MartinBrecherMD

Pediatric Hematology & Oncology • Buffalo, NY

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, SUNY Buffalo

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Office
Elm And Carlton St
Buffalo, NY 14263
Phone+1 716-845-2300

Fax+1 716-845-8003
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Education & Training

University at BuffaloFellowship, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 1974 - 1977
University at BuffaloResidency, Pediatrics, 1975 - 1975
University at BuffaloResidency, Pediatrics, 1972 - 1975
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at BuffaloClass of 1972

Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License 1975 - 2025
NJ State Medical License 1992 - 2015
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2006-2014
Buffalo Spree Magazine Castle Connolly, 2008, 2010-2014
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2005-2013
Top MD Consumers Checkbook
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Clinical Trials

Vaccine Therapy in Preventing Flu in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Start of enrollment: 2000 Aug 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Genetic Analysis in Identifying Late-Occurring Complications in Childhood Cancer Survivors Start of enrollment: 2004 Mar 25
Recruiting
Single vs Double Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants in Children With High Risk Leukemia and Myelodysplasia (BMT CTN 0501) Start of enrollment: 2006 Dec 01
Completed
Phase 3
Long-Term Follow-Up of Patients Who Have Participated in Children's Oncology Group Studies Start of enrollment: 2008 Jul 17
Recruiting
Neuropsychological and Behavioral Testing in Younger Patients With Cancer Start of enrollment: 2009 Feb 27
Recruiting
Collecting and Storing Malignant, Borderline Malignant Neoplasms, and Related Samples From Young Patients With Cancer Start of enrollment: 2003 Oct 13
Completed
Study of Kidney Tumors in Younger Patients Start of enrollment: 2006 Feb 27
Recruiting
Collecting and Storing Biological Samples From Patients With Ewing Sarcoma Start of enrollment: 2008 Feb 04
Completed
Biomarkers in Tumor Tissue Samples From Patients With Newly Diagnosed Neuroblastoma or Ganglioneuroblastoma Start of enrollment: 2000 Nov 06
Recruiting
Collecting and Storing Tissue, Blood, and Bone Marrow Samples From Patients With Rhabdomyosarcoma or Other Soft Tissue Sarcoma Start of enrollment: 1999 Mar 15
Completed
Collecting and Storing Blood and Brain Tumor Tissue Samples From Children With Brain Tumors Start of enrollment: 2004 Feb 16
Completed
Combination Chemotherapy and Surgery in Treating Young Patients With Wilms Tumor Start of enrollment: 2009 Jul 13
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Risk-Based Therapy in Treating Younger Patients With Newly Diagnosed Liver Cancer Start of enrollment: 2009 Sep 14
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Maintenance Chemotherapy or Observation Following Induction Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Ependymoma Start of enrollment: 2010 May 07
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Risk-Based Classification System of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Start of enrollment: 2010 Aug 09
Completed
Risk-Adapted Chemotherapy in Treating Younger Patients With Newly Diagnosed Standard-Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia or Localized B-Lineage Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Start of enrollment: 2010 Aug 09
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Temozolomide and Irinotecan Hydrochloride With or Without Bevacizumab in Treating Young Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Medulloblastoma or CNS Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors Start of enrollment: 2010 Nov 22
Completed
Phase 2
Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Non-Metastatic Extracranial Ewing Sarcoma Start of enrollment: 2010 Nov 22
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Caspofungin Versus Fluconazole in Preventing Invasive Fungal Infections (IFI) in Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Start of enrollment: 2011 Apr 04
