MissakHaigentzMD

Oncology • New Brunswick, NJ

Head & Neck Cancer, Thoracic Cancer

Medical Oncologist

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Office
195 Little Albany St
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Phone+1 732-235-2465
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Summary

I am a medical oncologist with expertise in the design and conduct of innovative clinical trials to improve the lives of cancer patients. I recently joined the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey as the Chief of Thoracic Medical Oncology and of Head and Neck Medical Oncology, and as Clinical Director of Integration for the Oncology Service Line at RWJBarnabas Health.

Dedicated to outstanding clinical care, research excellence, and commitment to medical education.

Best Practices for Implementing Cancer Immunotherapy in the Community

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Clinical Expertise

Lung cancer, Head and neck cancer, Clinical research

Education & Training

NYU Grossman School of MedicineFellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology, 1999 - 2001
NYU Grossman School of MedicineFellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology, 1998 - 1999
Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical SchoolResidency, Internal Medicine, 1995 - 1998
Rutgers New Jersey Medical SchoolClass of 1995

Certifications & Licensure

NJ State Medical License 1996 - 2025
NY State Medical License 1998 - 2025
American Board of Internal Medicine Medical Oncology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com

Clinical Trials

Depsipeptide in Unresectable Recurrent or Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck Start of enrollment: 2005 Jun 01
Completed
Phase 2
Chemotherapy With or Without Bevacizumab in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Start of enrollment: 2008 Aug 08
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Paclitaxel and Carboplatin in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Solid Tumors and HIV Infection Start of enrollment: 2013 Nov 01
Terminated
Phase 1
Cabozantinib S-Malate in Treating Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Start of enrollment: 2013 Jun 21
Completed
Phase 1
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1 citations
HIV Associated Lung Cancer: Unique Clinicopathologic Features and Immune Biomarkers Impacting Lung Cancer Screening and Management.
Ayse Ece Cali Daylan, Catarina Martins Maia, Shirin Attarian, Xiaoling Guo, Mindy Ginsberg, Enrico Castellucci, Rasim Gucalp, Missak Haigentz, Balazs Halmos, Haiying C...> ;Clinical Lung Cancer. 2024 Mar 1
Phase I Trial of the Multi-kinase Inhibitor Cabozantinib, a CYP3A4 Substrate, plus CYP3A4-Interacting Antiretroviral Therapy in People Living with HIV and Cancer (AMC-...
Missak Haigentz, Jeannette Y Lee, Elizabeth Y Chiao, Ronald T Mitsuyasu, Michelle A Rudek, Aboulafia, D., Ratner, L., Ambinder, R., Baiocchi, R., Wachsman, W., Sparano...> ;Clinical Cancer Research. 2023 Dec 15
Locally Advanced Lung Cancer.
Sarah Oh, George N Botros, Milan Patel, Missak Haigentz, Eshan Patel, Iaonnis Kontopidis, John Langenfeld, Matthew P Deek, Salma K Jabbour> ;Hematology/oncology Clinics of North America. 2023 Jun 1
1 citations
Waiting for Big Changes in Limited-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer: For Now, More of the Same.
Matthew P Deek, Missak Haigentz, Salma K Jabbour> ;Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2023 May 1
5 citations
Safety and Efficacy of MEDI0457 plus Durvalumab in Patients with Human Papillomavirus-Associated Recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Charu Aggarwal, Nabil F Saba, Alain Algazi, Ammar Sukari, Tanguy Y Seiwert, Missak Haigentz, Mercedes Porosnicu, Marcelo Bonomi, Jean Boyer, Mark T Esser, Lily I Cheng...> ;Clinical Cancer Research. 2023 Feb 1
Safety and Tolerability of Carboplatin and Paclitaxel in Cancer Patients with HIV (AMC-078), an AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC) Study.
Missak Haigentz, Page Moore, Milan Bimali, Joseph Sparano, Michelle Rudek, Lee Ratner, David Henry, Juan Ramos, John Deeken, Paul Rubinstein, Elizabeth Chiao, Timothy ...> ;The Oncologist. 2022 Aug 5
76 citations
Tracheostomy during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Recommendations from the New York Head and Neck Society
Brett A. Miles, Bradley A. Schiff, Ian Ganly, Thomas J. Ow, Erik Cohen, Eric M. Genden, Bruce Culliney, B. Mehrotra, Steven R. Savona, Richard J. Wong, Missak Haigentz...> ;Head & Neck. 2020 Jun 1
10 citations
Exhaled breath analysis in the diagnosis of head and neck cancer.
Antti Mäkitie, Alhadi Almangush, Omar Youssef, Markus Metsälä, Suvi Silén, Iain J. Nixon, Missak Haigentz, Juan P. Rodrigo, Nabil F. Saba, Vincent Vander Poorten, Alfi...> ;Head & Neck. 2020 Apr 1
21 citations
Targeting the EGFR and Immune Pathways in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck (SCCHN): Forging a New Alliance.
Nabil F. Saba, Zhuo Gerogia Chen, Missak Haigentz, Paolo Bossi, Alessandra Rinaldo, Juan P. Rodrigo, Antti Mäkitie, Robert P. Takes, Primoz Strojan, Jan B. Vermorken, ...> ;Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 2019 Nov 1
56 citations
Phase III Randomized Trial of Chemotherapy With or Without Bevacizumab in Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer.
Athanassios Argiris, Shuli Li, Panayiotis Savvides, James Ohr, Jill Gilbert, Marshall A. Levine, Arnab Chakravarti, Missak Haigentz, Nabil F. Saba, Chukwuemeka Ikpeazu...> ;Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2019 Oct 16
72 citations
The Current Role of Salvage Surgery in Recurrent Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Marc Hamoir, Sandra Schmitz, Carlos Suárez, Primoz Strojan, Katherine A. Hutcheson, Juan P. Rodrigo, William M. Mendenhall, Ricard Simo, Nabil F. Saba, Anil K. D'Cruz,...> ;Cancers. 2018 Aug 10
16 citations
Understanding Interactions of Smoking on Prognosis of HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Cancers.
Missak Haigentz, Carlos Suárez, Primoz Strojan, Juan P. Rodrigo, Alessandra Rinaldo, Carol R. Bradford, June Corry, Robert P. Takes, Alfio Ferlito> ;Advances in Therapy. 2018 Mar 1
46 citations
Head and Neck Cancer: A Review of the Impact of Treatment Delay on Outcome
Andrés Coca-Pelaz, Robert P. Takes, Katherine A. Hutcheson, Nabil F. Saba, Missak Haigentz, Carol R. Bradford, Remco de Bree, Primož Strojan, Valerie J. Lund, William ...> ;Advances in Therapy. 2018 Feb 1
15 citations
AHNS Series: Do you know your guidelines? Principles of treatment for locally advanced or unresectable head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Cory D. Fulcher, Missak Haigentz, Thomas J. Ow> ;Head & Neck. 2018 Apr 1
18 citations
Response assessment after induction chemotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: From physical examination to modern imaging techniques and beyond.
Remco de Bree, Gregory T. Wolf, Bart de Keizer, Iain J. Nixon, Dana M. Hartl, Arlene A. Forastiere, Missak Haigentz, Alessandra Rinaldo, Juan P. Rodrigo, Nabil F. Saba...> ;Head & Neck. 2017 Aug 17
Multiple Endocrine and Neoplastic Diseases After Unsuccessful Treatment of Hepatitis C With Interferon and Ribavirin.
Shirin Attarian, Janaki Sharma, Andreas Kaubisch, Joel Zonszein, Missak Haigentz> ;The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 2017 Jul 1
27 citations
Toxicities of systemic agents in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN); A new perspective in the era of immunotherapy
Nabil F. Saba, Mayur D. Mody, Elaine S. Tan, Harpaul S. Gill, Alessandra Rinaldo, Robert P. Takes, Primož Strojan, Dana M. Hartl, Jan B. Vermorken, Missak Haigentz, Al...> ;Critical Reviews in Oncology/hematology. 2017 Jul 1
24 citations
Organ preservation with chemoradiation in advanced laryngeal cancer: The problem of generalizing results from randomized controlled trials
Alvaro Sanabria, Aline Lauda Freitas Chaves, Luiz Paulo Kowalski, Gregory T. Wolf, Nabil F. Saba, Arlene A. Forastiere, Jonathan J. Beitler, Ken-ichi Nibu, Carol R. Br...> ;Auris, Nasus, Larynx. 2017 Feb 1
6 citations
Randomized Phase 2 Trial of Pharmacodynamic Separation of Pemetrexed and Intercalated Erlotinib Versus Pemetrexed Alone for Advanced Nonsquamous, Non-small-cell Lung C...
Tianhong Li, Bilal Piperdi, William V. Walsh, Mimi Kim, Laurel A. Beckett, Rasim Gucalp, Missak Haigentz, Venu Bathini, Huiyu Wen, Kaili Zhou, Patricia Pasquinelli, Sr...> ;Clinical Lung Cancer. 2017 Jan 1
Continuous Activity Monitoring During Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy
Nitin Ohri, Rafi Kabarriti, Madhur Garg, Missak Jr Haigentz, Chandan Guha, Shalom Kalnicki, William R Bodner, Keyur J Mehta> ;International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics. 2017 Mar 24
22 citations
Management of locally advanced HPV-related oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: where are we?
S. Samuels, Avraham Eisbruch, Jonathan J. Beitler, June Corry, Carol R. Bradford, Nabil F. Saba, Michiel W. M. van den Brekel, Robert Smee, Primož Strojan, Carlos Suár...> ;European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. 2016 Oct 1
5 citations
Association between malignancy and non-alcoholic Wernicke's encephalopathy: a case report and literature review
Evan Y. Choi, William A. Gomes, Missak Haigentz, Jerome J. Graber> ;Neuro-Oncology Practice. 2016 Sep 1
9 citations
Long-Term Disease Control in a Patient With Recurrent Bone-Only Oligometastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Ashish Abhay Khot, Charito Love, Madhur Garg, Missak Haigentz> ;Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2016 Feb 1
9 citations
Risk of Cancer among Commercially Insured HIV-Infected Adults on Antiretroviral Therapy.
Jeannette Y. Lee, Ishwori Dhakal, Corey Casper, Ariela Noy, Joel M. Palefsky, Missak Haigentz, Susan E. Krown, Richard F. Ambinder, Ronald T. Mitsuyasu> ;Journal of Cancer Epidemiology. 2016 Nov 2
64 citations
Cervical lymph node metastases from remote primary tumor sites
Fernando López, Juan P. Rodrigo, Carl E. Silver, Missak Haigentz, Justin A. Bishop, Primož Strojan, Dana M. Hartl, Patrick J. Bradley, William M. Mendenhall, Carlos Su...> ;Head & Neck. 2016 Apr 1
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Press Mentions

Accelerating Access to Breakthrough Cancer TherapiesFebruary 9th, 2020
New Jersey’s First National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Awarded to Atlantic Health Cancer ConsortiumAugust 22nd, 2019
Shop TalkAugust 10th, 2017
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Grant Support

The Atlantic Health Cancer Consortium Community Oncology Research Program (AHCC CORP); National Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) - Community SitesNational Cancer Institute (NCI)2019–2025

Committees

Member, Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO, YIA Grants Selection Committee 2015 - 2018
President, New York Head and Neck Society 2014 - 2015

Professional Memberships

Other Languages

Armenian, Spanish

Hospital Affiliations

Robert Wood Johnson University HospitalNew Brunswick, New Jersey

External Links

Information for Patientshttps://findadoctor.atlantichealth.org/detail.aspx?recid=4413&firstname=Missak&lastname=Haigentz,%20Jr.
Einstein Faculty Profilehttp://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/8566/missak-haigentz/