Description of Research Expertise
Studies in diagnosis, prognosis, genetics and therapy of melanoma.
Selected Publications
Elder, DE, Editor-in-Chief, R Elenitsas, BL Johnson Jr, GF Murphy: Lever's Histopathology of the Skin. Ninth Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-7817-3742-7 : 2005.
Kesmodel SB, Giorgos C, Karakousis GC, Botbyl JD, Canter RJ, Lewis RT, Wahl PM, Alavi A, Elder DE, Ming ME, Guerry D, Gimotty PA, Fraker DL, Czerniecki BJ, Spitz FR: Mitotic rate as a predictor of sentinel lymph node positivity in patients with thin melanomas. Ann Surg Oncol 12 (6): 449-458,2005.
Fang D, Nguyen TK, Leishear K, Finko R, Kulp AN, Hotz S, Van Belle PA, Xu X, Elder DE, and Herlyn M: A tumorigenic subpopulation with stem cell properties in melanomas Cancer Research submitted : 2005.
Zhang T, Somasundaram R, Caputo L, Van Bell P, Elder D, Czerniecki B, Hotz S, Schuchter L, Fraker D, Spitz FR, Berensci K, Rani P, Marincola F, Qui R, and Herlyn D: Preferential involvement of CX-chemokine receptor-4 and CX-chemokine ligand-12 in T-cell migration toward melanoma cells Submitted JNCI : 2005.
Flaherty KT, Schuchter LM, Tuveson D, Elder D, Van Belle P, Johnson S, Rosen M, Redlinger M, Weber B, O'Dwyer PJ: Wistar Institute/University of Pennsylvana Skin Cancer SPORE Phase II trials of sorafenib (BAY 43-9006) in melanoma: efficacy in combination with chemotherapy and correlative studies of mechanism of action in metastatic melanoma. Annual SPORE meeting, Bethesda, MD SPORE Annual Meeting Abstracts : 2005.
Academic Contact Information
Division of Anatomic Pathology, 6 Founders
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia,
PA
19104
Phone: 215-662-6503