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Paul Patrick Koffer

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology · 2025 - Present Radiation Oncology, Clinical Science Departments

Recent Scholarly Works


Second Therapeutic Freeze After Salvage Cryoablation for Localized Radiorecurrent Prostate Cancer.

Journal article Prostate · June 2026 OBJECTIVE: To report long-term oncologic and functional outcomes of a second therapeutic freeze (STF) after salvage cryoablation (sCryo) for biopsy-proven persistence following radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospect ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluation of post radiotherapy PSA as a prognostic and predictive biomarker in high risk prostate cancer: A secondary analysis of RTOG 0521.

Conference Journal of Clinical Oncology · February 10, 2025 384Background: RTOG 0521 was a randomized trial of radiotherapy (RT) and 24 months of androgen deprivation (ADT) with and wit ... Full text Cite

TRAIL agonists rescue mice from radiation-induced lung, skin, or esophageal injury.

Journal article J Clin Invest · January 14, 2025 Radiotherapy can be limited by pneumonitis, which is impacted by innate immunity, including pathways regulated by TRAIL death receptor DR5. We investigated whether DR5 agonists could rescue mice from toxic effects of radiation and found that 2 different ag ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Education


Temple University, School of Medicine · 2013 M.D.
University of Pennsylvania · 2009 B.A.