Dr. Christopher Wolfgang, MD

• General Surgery

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• The Johns Hopkins Hospital

  Fellowship Hospital, 2005

• Milton Hershey Medical Center

  Residency Hospital, 2004

• Milton Hershey Medical Center

  Internship Hospital, 1999

• Temple University Lewis Katz School Of Medicine

  Medical School, 1998

• Lymphocyte-Sparing Effect of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Patients With Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer, 2015-12-01

• Impact of Sarcopenia on Outcomes Following Intra-arterial Therapy of Hepatic Malignancies, 2013-09-25

• Loss of ATRX or DAXX expression and concomitant acquisition of the alternative lengthening of telomeres phenotype are late events in a small subset of MEN-1 syndrome pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, 2012-05-11

• Dissecting the stromal signaling and regulation of myeloid cells and memory effector T cells in pancreatic cancer, 2019-06-11

• An Aggressive Approach to Locally Confined Pancreatic Cancer: Defining Surgical and Oncologic Outcomes Unique to Pancreatectomy with Celiac Axis Resection (DP-CAR), 2020-10-13

• Postoperative complications after resection of borderline resectable and locally advanced pancreatic cancer: The impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with conventional radiation or stereotactic body radiation therapy, 2018-03-12

• Very long-term survival following resection for pancreatic cancer is not explained by commonly mutated genes: results of whole-exome sequencing analysis, 2015-01-26

• Patient-reported outcomes of a multicenter phase 2 study investigating gemcitabine and stereotactic body radiation therapy in locally advanced pancreatic cancer, 2016-05-25

• New Development of Biomarkers for Gastrointestinal Cancers: From Neoplastic Cells to Tumor Microenvironment, 2018-08-13

• Genomic sequencing identifiesELF3as a driver of ampullary carcinoma, 2016-01-21

• ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY AFTER PANCREATIC RESECTION FOR INVASIVE CARCINOMA ASSOCIATED WITH INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASM OF THE PANCREAS, 2009-08-03

• Comparison of conventional and 3-dimensional computed tomography against histopathologic examination in determining pancreatic adenocarcinoma tumor size: Implications for radiation therapy planning, 2012-08-08

• PD-1/PD-L1 blockade together with vaccine therapy facilitates effector T cell infiltration into pancreatic tumors, 2014-11-19

• Tumors with unmethylatedMLH1and the CpG island methylator phenotype are associated with a poor prognosis in stage II colorectal cancer patients, 2016-11-12

• Surgical management of giant Brunner's gland hamartoma: case report and literature review, 2009-09-02

• Multiplex Proximity Ligation Assay to Identify Potential Prognostic Biomarkers for Improved Survival in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Patients Treated With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, 2017-10-12

• Using Artificial Intelligence to find the optimal margin width in hepatectomy for colorectal cancer liver metastases, 2022-08-10

• Prevalence of Germline Mutations Associated with Cancer Risk in Patients With Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms, 2019-02-01

• Challenges of the current precision medicine approach for pancreatic cancer: A single institution experience between 2013 and 2017, 2020-10-28

• miRNA Biomarkers in Cyst Fluid Augment the Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic Cysts, 2012-06-21

• Early Mortality Risk Score: Identification of Poor Outcomes Following Upfront Surgery for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer, 2012-02-07

• Immunotherapy Converts Non-immunogenic Pancreatic Tumors into Immunogenic Foci of Immune Regulation, 2014-06-18

• Pancreatic cancer arising in the remnant pancreas is not always a relapse of the preceding primary, 2018-11-22

• Time to progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma from low-to-high tumour stages, 2015-01-30

• Presence of Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia in the Pancreatic Transection Margin does not Influence Outcome in Patients with R0 Resected Pancreatic Cancer, 2011-05-03

• Clinicopathological Characteristics and Molecular Analyses of Multifocal Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas, 2012-12-20

• Assessing Readmission After General, Vascular, and Thoracic Surgery Using ACS-NSQIP, 2015-09-30

• Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Cystlike Changes: Evaluation With MDCT, 2014-04-04

• Recent Progress in Pancreatic Cancer, 2013-07-15

• A Multi-Institutional Validation Study of Pancreatic Cyst Fluid Protein Analysis for Prediction of High-Risk Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (IPMN) of the Pancreas, 2017-07-12

• Multi-omic analyses of changes in the tumor microenvironment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma following neoadjuvant treatment with anti-PD-1 therapy, 2022-10-27

