Wendy A. Woodward MD MD, PhD

PubMed

• Development of a Multi-Institutional Dataset to Validate a Novel Inflammatory Breast Cancer Diagnostic Score.
  Filipa Lynce, Samuel M Niman, Megumi Kai, Sean Ryan Ma, Elizabeth Troll
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2025-03-31
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  Adding Metastasis-Directed Therapy to Standard-of-Care Systemic Therapy for Oligometastatic Breast Cancer (EXTEND): A Multicenter, Randomized Phase 2 Trial.
  Jay P Reddy, Alexander D Sherry, Bryan Fellman, Suyu Liu, Tharakeswara Bathala
  International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2025-03-15
• Cholesterol efflux protein, ABCA1, supports anti-cancer functions of myeloid immune cells.
  Shruti V Bendre, Yu Wang, Basel Hajyousif, Rajendra K C, Shounak G Bhogale
  Biorxiv. 2025-02-19

Journal Articles

• Rates of Immune Cell Infiltration in Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer by Molecular Subtype  
  Wendy A Woodward, Naoto T Ueno, Savitri Krishnamurthy, Bora Lim, PLoS One
• Association of Transforming Growth Factor Β Polymorphism C−509T with Radiation-Induced Fibrosis Among Patients with Early-Stage Breast CancerA Secondary Analysis of a ...  
  Karen E Hoffman, Elizabeth S Bloom, Pamela J Schlembach, Thomas A Buchholz, Benjamin D Smith, Wendy A Woodward, Welela Tereffe, Simona F Shaitelman, Michael C Stauder, JAMA
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer: What to Know About This Unique, Aggressive Breast Cancer  
  Michael C Stauder, Anthony Lucci, Wendy A Woodward, Bora Lim, Naoto T Ueno, ScienceDirect
• Analysis of Hierarchical Organization in Gene Expression Networks Reveals Underlying Principles of Collective Tumor Cell Dissemination and Metastatic Aggressiveness of...  
  Wendy Woodward, MD, Frontiers in Neurology
• Overall survival differences between patients with inflammatory and noninflammatory breast cancer presenting with distant metastasis at diagnosis  
  Fouad TM, Kogawa T, Liu DD, Shen Y, Masuda H, El-Zein R, Woodward WA, Chavez-MacGregor M, Alvarez RH, Arun B, Lucci A, Krishnamurthy S, Babiera G, Buchholz TA, Valero ..., Breast Cancer Res Treat, 1/29/2015
• Inflammation Mediated Metastasis: Immune Induced Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition in Inflammatory Breast Cancer Cells  
  Cohen EN, Gao H, Anfossi S, Mego M, Reddy NG, Debeb B, Giordano A, Tin S, Wu Q, Garza RJ, Cristofanilli M, Mani SA, Croix DA, Ueno NT, Woodward WA, Luthra R, Krishnamu..., PLoS One, 1/24/2015
• Acute and Short-term Toxic Effects of Conventionally Fractionated vs Hypofractionated Whole-Breast Irradiation: A Randomized Clinical Trial  
  Shaitelman SF, Schlembach PJ, Arzu I, Ballo M, Bloom ES, Buchholz D, Chronowski GM, Dvorak T, Grade E, Hoffman KE, Kelly P, Ludwig M, Perkins GH, Reed V, Shah S, Staud..., JAMA Oncol, 1/6/2015
• Should surgery referral be standard practice in metastatic inflammatory breast cancer?  
  Woodward WA, Ann Surg Oncol, 1/1/2015
• Role of Ultrasonography of Regional Nodal Basins in Staging Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Implications For Local-Regional Treatment  
  Shaitelman SF, Tereffe W, Dogan BE, Hess KR, Caudle AS, Valero V, Stauder MC, Krishnamurthy S, Candelaria RP, Strom EA, Woodward WA, Hunt KK, Buchholz TA, Whitman GJ, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1/1/2015
• Mesenchymal stem cells mediate the clinical phenotype of inflammatory breast cancer in a preclinical model  
  Lacerda L, Debeb BG, Smith D, Larson R, Solley T, Xu W, Krishnamurthy S, Gong Y, Levy LB, Buchholz T, Ueno NT, Klopp A, Woodward WA, Breast Cancer Res, 1/1/2015
• Patched targeted peptides for imaging and treatment of hedgehog positive breast tumors  
  Smith D, Kong F, Yang D, Larson R, Sims-Mourtada J, Woodward WA, Biomed Res Int, 1/1/2014
• Biomarker Modulation following Shirt-Term Vorinostat in Women with Newly Diagnosed Primary Breast Cancer  
  Woodward WA, Stearns V, Jacobs LK, Fackler MJ, et al, Breast Diseases: A Yearbook Quarterly, 1/1/2014
• High serum miR-19a levels are associated with inflammatory breast cancer and are predictive of favorable clinical outcome in patients with metastatic HER2(+) inflammat...  