Completed
Phase 3
Levofloxacin in Preventing Infection in Young Patients With Acute Leukemia Receiving Chemotherapy or Undergoing Stem Cell Transplantation Start of enrollment: 2011 Sep 01
Completed
Phase 3
A Phase III Randomized Trial for Newly Diagnosed High Risk B-precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) Testing Clofarabine (IND# 73789, NSC# 606869) in the Very High Risk Stratum Start of enrollment: 2012 Feb 01
Intergroup Trial for Children or Adolescents With B-Cell NHL or B-AL: Evaluation of Rituximab Efficacy and Safety in High Risk Patients Start of enrollment: 2012 Jun 01
Risk-Based Therapy in Treating Younger Patients With Newly Diagnosed Liver Cancer Start of enrollment: 2009 Sep 01
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Inadequate Folinic Acid Rescue After Methotrexate Causing Neurocognitive and Neuroradiologic Central Nervous System Late Effects in Children With Acute Lymphatic Leuke...
Duffner Pk, Armstrong Fd, Kathleen J. Helton, Martin L. Brecher, Beverly Bell, Allen R. Chauvenet> ;Journal of Pediatric Hematology/oncology. 2014 Mar 13
54 citations
Neurocognitive and neuroradiologic central nervous system late effects in children treated on Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) P9605 (standard risk) and P9201 (lesser ri...
Patricia K. Duffner, Floyd Daniel Armstrong, Lu Chen, Kathleen J. Helton, Martin L. Brecher, Beverly Bell, Allen R. Chauvenet> ;Journal of Pediatric Hematology/oncology. 2014 Jan 1
20 citations
Ewing sarcoma of the mandibular condyle: Multidisciplinary management optimizes outcome
Lynn W. Solomon, Jennifer L. Frustino, Thom R. Loree, Martin L. Brecher, Ronald A. Alberico, Maureen Sullivan> ;Head & Neck. 2008 Mar 1
25 citations
Induction of protective immune responses against NXS2 neuroblastoma challenge in mice by immunotherapy with GD2 mimotope vaccine and IL-15 and IL-21 gene delivery
Aleksandra Kowalczyk, Andrzej Wierzbicki, Margaret Gil, Barbara Bambach, Yutaro Kaneko, Hanna Rokita, Elizabeth A. Repasky, Robert A. Fenstermaker, Martin L. Brecher, ...> ;Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy. 2007 Feb 14
49 citations
DNA vaccine expressing the mimotope of GD2 ganglioside induces protective GD2 cross-reactive antibody responses.
Elizabeth Bolesta, Aleksandra Kowalczyk, Andrzej Wierzbicki, Piotr Rotkiewicz, Barbara Bambach, Chun-Yen Tsao, Irena Horwacik, Andrzej Kolinski, Hanna Rokita, Martin L...> ;Cancer Research. 2005 Apr 15
45 citations
Allergy and infectious disease histories and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Paula F. Rosenbaum, Germaine M. Buck, Martin L. Brecher> ;Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2005 Mar 1
10 citations
Extra copies of chromosome 2 are a recurring aberration in ALK-negative lymphomas with anaplastic morphology
Rina Kansal, Sheila N.J. Sait, AnneMarie W. Block, Pamela M. Ward, Felicity L R Kelly, Richard T. Cheney, Myron S. Czuczman, Martin L. Brecher, Maurice Barcos> ;Modern Pathology. 2005 Feb 1
19 citations
Precursor B lymphoblastic leukemia with surface light chain immunoglobulin restriction: a report of 15 patients.
Rina Kansal, George Deeb, Maurice Barcos, Meir Wetzler, Martin L. Brecher, AnneMarie W. Block, Carleton C. Stewart> ;American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2004 Apr 1
54 citations
Early Child-Care and Preschool Experiences and the Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Paula F. Rosenbaum, Germaine M. Buck, Martin L. Brecher> ;American Journal of Epidemiology. 2000 Dec 15
28 citations
Intermediate-dose methotrexate versus cranial irradiation in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a ten-year follow-up.
Arnold I. Freeman, James M. Boyett, Arvin S. Glicksman, Martin L. Brecher, Brigid G. Leventhal, Lucius F. Sinks, James F. Holland> ;Medical and Pediatric Oncology. 1997 Feb 1
46 citations
Clonal evolution in B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia by contemporaneous VH-VH gene replacements and VH-DJH gene rearrangements
