Dr. Sharon Giordano, MD

• Medical Oncology

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• Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine

  Medical School, 1996

• Outcomes of the first pregnancy following fertility-sparing surgery for early-stage cervical cancer, 2021-10-01

• The Concomitant Use of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Proton Pump Inhibitors: Prevalence, Predictors and Impact on Survival and Discontinuation of Therapy in Older Adults with Cancer., 2019-01-03

• Rising and Falling Trends in the Use of Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy Near the End of Life in Older Patients With Cancer, 2019-05-29

• Impact of body mass index and operative approach on surgical morbidity and costs in women with endometrial carcinoma and hyperplasia, 2017-01-26

• Factors impacting time to ovarian cancer diagnosis based on classic symptom presentation in the United States, 2021-08-04

• Initiation of and Adherence to Tamoxifen and Aromatase Inhibitor Therapy Among Elderly Women with Ductal CarcinomaIn Situ, 2016-10-25

• POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION USE IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH BREAST AND COLORECTAL CANCER, 2018-04-24

• Adherence to treatment guidelines and survival for older patients with stage II or III colon cancer in Texas from 2001 to 2011, 2017-11-15

• Exploring and supporting older women's chemotherapy decision-making in early-stage breast cancer, 2021-12-23

• Bioscore: A staging system for breast cancer patients that reflects the prognostic significance of underlying tumor biology, 2017-07-19

• National trends, outcomes, and costs of radiation therapy in the management of low- and high-intermediate risk endometrial cancer, 2019-07-17

• Association of Bone Mineral Density Testing With Risk of Major Osteoporotic Fractures Among Older Men Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy to Treat Localized or Regional Prostate Cancer Bone Density Testing and Fractures After Androgen Deprivation Therapy, 2022-04-01

• Survival Outcomes Following Pregnancy or Assisted Reproductive Technologies After Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Study, 2022-06-29

• Metastatic Breast Cancer, Version 1.2012 Featured Updates to the NCCN Guidelines, 2012-07-01

• National Patterns of Care and Fertility Outcomes for Reproductive-aged Women with Endometrial Cancer or Atypical Hyperplasia, 2019-05-22

• Trends in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsies in Patients With Inflammatory Breast Cancer in the US Trends in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsies in Patients With Inflammatory Breast Cancer, 2022-02-11

• Population-Based Assessment of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Utilization of Radical Cystectomy for Patients Diagnosed With Bladder Cancer, 2017-05-05

• Employment disruption among women with gynecologic cancers, 2021-11-16

• Regional differences in recommended cancer treatment for the elderly, 2016-07-15

• Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in elderly women with ovarian cancer: rates of use and effectiveness, 2018-06-29

• Outcomes in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients Who Underwent a 21-Gene Expression Assay, 2017-02-15

• Problems in transition and quality of care: perspectives of breast cancer survivors, 2010-12-09

• Preferences for Communicating about Breast Cancer Screening among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Older Women, 2018-01-26

• Reduced Feeding Tube Duration with IMRT for Head and Neck Cancer: A SEER-Medicare Analysis, 2016-09-23

• Risk of Hospitalization Following Primary Treatment for Prostate Cancer, 2016-09-16

• POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATIONS DEFINED BY STOPP CRITERIA IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH BREAST AND COLORECTAL CANCER, 2019-02-19

• Clinical and economic evaluation of treatment strategies for T1N0 anal canal cancer, 2016-09-23

• Body mass index and attitudes towards health behaviors among women with endometrial cancer before and after treatment, 2019-12-15

• Financial Toxicity Impact on Younger vs. Older Adults with Cancer in the Setting of Care Delivery, 2022-04-13

• Incidence of Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Patients Receiving Poly-ADP Ribose Polymerase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Solid Tumors: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials, 2021-03-15

• Physician Variation in Management of Low-Risk Prostate Cancer: a Population-based Cohort Study, 2015-03-11

• Discerning the Survival Advantage among Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Radical Prostatectomy or Radiotherapy: The Limitations of Cancer Registry Data, 2017-01-18

• Cardiotoxicity and Cardiac Monitoring Among Chemotherapy-Treated Breast Cancer Patients., 2018-09-06

• Increased Utilization of Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET/CT) Imaging and Its Economic Impact for Patients Diagnosed with Bladder Cancer, 2017-07-26

• Opioid use and associated factors among pancreatic cancer patients diagnosed between 2007 and 2015, 2022-02-23

• Healthy Moves to Improve Lifestyle Behaviors of Cancer Survivors and Their Spouses: Feasibility and Preliminary Results of Intervention Efficacy, 2021-12-14

• Treatment patterns, outcomes, and costs for bowel obstruction in ovarian cancer, 2018-03-12

• Benefit of Adjuvant Brachytherapy Versus External Beam Radiation for Early Breast Cancer: Impact of Patient Stratification on Breast Preservation, 2013-11-21

• AML and MDS after adjuvant chemotherapy: A population based study among older breast cancer patients, 2017-12-13