  Anfossi S, Giordano A, Gao H, Cohen EN, Tin S, Wu Q, Garza RJ, Debeb BG, Alvarez RH, Valero V, Hortobagyi GN, Calin GA, Ueno NT, Woodward WA, Reuben JM, PLoS One, 1/1/2014
• Web based pathology assessment in RTOG 98-04  
  Woodward WA, Sneige N, Winter K, Kuerer HM, Hudis C, Rakovitch E, Smith BL, Pierce LJ, Germano I, Pu AT, Walker EM, Grisell DL, White JR, McCormick B, for the Radiatio..., J Clin Pathol, 1/1/2014
• ATM-mediated stabilization of ZEB1 promotes DNA damage response and radioresistance through CHK1  
  Zhang P, Wei Y, Wang L, Debeb BG, Yuan Y, Zhang J, Yuan J, Wang M, Chen D, Sun Y, Woodward WA, Liu Y, Dean DC, Liang H, Hu Y, Ang KK, Hung MC, Chen J, Ma L, Nat Cell Biol, 1/1/2014
• Implementation of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z1071 trial data in clinical practice: is there a way forward for sentinel lymph node dissection in c...  
  Mittendorf EA, Caudle AS, Yang W, Krishnamurthy S, Shaitelman S, Chavez-MacGregor M, Woodward WA, Bedrosian I, Kuerer HM, Hunt KK, Ann Surg Oncol, 1/1/2014
• Long-term treatment efficacy in primary inflammatory breast cancer by hormonal receptor- and HER2-defined subtypes  
  Masuda H, Brewer TM, Liu DD, Iwamoto T, Shen Y, Hsu L, Willey JS, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Chavez-MacGregor M, Fouad TM, Woodward WA, Reuben JM, Valero V, Alvarez RH, Horto..., Ann Oncol, 1/1/2014
• Gene expression profiles of inflammatory breast cancer: correlation with response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and metastasis-free survival  
  Bertucci F, Ueno NT, Finetti P, Vermeulen P, Lucci A, Robertson FM, Marsan M, Iwamoto T, Krishnamurthy S, Masuda H, Van Dam P, Woodward WA, Cristofanilli M, Reuben JM,..., Ann Onco, 1/1/2014
• Radiation therapy for inflammatory breast cancer: technical considerations and diverse clinical scenarios  
  Woodward WA, Koay E, Takiar V, Breast Cancer Manage, 1/1/2014
• Statistical modeling approach to quantitative analysis on inter-observer variability in breast contouring  
  Yang J, Woodward WA, Reed VK, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Buchholz TA, Zhang L, Balter P, Court LE, Li XA, Dong L, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1/1/2014
• Human omental-derived adipose stem cells increase ovarian cancer proliferation, migration, and chemoresistance  
  Nowicka A, Marini FC, Solley TN, Elizondo PB, Zhang Y, Sharp HJ, Broaddus R, Kolonin M, Mok SC, Thompson MS, Woodward WA, Lu K, Salimian B, Nagrath D, Klopp AH, PLoS One, 1/1/2013
• Genomic and expression analysis of microdissected inflammatory breast cancer  
  Woodward WA, Krishnamurthy S, Yamauchi H, El-Zein R, Ogura D, Kitadai E, Niwa S, Cristofanilli M, Vermeulen P, Dirix L, Viens P, van Laere S, Bertucci F, Reuben JM, Ue..., Breast Cancer Res Treat, 1/1/2013
• Clinical relevance of cancer stem cells in bone marrow of early breast cancer patients  
  Giordano A, Gao H, Cohen EN, Anfossi S, Khoury J, Hess K, Krishnamurthy S, Tin S, Cristofanilli M, Hortobagyi GN, Woodward WA, Lucci A, Reuben JM, Ann Oncol, 1/1/2013
• Pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with Trastuzumab predicts for improved survival in women with HER2-overexpressing breast cancer  
  Kim MM, Allen P, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Woodward WA, Meric-Bernstam F, Buzdar AU, Hunt KK, Kuerer HM, Litton JK, Hortobagyi GN, Buchholz TA, Mittendorf EA, Ann Oncol, 1/1/2013
• ALDH1 expression is enriched in breast cancers arising in young women but does not predict outcome:Tan EY, Breast Surgical Team at Outram (Tan Tock Seng Hosp, Singapor...  
  Woodward WA, Tan EY, Breast Surgical Team, Breast Diseases: A Yearbook Quarterly, 1/1/2013
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Books/Book Chapters

• Breast Cancer 
  Chapter: Inflammatory breast cancer 
  Lim B, Stauder MC, Woodward WA, Lucci A, Ueno NTEditors: Hunt KK, Robb GL, Strom EA, Ueno NT.Springer, New York, NYEdition 3rd,2016
• Current Breast Cancer Reports 
  Chapter: Locoregional treatment of the patient with inflammatory breast cancer 
  Page 37 - 42Stauder MC and Woodward WAEditors: A. Perez.2015
• Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease 
  Chapter: Metaplastic Carcinoma of the Breast 
  Page 1119 - 1132Gilcrease MZ, Babiera GV, Hennessy BT, Woodward WAEditors: GV Babiera, RJ Skoracki, FJ Esteva.People's Medical Publishing House, Shelton, CT2012
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer: An Update 
  Chapter: Models of Inflammatory Breast Cancer 
  Page 139 - 150Lacerda L, Woodward WAEditors: Ueno T, Fink T.Biomedical Sciences2012
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer: An Update 
  Chapter: Cell gene Expression signatures in inflammatory breast cancer 
  Page 259 - 270Woodward WAEditors: Ueno T, Fink T.Biomedical Sciences2012
• The Molecular Basis of Cancer 
  Chapter: Molecular basis of radiation therapy 
  Page 593 - 604Woodward WA, Cox JDEditors: Mendelsohn J, Howley PM, Israel MA, Gray JW, Thompson CB.WB Saunders Co, Philadelphia, PA2008
• Methods in Molecular Biology: Developmental Biology Protocols 
  Chapter: Embryonic limb mesenchyme micromass culture as an in vitro Model for chondrogenesis and cartilage maturation 
  Page 359 - 375DeLise AM, Stringa E, Woodward WA, Mello MA, Tuan RSHumana Press, NJ2000
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Abstracts/Posters

• Phase II Study of Panitumumab, Nab-paclitaxel, and Carboplatin Followed by FEC Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Patients with Primary HER-2 Negative Inflammatory Breast Ca...
  Matsuda N, Alvarez RH, Krishnamurthy S, Willey JS, Wang X, Lim B, Parker CA, Marx A, Babiera G, Booser DJ, Murray JL, Arun B, Brewster AM, Reuben JM, Woodward WA, Lucc..., Proceedings ASCO Annual Meeting, 1/1/2015
• EZH2 expression correlates with locoregional recurrence after radiation in inflammatory breast cancer
  Woodward WA, Huo L, Li J, Sneige N, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Debeb BG, Chang C, Hung M, Valero V, Ueno NT, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, Proceedings of ASTRO, 1/1/2012
• Omental adipose tissue-derived stromal cells promote vascularization and growth of endometrial tumors
  Woodward WA, 7th Annual Uterine Cancer Biology Symposium, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 1/19/2011
• The mechanism of anti-breast cancer TICs effect of pyrvinium pamoate is through WNT/beta-catenin signaling
  Xu W, Debeb B, de Lacerda L, Li L, Larson R, Reuben J, Ueno N, Woodward W, Cancer Research, 1/1/2011
• The effect of surviving downregulation on radiosensitization of breast cancer cell lines grown under adherent and stem cell promoting culture conditions
  Debeb BG, Larson R, Xu W, Lacerda L, Reuben JM, Buchholz TA, Ueno NT, Woodward WA, Cancer Research, 1/1/2011
• T-cell cytokine production related to progression of breast cancer patients
  Cohen EN, Gao H, Lee B-N, Giordano A, Tin S, Anfossi S, Parker CA, Cristofanilli M, Valero V, Alvarez RH, Hortobagyi GN, Woodward WA, Ueno NT, Reuben JM, Cancer Research, 1/1/2011
• Cytokine synthesis by activated dendritic cells in relation to disease progression in inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)
  Gao H, Cohen EN, Lee B-N, Giordano A, Tin S, Anfossi S, Parker CA, Cristofanilli M, Valero V, Alvarez RH, Hortobagyi GN, Woodward WA, Ueno NT, Reuben JM, Cancer Research, 1/1/2011
• Circulating tumor cells in newly diagnosed inflammatory breast cancer
  Mego M, Giordano A, De Giogi U, Hsu L, Lucci A, Dawood S, Woodward WA, Ueno NT, Valero V, Andreopoulou E, Hortobagyi GN, Reuben JM, Cristofanilli M, Cancer Research, 1/1/2011
• An integrated analysis of three distinct IBC/nIBC affymetrix gene expression data sets further unveils the molecular biology of IBC
  Van Laere SJ, Ueno NT, Finetti P, Vermeulen PB, Lucci A, Birnbaum D, Roberston FM, van Dam PA, Woodward WA, Viens P, Dirix LY, Reuben JM, Iwamoto T, Cristofanilli M, B..., Cancer Research, 1/1/2011
• A novel inflammatory breast cancer-specific oncogene, Tazarotene-induced gene 1, promotes tumorigenicity and invasiveness through the receptor tyrosine kinase Axl
  Wang X, Saso H, Iwamoto T, Pusztai L, Gong Y, Woodward WA, Reuben JM, Hortobagyi GN, Ueno NT, Cancer Research, 1/1/2011
• Estrogen receptor (ER) positive, progesterone receptor (PR) negative or ER-PR+ breast cancer predicts locoregional recurrence butnot distant metastases compared to ER+...
  Albert JM, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Guray M, Sahin A, Tereffe W, Woodward WA, Strom EA, Hunt KK, Tucker SL, Buchholz TA, Oncology, 1/1/2010
• FDG-PET response of lymph nodes to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer does not correlate with pathologic response
  Yu TK, Carkaci S, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Woodward WA, Oh JL, Rohren EM, Cristofanilli M, Yang WT, Buchholz TA, Oncology, 1/1/2010
• Local-regional outcomes in triple-negative breast cancer patients who receive breast conservation therapy
  Settle SH, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Buchholz TA, Woodward WA, Yu Tk, Oh JL, Sahin A, Meric-Bernstam F, Hortobagyi GN, Tereffe W, Oncology, 1/1/2010
• Field matching for combined proton, photon and electron post-mastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) for breast cancer
  Amos R, Woodward WA, Proceedings of the 49th International Conference of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group, 1/1/2010
• Population-based analysis of occult primary breast cancer with axillary nodal metastasis
  Walker GV, Smith GL, Allen P, Perkins GH, Oh JL, Woodward WA, Yu TK, Hunt KK, Hoffman K, Strom EA, Buchholz TA, Oncology, 1/1/2010
• Mechanisms of transforming growth factor mediated invasion of inflammatory breast cancer stem cells
  Hall C, Woodward W, Cristofanilli M, Robertson F, Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells and Chromatin: Histones, Nucleosomes, Chromosomes and Genomes Conferences, Singapore, 1/1/2009
• Targeting histone deacetylase to inhibit the aggressive phenotype of human inflammatory breast cancer cells
  Robertson F, Hall C, Bornmann W, Pal A, Peng Z, Woodward W, Cristofanilli M, Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells and Chromatin: Histones, Nucleosomes, Chromosomes and Genomes Conference, Singapore, 1/1/2009
• Cancer initiating cells downregulate microRNAs implicated in the regulation of Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT)
  Debeb BG, Hall CS, Xu W, Ueno N, Reuben JM, Robertson F, Lucci A, Buchholz TA, Hortobagyi GN, Cristofanilli M, Woodward WA, Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research, 1/1/2009
• Locoregional recurrence in young women with node-negative breast cancer treated with mastectomy, axillary lymph node evaluation and adjuvant chemotherapy
  Woodward WA, Beadle BM, Meric-Bernstam F, Strom EA, Tereffe W, Yu TK, Oh JL, Perkins GH, Oncology, 1/1/2009
• Disseminated tumor cells in primary breast cancer: Evaluation of the percentage of breast cancer stem cells in bone marrow aspirates of patients receiving neoadjuvant ...