Youngnim Choi, Steven J. Greenberg, Tian-Long Du, Pamela M. Ward, Phyllis M. Overturf, Martin L. Brecher, Mark Ballow> ;Blood. 1996 Mar 15
7 citations
Profile of immunoglobulin heavy chain variable gene repertoires and highly selective detection of malignant clonotypes in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Steven J. Greenberg, Youngnim Choi, Mark Ballow, Tian-Long Du, Pamela M. Ward, Michael H. Rickert, Stanley R. Frankel, Steven H. Bernstein, Martin L. Brecher> ;Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 1995 Jun 1
13 citations
Burkitt's Lymphoma of the Parapharyngeal Space
George P. Bauer, Mark S. Volk, Saeeda Y. Siddiqui, Martin L. Brecher, Linda Brodsky, John Stanievich, Hubert Jockin, Surabhi Kakati> ;Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery. 1993 Jan 1
10 citations
Reversal of C1300 murine neuroblastoma multidrug resistance by cremophorEL, a solvent for cyclosporin A.
David S. Chervinsky, Martin L. Brecher, Raymond M. Baker, Martin J. Hoelcle, Cameron K. Tebbi> ;Cancer Biotherapy. 1993 Jan 1
17 citations
A pilot study of intermediate-dose methotrexate and cytosine arabinoside, "spread-out" or "up-front," in continuation therapy for childhood non-T, non-B acute lymphobl...
Robert A. Krance, Edward M. Newman, Donald Pinkel, Yaddanapudi Ravindranath, Michael B. Harris, Martin L. Brecher, Robert S. Wimmer, Jonathan J. Shuster, Vita J. Land,...> ;Cancer. 1991 Feb 1
12 citations
High-dose cyclophosphamide-high-dose methotrexate with coordinated intrathecal therapy for advanced nonlymphoblastic lymphoma of childhood: results of a Pediatric Onco...
Margaret P. Sullivan, Martin L. Brecher, Irma Ramirez, Abdel Ragab, Eva Hvizdala, Jeanette Pullen, Jonathan J. Shuster, Costan W. Berard, William M. Crist, Teresa J. V...> ;The American Journal of Pediatric Hematology/oncology. 1991 Jan 1
32 citations
Clinical and biological heterogeneity of childhood B cell acute lymphocytic leukemia: implications for clinical trials.
Margaret P. Sullivan, D. J. Pullen, William M. Crist, Martin L. Brecher, Ramirez I, Sabio H, Michael J. Borowitz, David R. Head, Lizardo Cerezo, Jonathan J. Shuster> ;Leukemia. 1990 Jan 1
23 citations
Interstitial deletion of chromosome 11q in a pineoblastoma
Chandrika Sreekantaiah, Hubert Jockin, Martin L. Brecher, Avery A. Sandberg> ;Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 1989 May 1
25 citations
Translocation t(1;22) in congenital acute megakaryocytic leukemia.
S.N. Jani Sait, Martin L. Brecher, Daniel M. Green, Avery A. Sandberg> ;Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 1988 Sep 1
36 citations
Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia associated with mosaic Down's syndrome
Julius H. Simon, Cameron K. Tebbi, Arnold I. Freeman, Martin L. Brecher, Daniel M. Green, Avery A. Sandberg> ;Cancer. 1987 Nov 15
25 citations
Toxicity of high dose Ara-C in children and adolescents
Nilka J. Barrios, Cameron K. Tebbi, Arnold I. Freeman, Martin L. Brecher> ;Cancer. 1987 Jul 15
2 citations
Malignant histiocytosis. Complete remission in two pediatric patients
Julius H. Simon, Cameron K. Tebbi, Arnold I. Freeman, Daniel M. Green, Martin L. Brecher, Maurice Barcos> ;Cancer. 1987 May 1
2 citations
Malignant lymphomas in children and adolescents
Martin L. Brecher> ;Seminars in Surgical Oncology. 1986 Jan 1
105 citations
Long-term effects of cranial irradiation on endocrine function in children with brain tumors. A prospective study.
Patricia K. Duffner, Michael E. Cohen, Mary L. Voorhess, Margaret H. MacGillivray, Martin L. Brecher, Alvin M. Panahon, Behzad B. Gilani> ;Cancer. 1985 Nov 1
4 citations
High-dose cyclophosphamide and intermediate-dose methotrexate for the treatment of far-advanced Burkitt's lymphoma.
Martin L. Brecher, Gardner Rv, Lawrence J. Ettinger, Cameron K. Tebbi, Daniel M. Green, Arnold I. Freeman> ;The American Journal of Pediatric Hematology/oncology. 1985 Jan 1
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KALEIDA HealthBuffalo, New York

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