Phuoc Tho Tran MD PhD

PubMed

• Genomic Predictors of Response to Metastasis-directed Therapy With or Without Androgen Deprivation Therapy.
  Philip Sutera, Kim Van der Eecken, Yang Song, Amol C Shetty, Elai Davicioni
  European Urology Oncology. 2025-09-20
• Prediction of metastasis-free survival in patients with localized prostate adenocarcinoma using primary tumor and lymph node radiomics from pre-treatment PSMA-PET/CT s...
  Apurva Singh, William Silva Mendes, Sang-Bo Oh, Ozan Cem Guler, Aysenur Elmali
  Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2025-09-06
• oDigital pathology biomarkers for guiding radiotherapy-based treatment concepts in prostate cancer - a systematic review and expert consensus.
  Constantinos Zamboglou, William De Doncker, Andreas Thomas Christoforou, Stefano Arcangeli, Alejandro Berlin
  Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2025-09-01

Journal Articles

• Development and Validation of a Clinical Prognostic Stage Group System for Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer Using Disease-Specific Mortality Results from the Internationa...  
  Michael J Zelefsky, Matthew R Cooperberg, Brian J Davis, Eric M Horwitz, Martha K Terris, Christopher L Amling, Christopher J Kane, Curtiland Deville, Theodore L Dewee..., JAMA Oncology

Books/Book Chapters

• The Johns Hopkins Bulletins - Prostate Disorders. 
  Chapter: Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Evaluating The Treatment Options. 
  Phuoc T. TranRemedy Health, New York, NY2013
• ASTRO Radiation/Cancer Biology Practice Examination and Study Guide. 
  Phuoc T. Tran (Associate Editor)Editors: Phuoc T. Tran (Associate Ed).ASTRO, Fairfax, VA2013
• The Johns Hopkins Bulletins - Prostate Disorders. 
  Chapter: Brachytherapy for Primary Prostate Cancer. 
  Phuoc T. TranRemedy Health, New York, NY2013
• Cancer Biomarkers. 
  Chapter: Statins in Prostate Cancer: Prevention and Treatment. 
  Khaled Aziz and Phuoc T. TranCRC Press, Boca Raton, FL2012
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Abstracts/Posters