• A Novel Risk Scoring System Reliably Predicts Readmission Following Pancreatectomy, 2015-01-08

• Impact of the Time Interval Between MDCT Imaging and Surgery on the Accuracy of Identifying Metastatic Disease in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer, 2016-05-13

• The Impact of Clinical and Pathological Features on Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm Recurrence After Surgical Resection Long-term Follow-up Analysis, 2020-11-17

• Evaluation of predictive variables in locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients receiving definitive chemoradiation, 2011-08-03

• TGF-ß blockade depletes T regulatory cells from metastatic pancreatic tumors in a vaccine dependent manner, 2015-10-15

• Reliable Detection of Somatic Mutations in Fine Needle Aspirates of Pancreatic Cancer with Next-Generation Sequencing: Implications for Surgical Management, 2015-05-15

• Impact of adjuvant external beam radiotherapy on survival in surgically resected gallbladder adenocarcinoma: A propensity score-matched Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis, 2013-07-19

• Circulating Tumor Cell Phenotype Predicts Recurrence and Survival in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, 2016-05-17

• Grading of Well-differentiated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Is Improved by the Inclusion of Both Ki67 Proliferative Index and Mitotic Rate, 2013-12-24

• The Genetic And Morphological Evaluation (GAME) score for patients with Colorectal Liver Metastases, 2018-04-25

• Smoking Is Not Associated with Severe Dysplasia or Invasive Carcinoma in Resected Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms, 2014-12-05

• Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms: Have IAP Consensus Guidelines Changed our Approach? Results from a Multi-institutional Study, 2021-12-01

• Patient-derived organoid pharmacotyping is a clinically tractable strategy for precision medicine in pancreatic cancer, 2020-09-01

• Adult Pancreatic Hemangioma: Case Report and Literature Review, 2009-05-03

• Multi-institutional Development and External Validation of a Nomogram to Predict Recurrence After Curative Resection of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors, 2021-12-01

• Toward an Optimized Staging System for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Clinically Interpretable, Artificial Intelligence-Based Model, 2021-12-22

• Impact Total Psoas Volume on Short- and Long-Term Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Curative Resection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: a New Tool to Assess Sarcopenia, 2015-04-30

• Surgical Resection of Malignant Melanoma Metastatic to the Pancreas: Case Series and Review of Literature, 2013-06-19

• Clinicopathological Correlates of ActivatingGNASMutations in Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm (IPMN) of the Pancreas, 2013-07-12

• Long-Term Outcomes in Treatment of Retroperitoneal Sarcomas: A 15 Year Single-Institution Evaluation of Prognostic Features, 2016-04-13

• Precision Immuno-Oncology: Prospects of Individualized Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer, 2018-01-30

• Blood Type as a Predictor of High-Grade Dysplasia and Associated Malignancy in Patients with Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms, 2018-09-04

• Survival in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer After Neoadjuvant Therapy and Surgical Resection, 2018-09-22

• Baseline Metabolic Tumor Volume and Total Lesion Glycolysis Are Associated With Survival Outcomes in Patients With Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Receiving Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, 2014-04-18

• The impact of resident involvement on surgical outcomes among patients undergoing hepatic and pancreatic resections, 2015-05-21

• Vaccine-Induced Intratumoral Lymphoid Aggregates Correlate with Survival Following Treatment with a Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Vaccine in Patients with Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, 2020-12-04

• Implications of the Pattern of Disease Recurrence on Survival Following Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, 2018-06-14

• Whole genomes redefine the mutational landscape of pancreatic cancer, 2015-02-26

• Genetic analyses of isolated high-grade pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HG-PanIN) reveal paucity of alterations inTP53andSMAD4, 2017-03-30

• Pancreaticoduodenectomy and Superior Mesenteric Vein Resection Without Reconstruction for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer, 2018-01-23

• Institutional Experience With Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasms: Focus on Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Conventional Ultrasound, Endoscopic Ultrasound, and Predictors of Aggressive Histology, 2014-04-09

• Cancer associated fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer are reprogrammed by tumor-induced alterations in genomic DNA methylation, 2016-08-05

• Palliative Surgical Management of Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Trends and Lessons Learned from a Large, Single Institution Experience, 2011-09-13

• Baseline Hemoglobin-A1c Impacts Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer, 2014-06-14

• Is a Pathological Complete Response Following Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Associated With Prolonged Survival in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer?, 2018-09-29

