures play an important role in hematology/oncology fellowship education. How each program structures their curricula is determined independently. To improve the trainee experience, identifying best practices is essential, but limited data abou ... Full text Link to item Cite

Educational Impact of a Podcast Curriculum for Hematology/Oncology Fellows: Final Results of the Multicenter Cluster Randomized PODCAST-HOF Trial.

Journal article JCO Oncol Pract · October 2025 PURPOSE: Medical podcast integration into hematology/oncology fellowship curricula remains largely unstudied. We conducted a multicenter cluster randomized trial to evaluate the educational impact of a podcast-based curriculum (PC) when delivered alongside ... Full text Link to item Cite

Supporting our survivors: an evaluation of the facilitators and barriers to advocacy in cervical and breast cancer survivors.

Journal article Oncologist · July 4, 2025 PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate the facilitators and barriers to self-advocacy and advocacy in the community of cervical and breast cancer survivors. METHODS: A mixed-methods approach was used to collect data from patients with breast and cervical ca ... Full text Link to item Cite

Linking comfort levels and knowledge gaps in hematology/oncology (HO) fellowship education: Insights from a multicenter survey.

Conference Journal of Clinical Oncology · June 2025 9030Background: HO fellowship programs lack standardized educational approaches. This can impact learning & self-assessme ... Full text Cite

Current Status of Perioperative Therapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer and Future Directions.

Journal article Curr Oncol Rep · May 2023 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy has been a standard of care in the perioperative management of muscle-invasive bladder cancer for years, but several novel therapies are under active investigation. This review aims to provide an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Emergency department visits and hospitalizations in older women treated for early stage breast cancer.

Journal article J Geriatr Oncol · March 2023 INTRODUCTION: Older patients with cancer often require acute care treatment through emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations. This study investigates acute care utilization through ED visits and hospitalizations during treatment and in the two ... Full text Link to item Cite

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura associated with Pembrolizumab.

Journal article J Oncol Pharm Pract · June 2022 INTRODUCTION: Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a life threatening type of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) caused by a deficiency in ADAMTS13. Here, we describe a case of TTP in association with pembrolizumab treatment for metastatic urothelial ... Full text Link to item Cite

Secondary Immune Thrombocytopenia in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report and Discussion of the Literature

Journal article Case Reports in Oncology · November 25, 2020 Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome of solid tumor malignancies. In previously described cases of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) associated with secondary ITP, treatment has consisted of nephrectomy, splenectomy, and corticosteroids ... Full text Cite

Predicting Time From Metastasis to Overall Survival in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Results From SEARCH.

Journal article Clin Genitourin Cancer · February 2017 OBJECTIVE: To identify the predictors of time from initial diagnosis of metastatic castration-resistance prostate cancer (mCRPC) to all-cause death within the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital cohort. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We performed a retrosp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of Time to Metastasis in Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer.

Journal article Urology · October 2016 OBJECTIVE: To investigate predictors of time to metastasis among men treated with androgen deprivation therapy for nonmetastatic prostate cancer who developed castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) within the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting bone scan positivity in non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Journal article Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis · December 2015 BACKGROUND: To evaluate PSA levels and kinetic cutoffs to predict positive bone scans for men with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) cohort. METHODS: Retrospective anal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Practice patterns and predictors of followup imaging after a negative bone scan in men with castration resistant prostate cancer: results from the SEARCH database.

Journal article J Urol · April 2015 PURPOSE: We investigated imaging practice patterns in men with nonmetastatic (M0) castration resistant prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed data on 247 patients with documented M0 CRPC from the SEARCH database. Patients were selected regardl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neural mechanisms of negative reinforcement in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.

Journal article J Neurodev Disord · 2015 BACKGROUND: Previous research has found accumulating evidence for atypical reward processing in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), particularly in the context of social rewards. Yet, this line of research has focused largely on positive social reinforcement, ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite