Dr. Jose Karam, MD

• Urology

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• American University Of Beirut Faculty Of Medicine

  Medical School, 2002

• Intraoperative and Early Postoperative Complications in Post-Chemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymphadenectomy for Patients with Germ Cell Tumors Using Validated Grading Classifications, 2020-09-17

• Uc.416 + A promotes epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition through miR-153 in renal cell carcinoma, 2018-10-04

• Integrated Transcriptomic-Genomic profiling using Texomer reveals novel biology from cancer tissues, 2019-04-15

• Temsirolimus versus Pazopanib (TemPa) in Patients with Advanced Clear-cell Renal Cell Carcinoma and Poor-risk Features: A Randomized Phase II Trial, 2019-07-02

• SALVAGE TOPICAL THERAPY FOR UPPER TRACT UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA, 2018-05-26

• Percentage Sarcomatoid Component as a Prognostic Indicator for Survival in Renal Cell Carcinoma with Sarcomatoid Dedifferentiation, 2015-05-23

• Very Late Recurrence in Germ Cell Tumor of the Testis: Lessons and Implications, 2022-02-23

• Efficacy and Safety of Bevacizumab Plus Erlotinib in Patients with Renal Medullary Carcinoma, 2021-04-30

• Prognosticators and Outcomes of Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma and Adjacent Organ Invasion Treated with Radical Nephrectomy, 2015-12-18

• Adjuvant therapy in patients with sarcomatoid RCC: Post hoc analysis from ECOG-ACRIN E2805, 2021-09-23

• Prognostic significance of promoter CpG island methylation of obesity-related genes in non-metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients, 2017-05-23

• Clinically Non-Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma With Sarcomatoid Dedifferentiation: Natural History and Outcomes after Surgical Resection with Curative Intent, 2015-02-17

• The Role Of Metastasectomy In Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma With Sarcomatoid Dedifferentiation: A Matched Controlled Analysis, 2016-03-29

• Prolyl Hydroxylase 3 Knockdown AcceleratesVHL-Mutant Kidney Cancer Growth In Vivo, 2021-03-11

• A Causal Framework for Making Individualized Treatment Decisions in Oncology, 2022-08-14

• Tumor diameter response in patients with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma is associated with overall survival, 2021-09-20

• Unique protein expression signatures of survival time in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma through a pan-cancer screening, 2017-10-03

• Local Consolidative Therapy versus Maintenance Therapy/Observation for Patients with Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer without Progression after Front-Line Systemic Therapy: Results of a Multi-Institutional Phase II Randomized Study, 2016-10-24

• Resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy is associated with an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in metastatic renal cell carcinoma, 2015-05-26

• PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY IN THE SETTING OF METASTATIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA, 2014-02-08

• Predictors of Survival in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Renal Cell Carcinoma and Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus, 2022-02-09

• Outcomes of Radiofrequency Ablation for Solitary T1a Renal Cell Carcinoma: A 20-Year Tertiary Cancer Center Experience, 2023-01-31

• Predictive capacity of a miRNA panel in identifying teratoma in post-chemotherapy consolidation surgeries, 2022-07-05

• Intratumoral heterogeneity and chemoresistance in nonseminomatous germ cell tumor of the testis, 2016-11-16

• Neddylation inhibition sensitises renal medullary carcinoma tumours to platinum chemotherapy, 2023-05-25

• Outcomes of Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma and Sarcomatoid Dedifferentiation Treated with Nephrectomy and Systemic Therapies Over Three Decades: Comparison Between the Cytokine (1987-2005) and the Targeted Therapy (2006-2015) Eras, 2017-04-11

• Real-Time Interrogation of Aspirin Reactivity, Biochemistry, and Biodistribution by Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, 2019-02-20

• Association of High-Intensity Exercise with Renal Medullary Carcinoma in Individuals with Sickle Cell Trait: Clinical Observations and Experimental Animal Studies, 2021-11-30

• Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma Has a Distinct Molecular Pathogenesis, Driver Mutation Profile and Transcriptional Landscape, 2017-07-14

• Phase II trial of neoadjuvant sitravatinib plus nivolumab in patients undergoing nephrectomy for locally advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, 2023-05-10

• Metastases to the Kidney: A Comprehensive Analysis of 151 Patients from a Tertiary Referral Center, 2015-07-05

• Harnessing the Genomic Landscape of the Small Renal Mass to Guide Clinical Management, 2019-04-28

• Origin of Subsequent Malignant Neoplasms in Patients with History of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor, 2020-12-14

• Illness Uncertainty and Quality of Life of Patients with Small Renal Tumors Undergoing Watchful Waiting: A 2-year Prospective Study, 2013-02-09

• Prognosis of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and pancreatic metastases, 2015-07-06

• Phase II Trial Of Neoadjuvant Axitinib In Patients With Locally Advanced Non-Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, 2014-02-07

• Intratumoral Morphologic and Molecular Heterogeneity of Rhabdoid Renal Cell Carcinoma: Challenges for Personalized Therapy, 2015-06-26

• Genomic DNA hypomethylation and risk of renal cell carcinoma: A case-control study, 2015-12-11

• Pilot study of Tremelimumab with and without cryoablation in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, 2021-11-04

• Targeting MET and AXL overcomes resistance to sunitinib therapy in renal cell carcinoma, 2015-09-14

• Radiofrequency ablation of renal tumours with clinical, radiographical and pathological results, 2013-03-19

• Variability of Inter-observer Agreement on Feasibility of Partial Nephrectomy Before and After Neoadjuvant Axitinib for Locally Advanced RCC: Independent Analysis from a Phase II Trial, 2015-06-29

• Disease reclassification risk with stringent criteria and frequent monitoring in men with favorable-risk prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance, 2015-07-04

• The Effects Of Neoadjuvant Axitinib On Anthropometric Parameters In Patients With Locally Advanced Non-Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma, 2017-07-10

• Pathologic Predictors of Survival During Lymph Node Dissection for Metastatic Renal-Cell Carcinoma: Results From a Multicenter Collaboration, 2017-10-17

• Definitive Radiotherapy for Extracranial Oligoprogressive Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma as a Strategy to Defer Systemic Therapy Escalation, 2021-07-23

• Everolimus Versus Sunitinib Prospective Evaluation in Metastatic Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ESPN): A Randomized Multicenter Phase 2 Trial, 2015-11-26

• RNA-seq Reveals Aurora Kinase Driven-mTOR Pathway Activation in Patients with Sarcomatoid Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma, 2014-09-02

• p53 is a master regulator of proteostasis inSMARCB1-deficient malignant rhabdoid tumors, 2019-02-11

• PD-L1 and Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes Status in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma and Sarcomatoid Dedifferentiation, 2017-08-22

• A generative adversarial approach to facilitate archival-quality histopathologic diagnoses from frozen tissue sections, 2021-12-28

• Genomic investigation of etiologic heterogeneity: methodologic challenges, 2014-12-22

• DNA Methylation Signature Reveals Cell Ontogeny of Renal Cell Carcinomas, 2016-06-02

• Gene-environment interaction of genome-wide association study-identified susceptibility loci and meat-cooking mutagens in renal cell carcinoma etiology, 2015-11-09