• Evaluation of adjuvant chemoradiation therapy for ampullary adenocarcinoma: the Johns Hopkins Hospital - Mayo Clinic collaborative study, 2011-09-28

• Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided fiducial placement allows localization of small neuroendocrine tumors during parenchymal-sparing pancreatic surgery, 2013-04-30

• Correlation of Smad4 Status With Outcomes in Patients Receiving Erlotinib Combined With Adjuvant Chemoradiation and Chemotherapy After Resection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, 2013-11-01

• Anti-IL-8 antibody activates myeloid cells and potentiates the anti-tumor activity of anti-PD-1 antibody in the humanized pancreatic cancer murine model, 2022-05-07

• Long-term survival after resection of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the pancreas: an updated experience, 2017-07-03

• Inhibition of focal adhesion kinase enhances antitumor response of radiation therapy in pancreatic cancer through CD8+ T cells, 2021-02-15

• Serotonin Expression in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Correlates with a Trabecular Histologic Pattern and Large Duct Involvement, 2012-01-04

• The Genetic Basis of Pancreas Cancer Development and Progression: Insights From Whole-Exome and Whole-Genome Sequencing, 2012-08-15

• Sarcopenia Adversely Impacts Postoperative Complications Following Resection or Transplantation in Patients with Primary Liver Tumors, 2014-11-12

• The Role of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: A Single-Institution Experience, 2015-01-07

• Liquid Biopsy as Surrogate for Tissue for Molecular Profiling in Pancreatic Cancer: A Meta-Analysis Towards Precision Medicine, 2019-08-10

• CpG Island Methylator Phenotype Positive Tumors in the Absence ofMLH1Methylation Constitute a Distinct Subset of Duodenal Adenocarcinomas and Are Associated with Poor Prognosis, 2012-07-23

• Phase 2 Multi-institutional Trial Evaluating Gemcitabine and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Patients With Locally Advanced Unresectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, 2014-12-23

• Resection of borderline resectable pancreatic cancer after neoadjuvant chemoradiation does not depend on improved radiographic appearance of tumor-vessel relationships, 2013-09-22

• Resected pancreatic adenosquamous carcinoma: clinicopathologic review and evaluation of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation in 38 patients, 2009-10-03

• A Single Institution's 26-Year Experience With Nonfunctional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors A Validation of Current Staging Systems and a New Prognostic Nomogram, 2014-03-07

• Outcomes and Risk Score for Distal Pancreatectomy with Celiac Axis Resection (DP-CAR): An International Multicenter Analysis, 2019-01-04

• Circulating Tumor DNA as a Clinical Test in Resected Pancreatic Cancer, 2019-05-29

• Post-treatment surveillance of patients with colorectal cancer with surgically treated liver metastases, 2014-03-31

• Lack of association between the pancreatitis risk allele CEL-HYB and pancreatic cancer, 2017-02-07

• Conditional Survival in Patients With Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Resected With Curative Intent, 2011-09-20

• GNASsequencing identifies IPMN-specific mutations in a subgroup of diminutive pancreatic cysts referred to as "incipient IPMNs”, 2013-12-26

• Targeted DNA Sequencing Reveals Patterns of Local Progression in the Pancreatic Remnant Following Resection of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm (IPMN) of the Pancreas, 2016-09-02

• A new immunohistochemistry prognostic score (IPS) for recurrence and survival in resected pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNET), 2016-02-17

• Resected Early-Onset Pancreatic Cancer: Practices and Outcomes in an International Dual-Center Study, 2022-12-07

• POORLY DIFFERENTIATED NEUROENDOCRINE CARCINOMAS OF THE PANCREAS: A CLINICOPATHOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF 44 CASES, 2014-03-22

• IPMNs with co-occurring invasive cancers: neighbours but not always relatives, 2018-03-02

• The Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer: What Will it Take to Diagnose and Treat Curable Pancreatic Neoplasia?, 2014-06-12

• Pattern of invasion in human pancreatic cancer organoids is associated with loss of SMAD4 and clinical outcome, 2020-05-06

• Pancreatic cancer genomes reveal aberrations in axon guidance pathway genes, 2012-10-24

• Duodenal neuroendocrine tumors: retrospective evaluation of CT imaging features and pattern of metastatic disease on dual-phase MDCT with pathologic correlation, 2015-01-30

• Genetic Analysis of Small Well-differentiated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Identifies Subgroups With Differing Risks of Liver Metastases, 2018-10-17

• Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms Arise from Multiple Independent Clones, Each With Distinct Mutations, 2019-06-05

• Single-cell sequencing defines genetic heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer precursor lesions, 2019-01-16

• Defining Incidence and Risk Factors of Venous Thromboemolism after Hepatectomy, 2013-12-13

• Impact of Sarcopenia on Outcomes Following Resection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, 2012-06-13

• Immune cell atlas of cholangiocarcinomas reveals distinct tumor microenvironments and associated prognoses, 2022-03-28

• Alternative lengthening of telomeres and ATRX/DAXX loss can reliably be detected in fine needle aspirates of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, 2017-04-03

• Young Patients Undergoing Resection of Pancreatic Cancer Fare Better than their Older Counterparts, 2012-11-27

• Development and Validation of a Multi-Institutional Preoperative Nomogram for Predicting Grade of Dysplasia in Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (IPMNs) of the Pancreas: A Report from The Pancreatic Surgery Consortium, 2017-07-14

• Unnecessary Tests and Procedures in Patients Presenting with Solid Tumors of the Pancreas, 2013-05-04

• A Systematic Review of Solid-Pseudopapillary Neoplasms: Are these rare lesions?, 2015-04-22

• Is There a Difference in Survival Between Right-Versus Left-Sided Colon Cancers?, 2008-07-12

• Survival Outcomes of Adjuvant Chemotherapy Combined With Radiation Versus Chemotherapy Alone After Pancreatectomy for Distal Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma A Single-Institution Experience, 2021-01-01

• A Combination of Molecular Markers and Clinical Features Improve the Classification of Pancreatic Cysts, 2015-08-04

• Direct Interactions With Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Lead to Enhanced Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cell Function, 2019-01-01

• Randomized Phase III Multi-Institutional Study of TNFerade Biologic With Fluorouracil and Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Final Results, 2013-01-22

• Prognosis of Minimally Invasive Carcinoma Arising in Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas, 2012-10-15

• Resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas with recurrence limited in lung have a significantly better prognosis than those with other recurrence patterns, 2015-09-10

• The Impact of Postoperative Complications on the Administration of Adjuvant Therapy Following Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Adenocarcinoma, 2014-04-26

• Recurrence Patterns and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Noncirrhotic Liver: A Multi-Institutional Analysis, 2014-03-31

• Management of Type 9 Hepatic Arterial Anatomy at the time of Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Considerations for Preservation and Reconstruction of a Completely Replaced Common Hepatic Artery, 2016-05-02

• Long-term survival benefit of upfront chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed borderline resectable pancreatic cancer, 2017-06-21

• Multi-Institutional validation study of the American Joint Commission on Cancer (8thedition) changes for T and N staging in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma, 2017-09-09

• Histomorphology of pancreatic cancer in patients with inherited ATM serine/threonine kinase pathogenic variants, 2019-07-08

• Adjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy for Adenocarcinoma of the Distal Pancreas, 2010-08-03

• Methylation ofMGMTIs Associated with Poor Prognosis in Patients with Stage III Duodenal Adenocarcinoma, 2016-09-19

• What is the Significance of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules in Patients Undergoing Resection for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma?, 2015-01-17

• Treating Patients with Colon Cancer Liver Metastasis: A Nationwide Analysis of Therapeutic Decision Making, 2012-08-09

• Histopathologic Basis for the Favorable Survival after Resection of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm-Associated Invasive Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas, 2012-08-15

• Anti-pancreatic tumor efficacy of a Listeria-based, Annexin A2-targeting immunotherapy in combination with anti-PD-1 antibodies, 2019-05-22

• Circulating Tumor Cells Expressing Markers of Tumor Initiating Cells Predict Poor Survival and Cancer Recurrence in Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, 2016-10-27

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Pathological Characteristics of Resected Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, 2016-10-12

• Defining and Predicting Early Recurrence in 957 Patients With Resected Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, 2018-09-22

• The Role of Liver-directed Surgery in Patients with Hepatic Metastasis from a Gynecologic Primary Carcinoma, 2013-01-25

• Invasive and Noninvasive Progression After Resection of Noninvasive Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms, 2020-11-17

• PATHOLOGIC EVALUATION AND REPORTING OF INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY MUCINOUS NEOPLASMS (IPMNs) OF THE PANCREAS AND OTHER TUMORAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASMS OF PANCREATOBILIARY TRACT: RECOMMENDATIONS OF VERONA CONSENSUS MEETING, 2015-02-15