  Reuben JM, Lee BN, Lucci A, Gao H, Cohen EN, Li C, Krishnamurthy S, Hortobagyi HN, Woodward WA, Cristofanilli M, Proceedings of ASCO, 1/1/2009
• p53 mutation in inflammatory breast cancer cell lines
  Li C, Lee BN, Woodward WA, Ueno NT, Robertson F, Reuben JM, Cristofanilli M, Proceedings of The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 1/1/2009
• The pan HDAC inhibitor suberoylanilide hydrozamic acid targets self renewal of breast cancer stem cells
  Robertson RM, Woodward WA, Bornmann W, Player A, Ye Z, Cristofanilli M, Proceedings of The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 1/1/2009
• Populations of cells exhibiting epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stem cell characteristics can be propagated from an inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) cell line
  Debeb BG, Hall CS, Xu W, Ueno N, Reuben JM, Robertson F, Lucci A, Buchholz TA, Hortobagyi G, Cristofanilli M, Woodward W, Proceedings of The First International Inflammatory Breast Cancer Conference, 1/1/2008
• Targeting histone deacetylase to inhibit the aggressive phenotype of human inflammatory breast cancer cells
  Robertson F, Hall CS, Bornmann W, Pal A, Peng Z, Woodward W, Cristofanilli M, Proceedings of The First International Inflammatory Breast Cancer Conference, 1/1/2008
• Suppression of mesenchymal phenotype in inflammatory breast cancer by EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor erlotinib: A novel approach to suppressing metastasis
  Ueno NT, Kazansky A, LaFortune T, Lucci A, Krishnamurthy S, Hung MC, Hortobagyi GN, Woodward W, Reuben JM, Robertson F, Cristofanilli M, Zhang D., The Proceedings of The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, 1/1/2008
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Lectures

• Predictors and prognosticators for precision radiotherapy 
  Houston, TX - 1/26/2015
• Opportunities for Innovation in Radiation Oncology 
  Nashville, TN - 1/23/2015
• Breast Cancer Summit 
  Puerto Rico - 1/13/2015
• Value of Protons for Breast Cancer 
  Houston, TX - 1/11/2015
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer: A disease of the whole breast 
  Houston, TX - 1/2/2015
• The interplay between local and systemic disease 
  Fort Myers, FL - 1/1/2015
• Overcoming radiation resistance in triple negative breast cancer 
  Houston, TX - 1/1/2015
• Radiotherapy and local control in IBC 
  Philadelphia, PA - 1/24/2014
• Postmastectomy radiation after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, Radiation Oncology Residents 
  Philadelphia, PA - 1/24/2014
• On the road to academic success 
  Philadelphia, PA - 1/24/2014
• Culture of safety 
  Houston, TX - 1/18/2014
• Stems cells and the microenvironment in inflammatory breast cancer 
  Oklahoma City, OK - 1/17/2014
• miRNA Regulation of breast cancer brain metastases 
  Houston, TX - 1/17/2014
• Inflammatory breast cancer; biologic and other special considerations 
  San Francisco, CA - 1/14/2014
• High density lipoprotein and very low density lipoprotein have opposing roles in regulating sensitivity to radiation in vitro and predict for overall survival in patie... 
  San Francisco, CA - 1/14/2014
• Host factors involved in the establishment of the IBC phenotype 
  Antwerp, Belgium - 1/7/2014
• Phase II study of valproic acid to reduce time of indwelling pleural effusion by promoting quiescent stemness 
  Houston, TX - 1/5/2014
• Complementing ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence estimates with the 21-gene recurrence score in early-stage, hormone-receptor positive, Her2-normal, lymph node-negati... 
  Atlanta, GA - 1/25/2013
• Markers and skin toxicity 
  Houston, TX - 1/20/2013
• Human omental-derived Adipose Stem Cells: Modulator of ovarian cancer proliferation, migration, and chemoresistance 
  Miami, FL - 1/20/2013
• Defining IBC and the role of the microenvironment 
  Houston, TX - 1/11/2013
• Radiation therapy, Stem cells and the microenvironment 
  San Antonio, TX - 1/10/2013
• A helpful hodgepodge: Work-life balance, women in science, communications, managing people, and other tidbits 
  Houston, TX - 1/8/2013
• Stem cells and radiation, Radiation Research Society 
  San Juan, Puerto Rico - 1/30/2012
• Novel/cutting edge research using stem cells and their application in medicine 
  San Juan, Puerto Rico - 1/29/2012
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Other

• Breast Cancer Radiotherapy: Treatment Approaches 
  Woodward WA, Professional Oncology Education website
  1/1/2011