• Tumor and immunological responses from checkpoint blockade and radiation therapy in an autochthonous mouse model of lung cancer.
  Amanda J. Walker, Chris Nirschle, Katriana Nugent, Hailun Wang, Timothy Harris, Reem Malek, Russell Hales, John Wong, Charles Drake, Phuoc T. Tran, 60th Annual 2014 RRS Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Screening for TWIST1 inhibitors as a novel therapy for oncogene driven lung cancer.
  Sarah N.H. Chatley, Jessica A. Cades, Neil Neumann, Lucia Mazzacurati, Zachary Yochum, Katriana Nugent, Yoon-Jae Cho, Andrew Ewald, Charles M. Rudin, Phuoc T. Tran and..., AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on the Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer, 1/1/2014
• Efficacy of platinum chemotherapy agents in the adjuvant setting for adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas.
  Aaron T. Wild, Avani S. Dholakia, Katherine Yu-Ting Fan, Rachit Kumar, Daniel A. Laheru, Lei Zheng, Ana De Jesus-Acosta, Susannah G. Ellsworth, Amy Hacker-Prietz, K Ra..., ASCO GI Cancers Symposium, 1/1/2014
• Twist1 Induces the Step-wise Malignant Progression of Liver Cancer in Transgenic Mice Revealing a Prognostic 19-Gene Signature for Humans.
  David I. Bellovin, Stacey J. Adam, Meital Gabay, Sivarajan T. Chettiar, Stephanie Roessler, Russell D. Williams, Julia Arzeno, Katriana Nugent, Andrew J. Gentles, Rich..., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Meeting - Mechanisms and Models of Cancer, 1/1/2014
• Snai1 accelerates KrasG12D driven lung tumorigenesis by overcoming oncogene-induced senescence.
  Kekoa Taparra, Katriana Nugent, Hailun Wang, Reem Malek, Dean W. Felsher, Phuoc T. Tran, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Meeting - Mechanisms and Models of Cancer, 1/1/2014
• A TWIST1-MLL-HOTTIP complex regulates HOXA9 chromatin to facilitate metastasis in prostate cancer.
  Rajendra P. Gajula, Russell D. Williams, Reem Malek, Katriana Nugent, Amanda J. Walker, Sivarajan T. Chettiar, Hailun Wang, Kekoa Taparra, Jessica Cades, Steven An, Jo..., ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• End of treatment PSA as a novel prognostic factor in patients undergoing definitive radiation for prostate cancer.
  Narang AK, Ram AN, Robertson S, Hei P, Griffith E, Singh H, DeWeese, TA, Honig, S, McNutt T, Song DY, Tran PT, DeWeese TL, ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Prognostic and therapeutic implications of PNI in prostate cancer patients undergoing definitive radiation.
  Robertson S, Narang AK, Ram AN, He P, Griffith E, Singh H, DeWeese TA, Honig S, McNutt T, Tran PT, DeWeese TL, Song DY, ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Tumor and immunological responses from checkpoint blockade and radiation therapy in an autochthonous mouse model of lung cancer.
  Amanda J. Walker, Chris Nirschle, Katriana Nugent, Tom Nirscle, Hailun Wang, Tim Harris, Andrew Sharabi, Reem Malek, Esteban Velerde, Joseph M. Herman, John Wong, Char..., ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Very-high-risk localized prostate cancer - outcomes following definitive radiation.
  Narang AK, Robertson S, Ram AN, He P, Sundi D, Griffith E, Singh H, DeWeese TA, Honig S, McNutt T, Ross AE, Bivalacqua TJ, Schaeffer EM, Partin AW, DeWeese TL, Tran PT..., ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Multiple intermediate-risk factors as a prognostic tool for men with localized prostate cancer.
  Ram AN, Narang AK, Robertson S, He P, Sundi D, Griffith E, Singh H, DeWeese TA, Honig S, McNutt T, Schaeffer EM, Ross AE, Bivalacqua TJ, Partin AW, Song DY, Tran PT, D..., ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Discrepancies in toxicity grading of rectal bleeding: a survey of radiation oncologists who treat prostate cancer.
  Minh-Phuong Huynh-Le, Zhe Zhang, Phuoc Tran, Theodore DeWeese, Danny Y Song, ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Prognostic value of PSA nadir in patients undergoing definitive radiation for prostate cancer.
  Ram AN, Robertson S, Narang AK, Hei P, Griffith E, Singh H, DeWeese TA, Honig S, McNutt T, DeWeese TL, Song DY, Tran PT, ASTRO 2014 National Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Twist1 overexpression induces resistance to sorafenib in hepatocellular carcinoma cells.
  Wild AT, Bellovin B, Chettiar ST, Gandhi NG, Gajula RP, Williams RD, Cades JA, Walker A, Felsher D, Herman JM, Tran PT, ASTRO 2013 national meeting, 1/1/2013
• Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells of Non-Epithelial Origin: A Bench to Bedside Approach.
  Sanjay Chandrasekaran, Nishant Gandhi, David Steinmetz, Russell Williams, Robert A. Lustig, Michelle Alonso-Basanta, Phuoc T. Tran, Gary D. Kao, Jay F. Dorsey, Stephen..., ASTRO National Meeting, 1/1/2013
• Twist1 Induces the Step-wise Malignant Progression of Liver Cancer in Transgenic Mice Revealing a Prognostic 19-Gene Signature for Humans.
  Phuoc T. Tran, David I. Bellovin, Stacey J. Adam, Andrew J. Gentles, Stephanie Roessler, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Khaled Aziz, Sivarajan Chettiar, Richard Luong, Sylvia..., ASTRO National Meeting, 1/1/2013
• Efficacy of platinum chemotherapy agents in the adjuvant setting for adenosquamous carcinoma of the pancreas.
  Wild AT, Dholakia AS, Fan KY, Kumar R, Laheru DA, Diaz LA Jr., Zheng L, Le DT, De Jesus-Acosta A, Ellsworth S, Hacker-Prietz A, Voong KR, Weiss MJ, Hruban RH, Tran PT,..., ASCO National Meeting, 1/1/2013
• Hemoglobin-A1c level predicts for clinical outcomes in patients with pancreatic cancer.
  Katherine Y. Fan, Avani S. Dholakia, Aaron T. Wild, Zheng Su, Amy Hacker-Prietz, Rachit Kumar, Mary Hodgin, Charles C. Hsu, Dung T. Le, Ana De Jesus-Acosta, Luis A. Di..., ASCO 2013 National Meeting, 1/1/2013
• Towards "Personalized Medicine"? : A Novel Live-cell Assay for Detecting Both Epithelial and Non-epithelial Circulating Tumor Cells.
  Sanjay Chandrasekaran, Gary D. Kao, David Steinmetz, Emigdio Reyes, Xiangsheng Xu, Nishant Gandhi, Phuoc T. Tran, Jay F. Dorsey, Stephen M. Hahn, NCI-ASTRO Technology in Radiation Oncology Conference, 1/1/2013
• The Twist box is required for Twist1-induced prostate cancer metastasis.
  Rajendra P. Gajula, Sivarajan T. Chettiar, Russell D. Williams, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Yoshinori Kato et al, AACR Annual Meeting, 1/1/2013
• Treating Pancreatic Cancer Patients with Erlotinib Based Adjuvant Therapy Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy or Pancreatectomy.
  Katherine Y. Fan, Aaron T. Wild, Amy Hacker-Prietz, Laura Wood, Amanda L. Blackford, Phuoc T. Tran et al, ARS Meetings, 1/1/2013
• Phase II Study of Erlotinib Combined with Adjuvant Chemoradiation and Chemotherapy for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer.
  Katherine Y. Fan, Aaron T. Wild, Daniel A. Laheru, Timothy M. Pawlik, Lei Zheng, Dung T. Le, Phuoc T. Tran et al, ASCO GI Cancers Symposium, 1/1/2013
• The Twist box domain is required for Twist1-induced metastasis of prostate cancer cells.
  Rajendra Gajula, Sivarajan Chettiar, Russell Williams, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Khaled Aziz, Nishant Gandhi, Aaron Wild, Tarek Salih, Yoshinori Kato, Jessica Cades, Ela..., AACR Tumor Invasion and Metastasis Meeting, 1/1/2013
• Stereotactic body radiation therapy results in less severe treatment-related lymphopenia than conventional chemoradiation therapy in patients with locally advanced pan...
  Wild AT, Ellsworth SG, Ford E, Dholakia AS, Fan KY, Kumar R, Ye X, Tran PT, Grossman SA, Herman JM, ASTRO 2013 national meeting, 1/1/2013
• Mapping Patterns of Local Failure Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic Cancer: A New Approach to Adjuvant Radiation Fields.
  Avani S. Dholakia, Rachit Kumar, Siva P. Raman, Susannah G. Yovino, Aaron T. Wild, Katharine Y. Fan, Amy Hacker-Prietz, Phuoc T. Tran, Christopher L. Wolfgang, Joseph ..., ASTRO 2013 national meeting, 1/1/2013
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Lectures

