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Megan Othus

Researcher Next ID · RN-043135

Researcher · Medicine

Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Accepting doctoral researchersFunding unknown
Works count
510
Citation count
11,869
H-index
56
i10-index
166

Research interests

Medicine
Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments
Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment

Publications

  • Neoadjuvant–Adjuvant or Adjuvant-Only Pembrolizumab in Advanced Melanoma

    New England Journal of Medicine · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2211437

  • Multicenter phase II trial (SWOG S1609, cohort 51) of ipilimumab and nivolumab in metastatic or unresectable angiosarcoma: a substudy of dual anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 blockade in rare tumors (DART)

    Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2021-002990

  • A Phase II Basket Trial of Dual Anti–CTLA-4 and Anti–PD-1 Blockade in Rare Tumors (DART SWOG 1609) in Patients with Nonpancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

    Clinical Cancer Research · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-3356

  • Randomized Phase II Study of Azacitidine Alone or in Combination With Lenalidomide or With Vorinostat in Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia: North American Intergroup Study SWOG S1117

    Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2015.66.2510

  • Minimal residual disease prior to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in acute myeloid leukemia: a meta-analysis

    Haematologica · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2016.159343

  • Pre- and post-transplant quantification of measurable (‘minimal’) residual disease via multiparameter flow cytometry in adult acute myeloid leukemia

    Leukemia · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2016.46

  • US intergroup study of chemotherapy plus dasatinib and allogeneic stem cell transplant in Philadelphia chromosome positive ALL

    Blood Advances · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1182/bloodadvances.2016001495

  • Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Time to Move Toward a Minimal Residual Disease–Based Definition of Complete Remission?

    Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2015.63.3826

  • Addition of gemtuzumab ozogamicin to induction chemotherapy in adult patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomised controlled trials

    The Lancet Oncology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(14)70281-5

  • Resistance prediction in AML: analysis of 4601 patients from MRC/NCRI, HOVON/SAKK, SWOG and MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Leukemia · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.242

  • Significance of FAB subclassification of “acute myeloid leukemia, NOS” in the 2008 WHO classification: analysis of 5848 newly diagnosed patients

    Blood · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2012-10-462440

  • Declining rates of treatment-related mortality in patients with newly diagnosed AML given ‘intense’ induction regimens: a report from SWOG and MD Anderson

    Leukemia · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2013.176

  • Cure Models as a Useful Statistical Tool for Analyzing Survival

    Clinical Cancer Research · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-11-2859

  • Prediction of Early Death After Induction Therapy for Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Pretreatment Risk Scores: A Novel Paradigm for Treatment Assignment

    Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2011.35.7525

  • Prognostic impact of monosomal karyotype in young adult and elderly acute myeloid leukemia: the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) experience

    Blood · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2010-02-270330

  • Parental Decision Making about the HPV Vaccine

    Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-10-0217

  • Stage of adoption of the human papillomavirus vaccine among college women

    Preventive Medicine · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.12.005

  • Dose to Larynx Predicts for Swallowing Complications After Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy

    International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.02.048

Current projects

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