KatherineSanchezMD

Breast Cancer

Medical Oncologist - Breast Oncologist - Breast Cancer Clinical Research

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Katherine Sanchez is a medical oncologist who specializes in treating breast cancer. She is a native New Mexican who moved back home in 2022 to serve women in the Albuquerque and Gallup communities.

Dr. Sanchez received her undergraduate degree, attended medical school, and completed a post-sophomore fellowship in pathology at the University of New Mexico and completed her Internal medicine residency at Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland, OR. She completed an immuno-oncology fellowship at Providence Cancer Institute, where she focused on the development of testing to predict response to immunotherapy in early-stage breast cancer, research she continues today. She then completed fellowship in Hematology/Oncology and a breast fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas.

At New Mexico Cancer Center she joined a team of female-physicians who treat breast cancer. She is working to bring clinical trials to NM that provide early access to medications. Beyond clinical trials, she is passionate about partnering with local resources to bring care and community into the cancer center and create an environment of support for breast cancer patients.

Providence Health & Services - Oregon/St Vincent Hospital and Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2018
University of New Mexico School of MedicineClass of 2015
University of New MexicoB.S., Biology, Chemistry, and Asian Studies, 2005 - 2009

Academic Excellence and Achievement Award in Pathology 2014
Research Recipient New Mexico IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), 2014

PubMed

Journal Articles

Immunotherapy in breast cancer: An overview of modern checkpoint blockage strategies and vaccines
Sanchez, K.G., Page, D.B., McArthur, H.L., Current problems in cancer, 1/1/2016
16s Metagenomic Sequencing Analysis of Gallbladder Cancer Patients in New Mexico
Gullapalli, RR., Sanchez, K.G., Wu J., Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 1/1/2015
16s Metagenomic Sequencing Method Using Archived FFPE Tissue: An Untapped Resource to Study the Cancer Microbiome
Sanchez, K.G., Wu J., Pomo, J.M., Gullapalli, R.R., Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 1/1/2015

Abstracts/Posters

Safety and efficacy of pembrolizumab plus capecitabine in metastatic triple negative breast cancer (mTNBC)
Johnson, J., Sanchez, K.G., Jernigan, J., American College of Physicians New Mexico Chapter Scientific Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2018
Multispectral immunofluorescence (mIHC) as a novel and complementary method of characterizing tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in early stage breast cancer (ESBC)
Page, D.B., Sanchez, K.G., Ballesteros-Merino, C., Martel, M., Bifulco, C., Urba, W.,, Fox, B., Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting; Susan G. Komen Oregon & SW Washington Annual Meeting, National Harbor, MD, 2016; Portland, OR, 2017, 1/1/2017
Headache and confusion, an easily missed presentation of CNS involvement by CLL
Sanchez, K.G., Southworth, C., James, T., American College of Physicians Oregon Chapter Scientific Meeting, Salem, OR, 1/1/2015
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage the Initial Manifestation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Flare
Sanchez, K.G., Wu J., Pomo, J.M., Gullapalli, R.R., American College of Physicians New Mexico Chapter Scientific Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 1/1/2014
Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia After Exposure to Cat Urine
Sanchez, K.G., Beeley, P., American College of Physicians New Mexico Chapter Scientific Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 1/1/2014
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Lectures

Evaluation of immunotherapy (I-O)-associated immune cell (IC) dynamics and PD-L1 expression using multispectral immunohistochemistry (mIHC) and single-cell hierarchica...
2019 ASCO Annual Meeting - 6/1/2019
ASCO Updates: Can immune checkpoint blockade combination therapy improve response rates in breast cancer?
Portland, OR - 1/1/2018
Immune checkpoint combinations for breast cancer
Portland, OR - 1/1/2018
Resolution Writing 101
Albuquerque, NM - 1/1/2012
Plasma Exchange and Apheresis Treatment
Albuquerque, NM - 1/1/2012
NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Albuquerque, NM - 1/1/2012
A Rare Case: Factor 12 Deficiency
Albuquerque, NM - 1/1/2012
Erythropoietin enhances growth in developing retinal cell cultures
Carmel, CA - 1/1/2010
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