• Bioinformatic-chemical screen for inhibitors of Twist1. 
  9/8/2014
• SBRT/SBAR for Oligomets. 
  6/13/2014
• genetic tests for localized prostate cancer: ready for prime time? 
  5/22/2014
• Structure-functions studies of the TWIST1 oncoprotein in lung and prostate cancer. 
  4/18/2014
• The Twist box domain is required for TWIST1-induced metastasis of prostate cancer cells. 
  11/13/2013
• Phase I Trial of HSP90 inhibition and radiation-androgen deprivation therapy for high-risk, localized and locally advanced prostate cancer. 
  11/1/2013
• Structure functions studies of the TWIST1 oncoprotein in lung and prostate cancer. 
  10/28/2013
• Non-surgical combined modality treatment approaches for muscle invasive bladder cancer. 
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 7/6/2013
• Extreme Hypofractionation for Localized Prostate CA: Radiobiologic Rationale & Early Results. 
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 7/6/2013
• Screening for TWIST1 inhibitors as treatment for lung cancer. 
  2/18/2013
• Twist1-Mediated Cultivation of the Pre-Metastatic Niche. 
  11/15/2012
• Concurrent versus sequential sorafenib therapy in combination with radiation for hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  10/11/2012
• Tran Lab Liver Cancer Studies. 
  7/11/2012
• A 20-Gene Expression Profile that is Prognostic in Human Liver Cancer Derived from a Twist1-Induced Liver Cancer Metastasis Model. 
  6/20/2012
• 20-Gene Expression Profile that is Prognostic in Human Liver Cancer Derived from a Twist1-Induced Liver Cancer Metastasis Model. 
  5/7/2012
• Using High-Dose Statins to Target MYC-overexpressing Prostate Cancers. 
  2/25/2012
• Inducible Twist1 Transgenic Mouse Models - Tools for Translational Discovery. 
  10/19/2011
• Generic radiosensitizers - Finding new uses for old drugs. 
  7/1/2011
• Reactivation of oncogene-induced senescence in lung tumors by inhibition of Twist1. 
  6/16/2011
• Inhibition of Twist1 as treatment for lung cancer. 
  6/15/2011
• Reactivation of oncogene-induced senescence as treatment for lung cancer. 
  4/21/2011
• TWIST1 and Embryonic Reawakening in benign prostatic hyperplasia revisited. 
  1/25/2011
• MYC as a biomarker to direct statin targeted radiosensitization for definitive treatment of prostate cancer. 
  1/14/2011
• Prostate Cancer: Prevention, Screening and Treatment Options. 
  11/20/2010
• Reactivation of oncogene-induced senescence in Kras lung tumors by inhibition of Twist1. 
  11/3/2010
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