Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Cytopathology Fellowship, Pathology, Harvard Medical School 2012 - 2013
  • Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine 2008 - 2012
  • M.D., Duke University School of Medicine 2008
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Race-related alternative splicing: novel targets in prostate cancer awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2022
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • Foo, W-C, Harrison, G, and Zhang, X. "Immunocytochemistry for SOX-11 and TFE3 as diagnostic markers for solid pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas in FNA biopsies." Cancer cytopathology 125, no. 11 (November 2017): 831-837.  Full Text
    • Qi, R, Foo, W-C, Ferrandino, MN, Davis, LG, Sekar, S, Longo, TA, Jibara, G, Han, T, Gokhan, I, and Moul, JW. "Over half of contemporary clinical Gleason 8 on prostate biopsy are downgraded at radical prostatectomy." The Canadian journal of urology 24, no. 5 (October 2017): 8982-8989.
    • Gopalakrishna, A, Fantony, JJ, Longo, TA, Owusu, R, Foo, W-C, Dash, R, Denton, BT, and Inman, BA. "Anticipatory Positive Urine Tests for Bladder Cancer." Annals of surgical oncology 24, no. 6 (June 2017): 1747-1753.  Full Text
    • Fantony, JJ, Longo, TA, Gopalakrishna, A, Owusu, R, Lance, RS, Foo, W-C, Inman, BA, and Abern, MR. "Urinary NID2 and TWIST1 methylation to augment conventional urine cytology for the detection of bladder cancer." Cancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers 18, no. 4 (January 13, 2017): 381-387.  Full Text
    • Ramalingam, S, Eisenberg, A, Foo, WC, Freedman, J, Armstrong, AJ, Moss, LG, and Harrison, MR. "Treatment-related neuroendocrine prostate cancer resulting in Cushing's syndrome." International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association 23, no. 12 (December 2016): 1038-1041.  Full Text
    • Ware, KE, Somarelli, JA, Schaeffer, D, Li, J, Zhang, T, Park, S, Patierno, SR, Freedman, J, Foo, W-C, Garcia-Blanco, MA, and Armstrong, AJ. "Snail promotes resistance to enzalutamide through regulation of androgen receptor activity in prostate cancer." Oncotarget 7, no. 31 (August 2016): 50507-50521.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Gopalakrishna, A, Longo, TA, Fantony, JJ, Owusu, R, Foo, W-C, Dash, R, and Inman, BA. "The diagnostic accuracy of urine-based tests for bladder cancer varies greatly by patient." BMC urology 16, no. 1 (June 13, 2016): 30-.  Full Text
    • Foo, W-C, Jo, VY, and Krane, JF. "Usefulness of translocation-associated immunohistochemical stains in the fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of salivary gland neoplasms." Cancer cytopathology 124, no. 6 (June 2016): 397-405.  Full Text
    • Hughes, FM, Hill, HM, Wood, CM, Edmondson, AT, Dumas, A, Foo, W-C, Oelsen, JM, Rac, G, and Purves, JT. "The NLRP3 Inflammasome Mediates Inflammation Produced by Bladder Outlet Obstruction." The Journal of urology 195, no. 5 (May 2016): 1598-1605.  Full Text
    • Foo, WC, Youens, KE, Jowell, PS, and Bean, SM. "Image-guided fine-needle aspiration of secondary pancreatic neoplasms: A case series and review of the literature." Pathology Case Reviews 20, no. 4 (January 1, 2015): 175-181. (Review)  Full Text
    • Lew, M, Foo, W-C, and Roh, MH. "Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology." Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 138, no. 10 (October 2014): 1278-1285. (Review)  Full Text
    • Bhargava, P, Iyer, RS, Moshiri, M, Yeh, MM, Upton, MP, Foo, W-C, Mannelli, L, and Gupta, RT. "Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation of Uncommon Mesenchymal Liver Tumors." Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology 42, no. 5 (2013): 183-190.  Full Text
    • Dash, RC, Robb, JA, Booker, DL, Foo, W-C, Witte, DL, and Bry, L. "Biospecimens and biorepositories for the community pathologist." Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 136, no. 6 (2012): 668-678.  Full Text
    • Zhai, L, Polascik, TJ, Foo, W-C, Rosenzweig, S, Palmeri, ML, Madden, J, and Nightingale, KR. "Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of human prostates: initial in vivo demonstration." Ultrasound Med Biol 38, no. 1 (January 2012): 50-61.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Foo, W-C, Desjardins, A, and Cummings, TJ. "Primary intracerebral Hodgkin lymphoma with recurrence." Clinical Neuropathology 30, no. 2 (2011): 75-79.  Full Text
    • Foo, W-C, Papalas, JA, Robboy, SJ, and Selim, MA. "Vulvar manifestations of Crohn's disease." American Journal of Dermatopathology 33, no. 6 (2011): 588-593.  Full Text
    • Zhai, L, Madden, J, Foo, W-C, Mouraviev, V, Polascik, TJ, Palmeri, ML, and Nightingale, KR. "Characterizing stiffness of human prostates using acoustic radiation force." Ultrason Imaging 32, no. 4 (October 2010): 201-213.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Papalas, JA, Robboy, SJ, Burchette, JL, Foo, WC, and Selim, MA. "Acquired vulvar lymphangioma circumscriptum: a comparison of 12 cases with Crohn's associated lesions or radiation therapy induced tumors." Journal of cutaneous pathology 37, no. 9 (September 2010): 958-965. (Academic Article)  Full Text
    • Wang, E, Foo, WC, and Huang, Q. "A sinusoidal large cell lymphoma with expression of CD30, CD15, and multiple B-cell antigens: a classical Hodgkin lymphoma with sinusoidal infiltrating pattern or a sinusoidal CD30 positive large B-cell lymphoma with CD15?." Leukemia & lymphoma 51, no. 6 (June 2010): 1148-1151. (Academic Article)  Full Text
    • Zhai, L, Madden, J, Foo, W-C, Palmeri, ML, Mouraviev, V, Polascik, TJ, and Nightingale, KR. "Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of human prostates ex vivo." Ultrasound Med Biol 36, no. 4 (April 2010): 576-588.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Foo, W-C, Huang, Q, Sebastian, S, Hutchinson, CB, Burchette, J, and Wang, E. "Concurrent classical Hodgkin lymphoma and plasmablastic lymphoma in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma treated with fludarabine: A dimorphic presentation of iatrogenic immunodeficiency- associated lymphoproliferative disorder with evidence suggestive of multiclonal transformability of B cells by Epstein-Barr virus." Human Pathology 41, no. 12 (2010): 1802-1808.  Full Text
    • Eyler, CE, Foo, W-C, LaFiura, KM, McLendon, RE, Hjelmeland, AB, and Rich, JN. "Brain cancer stem cells display preferential sensitivity to Akt inhibition." Stem Cells 26, no. 12 (December 2008): 3027-3036.  Full Text  Link to Item

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