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Nina Sanford, M.D.

Nina Sanford, M.D.

Titles and Appointments

Chief of Gastrointestinal Radiation Oncology Service

Associate Professor

Endowed Title
Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care
Schools
Medical School
Departments
Radiation Oncology

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  • Education
    Medical School
    Harvard Medical School (2013)
    Internship
    Brigham and Women's Hospital (2014), Internal Medicine
    Residency
    Harvard/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital (2018), Radiation Oncology
  • Publications
    Regional inequities in colon cancer surgical care: Patterns of treatment delay across U.S. facilities
    Doshi RH, Jain B, Tanksali R, Dhondup T, Bhat S, Sanford NN, Lam MB, Dee EC Public Health 2026 Mar 252
    Generating the Evidence to Support Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Evolution: Challenges and a Roadmap for Progress
    Hanna TP, Palma DA, Booth CM, Sanford NN, Tree A, Yom SS International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 2026
    A Real-World, Propensity-Matched Analysis of Second-Line FOLFIRI-Ramucirumab Versus Ramucirumab-Paclitaxel in Patients With Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers
    Hyak JM, Ruan P, Jones AL, Verma N, Chung VL, Grewal US, Vadehra D, Hornstein N, Wang SC, Porembka MR, Badiyan S, Sanford NN, Kazmi SM, Brown TJ American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials 2025 Dec Publish Ahead of Print
    Exploring radiomic and topological features to evaluate treatment response in rectal cancer
    Zhang H, Liu J, Rajamohan N, Sanford NN, Khatri G, Rodriguez AP, Rajaram S, Jiang S, Timmerman R, Aguilera T, Peng H Physics in medicine and biology 2025 Nov 70
    Treat the Tumor, Spare the Esophagus: The Case for Organ Preservation in Locally Advanced Esophageal/Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer
    Grewal US, Sanford NN, Brown TJ Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2025 Oct 43 3245-3248
    Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Survival among Patients with Cholangiocarcinoma in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
    Shubin AD, Leff PJ, Tadros MM, Hsieh ML, Hsiehchen D, Vagefi PA, Wang JY, Sapisochin G, Yopp AC, Sanford NN, Yang JD, Singal AG, Patel MS, Rich NE Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2025 Oct 34 1776-1786
    Definitive Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer: Historical Review, Current State and Future Directions
    Kumar AR, Sanford NN Seminars in Radiation Oncology 2025 Oct 35 510-513
    Controversies in upper gastrointestinal cancers—the role of radiotherapy in borderline resectable pancreatic cancer
    Dekervel J, Sanford N, Groot Koerkamp B ESMO Gastrointestinal Oncology 2025 Sep 9
    Presurgical Ablative Radiation Is Associated with Local Control and Immune Response in Pancreatic Cancer
    Leung PQ, Elghonaimy EA, Elamir AM, Wachsmann M, Zhang S, Barrows N, Notgrass H, Johnson E, Lewis CM, von Ebers R, Hamilton C, Castillo-Flores S, Nunez-Rocha RE, Josephson G, Chi Z, Al Mutar S, Polanco PM, Sanford NN, Ali Kazmi SM, Porembka MR, Hsiehchen D, Yopp AC, Mansour JC, Beg MS, Zeh HJ, Aguilera TA Clinical Cancer Research 2025 Jul 31 2777-2792
    Overall Survival and Quality-of-Life Superiority in Modern Phase 3 Oncology Trials A Meta-Epidemiological Analysis
    Sherry AD, Miller AM, Parlapalli JP, Kupferman GS, Beck EJ, McDonald J, Kouzy R, Jaoude JA, Lin TA, Sanford NN, Chino F, Gyawali B, Booth C, Msaouel P, Ludmir EB JAMA Oncology 2025 Jul 11 718-724
  • Honors & Awards
    • Dedman Family Scholar in Cancer Care
      (2019)