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Susan Grams Robison McDuff

Susan Grams Robison McDuff

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology
susan.mcduff@duke.edu
30 Duke Medicine Circle, Box 3085, Durham, NC 27710
30 Duke Medicine Circle, Box 3085, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Pre-operative Radiation and Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Non-metastatic Breast Cancer

Journal Article Current Breast Cancer Reports · September 1, 2023 Purpose of Review: To discuss the rationale and latest strategies for combining pre-operative radiation therapy (pre-op RT) and immunotherapy (IO) in the treatment of non-metastatic breast cancer. Recent Findings: IO has recently been incorporated into the ... Full text Cite

De-escalation in DCIS Care

Journal Article Current Breast Cancer Reports · March 1, 2023 Purpose of Review: Standard DCIS management consists of surgery with consideration of adjuvant radiation and endocrine therapy. However, widespread recognition of the overdiagnosis and overtreatment burden in DCIS has led to a reevaluation of this standard ... Full text Cite

Optimizing Adjuvant Treatment Recommendations for Older Women with Biologically Favorable Breast Cancer: Short-Course Radiation or Long-Course Endocrine Therapy?

Journal Article Curr Oncol · December 27, 2022 Omission of radiotherapy among older women taking 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy following breast conserving surgery for early-stage, hormone sensitive breast cancers is well-studied. However, endocrine therapy toxicities are significant, and many w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Postoperative Comprehensive Radiation with Curative Intent.

Journal Article Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · July 1, 2022 Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Cancer

Chapter · 2022 Cite

Breast Cancer

Chapter · 2022 Cite

Dosimetric variation in preoperative partial breast radiosurgery assessed by deformable image registrations.

Journal Article J Radiosurg SBRT · 2022 OBJECTIVE: To assess dosimetric variation caused by breast deformation in breast radiosurgery based on deformable image registration. METHODS: This study included 30 patients who were treated in the prone position for preoperative partial breast radiosurge ... Link to item Cite

Prospective Longitudinal Assessment of Health-related Quality of Life in Patients With Brain Metastases Undergoing Radiation Therapy.

Journal Article Am J Clin Oncol · October 1, 2021 OBJECTIVE: We conducted a prospective clinical trial of patients receiving radiation (RT) for brain metastases to identify clinical predictors of pre-RT and post-RT health-related quality of life (hrQoL). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with brain metastas ... Full text Link to item Cite

ATM Variants in Breast Cancer: Implications for Breast Radiation Therapy Treatment Recommendations.

Journal Article Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · August 1, 2021 PURPOSE: Advances in germline genetic testing have led to a surge in identification of ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) variant carriers among breast cancer patients, raising numerous questions regarding use of breast radiation therapy (RT) in this popu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Survival among patients with untreated metastatic breast cancer.

Conference Journal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021 1095 Background: Treatments for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) have significantly improved survival for patients who receive treatment, yet data describing the prognosis for untreated patients is lacking. Therefore, we sought to ... Full text Cite

Oligometastatic breast cancer: where are we now and where are we headed?-a narrative review.

Journal Article Annals of palliative medicine · May 2021 Metastatic breast cancer has traditionally been considered incurable, with treatments focused on systemic therapies and palliative local treatment. However, evidence is emerging that in some patients with limited metastatic disease, or "oligometastatic dis ... Full text Cite

Clinical Experience With Machine Learning-Based Automated Treatment Planning for Whole Breast Radiation Therapy.

Journal Article Adv Radiat Oncol · 2021 PURPOSE: The machine learning-based automated treatment planning (MLAP) tool has been developed and evaluated for breast radiation therapy planning at our institution. We implemented MLAP for patient treatment and assessed our clinical experience for its p ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Circulating Tumor DNA Predicts Pathologic and Clinical Outcomes Following Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation and Surgery for Patients With Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer.

Journal Article JCO Precis Oncol · 2021 PURPOSE: This study was designed to assess the ability of perioperative circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to predict surgical outcome and recurrence following neoadjuvant chemoradiation for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty-n ... Full text Link to item Cite

Surgery for Men with Breast Cancer: Do the Same Data Still Apply?

Journal Article Ann Surg Oncol · November 2020 BACKGROUND: Men represent a small proportion of breast cancer diagnoses, and they are often excluded from clinical trials. Current treatments are largely extrapolated from evidence in women. We compare practice patterns between men and women with breast ca ... Full text Link to item Cite

Surgical Management of the Axilla in Elderly Women With Node-Positive Breast Cancer.

Journal Article J Surg Res · October 2020 BACKGROUND: Elderly women with clinically node-positive (cN+) breast cancer (BC) often have comorbidities that limit life expectancy and complicate treatment. We sought to determine whether the number of lymph nodes (LNs) retrieved among older women with n ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiation and chemotherapy for high-risk lower grade gliomas: Choosing between temozolomide and PCV.

Journal Article Cancer Med · January 2020 PURPOSE: The majority of patients with high-risk lower grade gliomas (LGG) are treated with single-agent temozolomide (TMZ) and radiotherapy despite three randomized trials showing a striking overall survival benefit with adjuvant procarbazine, lomustine, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical Experience of the Machine Learning-based Automated Treatment Planning Tool for Breast Radiotherapy

Conference INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS · 2020 Cite

Combining Radiation Therapy with Immune Checkpoint Blockadein Breast Cancer

Journal Article Current Breast Cancer Reports · December 1, 2019 Purpose of Review: Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is an emerging therapy in breast cancer. Its optimal integration with radiation therapy (RT) for breast cancer remains to be established. Herein, we review the current evidence on combining ICB and RT in ... Full text Cite

Timing of lymphedema after treatment for breast cancer: When are patients most at risk?

Journal Article International Journal of Radiation Oncology* Biology* Physics · 2019 Cite

Quality of Life (QOL) in Patients Undergoing Intracranial Radiation Therapy (RT)

Journal Article International Journal of Radiation Oncology• Biology• Physics · 2016 Cite

Reply to Maguire and Hassabis: Autobiographical memory and future imagining

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 Cite

Role of the hippocampus in remembering the past and imagining the future

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 Cite