• Other Primary Malignancies in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Breast Conserving Surgery and Radiation Therapy, 2012-12-06

• A method to predict breast cancer stage using Medicare claims, 2010-01-15

• Financial Burdens of Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Review of Risk Factors and Outcomes, 2019-10-01

• Trends and Outcomes of Proton Radiation Therapy Use for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, 2018-11-30

• Location of Receipt of Initial Treatment and Outcomes in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors, 2017-01-13

• Employment disruption following the diagnosis of endometrial cancer, 2020-11-09

• Delayed initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer, 2020-08-07

• A phase Ib study of entinostat plus lapatinib with or without trastuzumab in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer that progressed during trastuzumab treatment, 2019-05-17

• Delayed Initiation of Adjuvant Chemotherapy Among Patients With Breast Cancer, 2018-04-18

• Trends in Radiation for Bone Metastasis During a Period of Multiple National Quality Improvement Initiatives, 2019-03-08

• Geographic Variations and the Associated Factors in Adherence to and Persistence with Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy for the Privately Insured women Aged 18-64 with Breast Cancer in Texas, 2023-03-29

• Long-term Patient-Reported Outcomes in Older Breast Cancer Survivors: A Population-Based Survey Study, 2017-12-09

• Disparities in treatment and survival among elderly ovarian cancer patients, 2018-09-22

• Financial toxicity in cancer patients and subsequent risk of repeat acute care utilization, 2023-08-17

• Patient-reported outcomes in older breast cancer survivors with and without prior chemotherapy treatment, 2023-08-08

• Radiation Modality Utilization and Cardiopulmonary Mortality Risk in the Elderly with Esophageal Cancer, 2015-12-30

• Resistance to Discontinuing Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women: A Qualitative Study, 2018-04-17

• Three Lymphadenectomy Strategies in Low-Risk Endometrial Carcinoma: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, 2018-04-16

• Local Therapy Decisional Regret in Older Women With Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Study, 2019-02-01

• Pilot study of a Spanish language measure of financial toxicity in underserved Hispanic cancer patients with low English proficiency, 2023-07-10

• Low rate of cervical cancer screening among women with hematologic malignancies after stem cell transplant, 2018-02-09

• 2-Year Prevalence of Dysphagia and Related Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: an Updated SEER-Medicare Analysis, 2018-12-07

• National trends in bowel and upper abdominal procedures in ovarian cancer surgery, 2020-07-02

• Trends in Local Therapy Utilization and Cost for Early-Stage Breast Cancer in Older Women: Implications for Payment and Policy Reform, 2016-02-06

• Association between time to diagnosis, time to treatment, and ovarian cancer survival in the United States, 2022-09-06

• Evaluation of multiple transcriptomic gene risk signatures in male breast cancer, 2021-07-26

• Effectiveness of Radiation for Prevention of Mastectomy in Older Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Conservative Surgery, 2012-08-13

• Outcomes of the First Pregnancy After Fertility-Sparing Surgery For Early-Stage Ovarian Cancer, 2021-06-01

• Effect of Surgeon Factors on Long-Term Patient-Reported Outcomes After Breast Conserving Therapy in Older Breast Cancer Survivors, 2020-01-08

• Association of Second-generation Antiandrogens With Depression Among Patients With Prostate Cancer Second-generation Antiandrogens and Depression Among Patients With Prostate Cancer, 2021-12-23

• Trends in breast cancer mortality by stage at diagnosis among US young women, 2018-09-06

• How we use hospice: Hospice enrollment patterns and costs in elderly ovarian cancer patients, 2020-03-20

• Health Care Resource Utilization for Esophageal Cancer Using Proton versus Photon Radiation Therapy, 2022-06-23

• Concordance Between Electronic Health Record Data and Medicare Part D Claims Data for Oral Anticancer Drug Use Electronic Health Record Data and Medicare Part D Claims Data for Oral Anticancer Drug Use, 2020-04-30

• Short-form adaptive measure of financial toxicity from the Economic Strain and Resilience in Cancer (ENRICh) study: Derivation using modern psychometric techniques, 2022-08-25

• Utilization Patterns and Trends in Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Mutation Testing among Patients with Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Lung Cancer, 2016-11-11

• Anastrozole-Associated Joint Pain and Other Symptoms in Patients With Breast Cancer, 2012-12-18

• Complications After Mastectomy and Immediate Breast Reconstruction for Breast Cancer: A Claims-Based Analysis, 2016-03-27

• The Influence of Age on Guideline-Concordant Cancer Care for Elderly Patients in the United States, 2017-02-01

• Breast Cancer, Version 3.2013 Featured Updates to the NCCN Guidelines, 2014-04-03

• Total lifetime and cancer-related costs for elderly patients diagnosed with anal cancer in the United States, 2017-08-31

• Adjuvant 5-Fluorouracil /leucovorin, capecitabine, and oxaliplatin-related regimens for stage II / III colon cancer patients 66 years or older, 2022-10-13