LeonChristopherHwangMD

Oncology • Gaithersburg, MD

Physician

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Office
655 Watkins Mill Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
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Education & Training

Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology, 1994 - 1997
Johns Hopkins University/Bayview Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1991 - 1994
University of Texas Southwestern Medical SchoolClass of 1991

Certifications & Licensure

DC State Medical License 2001 - 2024
VA State Medical License 2001 - 2024
MD State Medical License 1994 - 2024
American Board of Internal Medicine Medical Oncology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

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Clinical Trials

Radiation Therapy With or Without Trastuzumab in Treating Women With Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Who Have Undergone Lumpectomy Start of enrollment: 2008 Nov 10
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Rosuvastatin in Treating Patients With Stage I or Stage II Colon Cancer That Was Removed By Surgery Start of enrollment: 2010 Mar 01
Terminated
Phase 3
Bevacizumab or Pemetrexed Disodium Alone or In Combination After Induction Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Start of enrollment: 2010 Oct 25
Completed
Phase 3
Tamoxifen Citrate, Letrozole, Anastrozole, or Exemestane With or Without Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Invasive RxPONDER Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2011 Jan 15
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Chemotherapy With or Without Trastuzumab After Surgery in Treating Women With Invasive Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2011 Jan 06
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
S1207 Hormone Therapy With or Without Everolimus in Treating Patients With Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2013 Sep 12
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Open-label, Phase II Study of Stomatitis Prevention With a Steroid-based Mouthwash in Post-menopausal Women With Estrogen-receptor-positive (ER+), Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2)- Metastatic or Locally Advanced Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2014 May 01
Completed
Phase 2
Doxorubicin Hydrochloride and Cyclophosphamide Followed by Paclitaxel With or Without Carboplatin in Treating Patients With Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 2015 Jul 26
Recruiting
Phase 3
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

13 citations
Real-World Performance of a Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Test Optimized for Small Tumor Samples.
Scott A. Tomlins, Daniel H. Hovelson, Jennifer Marie Suga, Daniel M. Anderson, Han A. Koh, Elizabeth Claire Dees, Brendan McNulty, Mark E. Burkard, Michael Guarino, Ja...> ;JCO Precision Oncology. 2021 Aug 19
3 citations
Strategies for selecting/switching chemotherapy and supportive care treatments during COVID-19 outbreak.
Quan Li, Leon C. Hwang> ;Cancer Medicine. 2020 Jul 20
124 citations
Prevention of everolimus-related stomatitis in women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer using dexamethasone mouthwash (SWISH): a si...
Hope S. Rugo, Lasika Seneviratne, J. Thaddeus Beck, John A. Glaspy, Julio A Peguero, Timothy J. Pluard, Navneet Dhillon, Leon Christopher Hwang, Chaitali Singh Nangia,...> ;The Lancet. Oncology. 2017 May 1
10 citations
Prostate cancer vaccines: current status.
Leon Hwang, Fein S, Hy Levitsky, William G. Nelson> ;Seminars in Oncology. 1999 Apr 1
539 citations
Induction of antigen-specific T cell anergy: An early event in the course of tumor progression
Kevin Staveley-O'Carroll, Eduardo M. Sotomayor, Jami Montgomery, Ivan Borrello, Leon Hwang, Steve Fein, Drew M. Pardoll, Hyam I. Levitsky> ;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1998 Feb 3
69 citations
Genetic analysis of the interaction of the insertion sequence IS903 transposase with its terminal inverted repeats
Keith M. Derbyshire, Leon Hwang, Nigel D. F. Grindley> ;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1987 Nov 1
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