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Rebecca Suk Heist, MD, MPH

For Appointments
617-724-4000

Office Address
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Center for Thoracic Cancers
55 Fruit Street, YAW 7
Boston, MA 02114

Clinical Interests
Lung Cancer; Molecular Epidemiology of Lung Cancer Outcomes; Clinical Trials in Lung Cancer

Education
MD Degree: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1999
MPH: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA, 2005

Postdoctoral Training
Residency: Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, MA
Fellowship: Hematology and Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer/Partners CancerCare, Boston, MA

Board Certification
Internal Medicine, 2002
Adult Medical Oncology, 2005

Hospital Appointments
Assistant in Medicine

Academic Appointments
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Publications
Original Articles
Suk R., Gurubhagavatula S., Park S., Zhou W., Su L., Lynch TJ., Wain JC., Neuberg D., Liu G., and Christiani DC. Polymorphisms in ERCC1 and Grade III/IV Toxicity in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients. Clinical Cancer Research 2005; 11: 1534-38.

Zhou W., Suk R., Liu G., Park S., Neuberg D., Wain JC., Lynch TJ., Giovannucci E., and Christiani DC. Vitamin D is associated with improved survival in early stage non-small cell lung cancer patients. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2005; 14: 2303-9.

Heist, RS., Marshall AL., Liu G., Zhou W., Su L., Neuberg D., Lynch TJ., Wain JC., Christiani DC. Polymorphisms in matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and recurrence-free and overall survival in Stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Clinical Cancer Research 2006; 12(18): 5448-53.

Zhou W., Heist RS., Liu G., Park S., Neuberg DS., Asomaning K., Wain JC., Lynch TJ., Christiani DC. Smoking cessation before diagnosis and survival in early stage non-small cell lung cancer patients. Lung Cancer 2006; 53 (3): 375-80.

Zhou W., Heist RS., Liu G., Neuberg DS., Asomaning K., Su L., Wain JC., Lynch TJ., Giovannucci E., Christiani DC. Polymorphisms of vitamin D receptor and survival in early stage non-small cell lung cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006 (in press).

Zhou W., Heist RS., Liu G., Asomaning K., Miller DP., Neuberg DS., Wain JC., Lynch TJ., Christiani DC. Second hand smoke exposure and survival in early stage non-small cell lung cancer patients. Clinical Cancer Research 2006 (in press).

Reviews and Chapters
Wu X., Zhao H., Suk R., and Christiani DC. Genetic Susceptibility to Tobacco-Related Cancer. Oncogene 2004; 23: 6500-23.

Suk R. and Christiani DC. Lung Cancer. In: Silverman EK., Weiss ST., Lomas DA., and Shapiro SD. (eds.) Respiratory Genetics. London: Hodder Arnold 2005.

Recent Abstracts
Suk R., Park S., Liu, G., Cogan-Drew T., Zhou W., Su L., Lynch TJ., Wain JC., and Christiani DC. p53 and overall survival in early stage non-small cell lung cancer. Proc AACR 2005.

Suk R., Park S., Liu, G., Cogan-Drew T., Zhou W., Su L., Lynch TJ., Wain JC., and Christiani DC. Polymorphisms in ERCC2 and overall survival (OS) in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Proc ASCO 2005.

Heist RS., Zhou W., Cogan-Drew T., Liu G., Neuberg D., Lynch TJ., Wain JC., Christiani DC. MDM2 polymorphism and recurrence-free and overall survival in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Proc ASCO 2006.

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