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Eric A. Strom, M.D, F.A.C.R.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1982 Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, MD, Honors Program in Medical Education
1978 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, BS, Honors Program in Medical Education

Postgraduate Training

1/1986-1/1990 Clinical Residency, Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
1/1983-1/1985 Clinical Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY
1/1982-1/1983 Clinical Internship, Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY

Board Certifications

6/1990 American Board of Radiology
1/1985 American Board of Internal Medicine

Experience/Service

Academic Appointments

Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 1/2002-9/2006

Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities

Medical Director, Department of Radiation Oncology, Nellie B. Connally Breast Center, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 3/1999-present

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Beadle BM, Woodward WA, Middleton LP, Tereffe W, Strom EA, Litton JK, Meric-Bernstam F, Theriault RL, Buchholz TA, Perkins GH. The impact of pregnancy on breast cancer outcomes in women </=35 years. Cancer 115(6):1174-1184, 2/2009. e-Pub 2/2009. PMID: 19204903.
2. Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Walters R, Broglio K, Frye DK, Strom EA, Theriault RL, Booser DJ, Valero V, Buzdar AU, Hortobagyi GN. Using Response to Primary Chemotherapy to Select Postoperative Therapy: Long-Term Results from a Prospective Phase II Trial in Locally Advanced Primary Breast Cancer. Clin Breast Cancer 8(6):516-21, 12/2008. PMID: 19073507.
3. Strom EA, Yu TK, Rabinovitch RA, Haffty BG, Halbert FE, Taylor ME, White JR, Cobleigh MA, Edge SB. American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria on Locally Advanced Breast Cancer. ACR Appropriateness Criteria:6-12, 10/2008.
4. Reed VK, Woodward WA, Zhang L, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Oh JL, Yu TK, Bedrosian I, Whitman GJ, Buchholz TA, Dong L. Automatic Segmentation of Whole Breast Using Atlas Approach and Deformable Image Registration. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73(5):1493-500, 9/2008. e-Pub 9/17/2008. PMID: 18804333.
5. Garg AK, Frija EK, Sun TL, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Oh JL, Yu TK, Woodward WA, Tereffe WA, Salehpour M, Buchholz TA. Effects of Variable Placement of Superior Tangential/Supraclavicular Match Line on Dosimetric Coverage of Level III Axilla/Axillary Apex in Patients Treated with Breast and Supraclavicular Radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73(2):370-4, 8/2008. PMID: 18676090.
6. Beadle BM, Woodward WA, Tucker SL, Outlaw ED, Allen PK, Oh JL, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Yu TK, Meric-Bernstam F, Litton JK, Buchholz TA. Ten-Year Recurrence Rates in Young Women With Breast Cancer by Locoregional Treatment Approach. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73(3):734-44, 8/2008. e-Pub 8/15/2008. PMID: 18707822.
7. White JR, Halberg FE, Rabinovitch R, Green S, Haffty BG, Solin LJ, Strom EA, Taylor ME, Edge SB. American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria((R)) on Conservative Surgery and Radiation: Stages I and II Breast Carcinoma. J Am Coll Radiol 5(6):701-13, 6/2008. PMID: 18514949.
8. Reed VK, Cavalcanti JL, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Oh JL, Tereffe W, Yu TK, Yeung H, Whitman GJ, Bedrosian I, Macapinlac HA, Buchholz TA, Woodward WA. Risk of subclinical micrometastatic disease in the supraclavicular nodal bed according to the anatomic distribution in patients with advanced breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71(2):435-40, 6/2008. PMID: 18164831.
9. Bristol IJ, Woodward WA, Strom EA, Cristofanilli M, Domain D, Singletary SE, Perkins GH, Oh JL, Yu TK, Terrefe W, Sahin AA, Hunt KK, Hortobagyi GN, Buchholz TA. Locoregional Treatment Outcomes After Multimodality Management Of Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 72(2):474-84, 4/2008. PMID: 18439768.
10. Smith GL, Smith BD, Giordano SH, Shih YC, Woodward WA, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Yu TK, Buchholz TA. Risk of hypothyroidism in older breast cancer patients treated with radiation. Cancer 112(6):1371-9, 3/2008. PMID: 18213620.
11. Woodward WA, Durand JB, Tucker SL, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Oh J, Arriaga L, Domain D, Buchholz TA. Prospective analysis of carotid artery flow in breast cancer patients treated with supraclavicular irradiation 8 or more years previously: no increase in ipsilateral carotid stenosis after radiation noted. Cancer 112(2):268-73, 1/2008. PMID: 18000801.
12. Buchholz TA, Woodward WA, Duan Z, Fang S, Oh JL, Tereffe W, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Yu TK, Hunt KK, Meric-Bernstam F, Hortobagyi GN, Giordano SH. Radiation Use and Long-Term Survival in Breast Cancer Patients with T1, T2 Primary Tumors and One to Three Positive Axillary Lymph Nodes. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71(4):1022-7, 1/2008. PMID: 18234447.
13. Garg AK, Oh JL, Oswald MJ, Huang E, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Woodward WA, Yu TK, Tereffe W, Meric-Bernstam F, Hahn K, Buchholz TA. Effect of postmastectomy radiotherapy in patients <35 years old with stage II-III breast cancer treated with doxorubicin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy and mastectomy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 69(5):1478-83, 12/2007. PMID: 17855016.
14. Oh JL, Nguyen G, Whitman GJ, Hunt KK, Yu TK, Woodward WA, Tereffe W, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Buchholz TA. Placement of radiopaque clips for tumor localization in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy and breast conservation therapy. Cancer 110(11):2420-7, 12/2007. PMID: 17941034.
15. Kronowitz SJ, Hunt KK, Kuerer HM, Strom EA, Buchholz TA, Ensor JE, Koutz CA, Robb GL. Practical guidelines for repair of partial mastectomy defects using the breast reduction technique in patients undergoing breast conservation therapy. Plast Reconstr Surg 120(7):1755-68, 12/2007. PMID: 18090737.
16. Kronowitz SJ, Hunt KK, Kuerer HM, Strom EA, Buchholz TA, Ensor JE, Koutz CA, Robb GL. Practical guidelines for the breast reduction technique for repair of partial mastectomy defects in patients underoing breast conservation therapy. Plast Reconstr Surg 120(7):1755-1768, 12/2007.
17. Liengsawangwong R, Yu TK, Sun TL, Erasmus JJ, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Oh JL, Woodward WA, Strom EA, Salephour M, Buchholz TA. Treatment optimization using computed tomography-delineated targets should be used for supraclavicular irradiation for breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 69(3):711-5, 11/2007. PMID: 17889264.
18. McGuire SE, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Huang EH, Tucker SL, Kau SW, Yu TK, Strom EA, Oh JL, Woodward WA, Tereffe W, Hunt KK, Kuerer HM, Sahin AA, Hortobagyi GN, Buchholz TA. Postmastectomy radiation improves the outcome of patients with locally advanced breast cancer who achieve a pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 68(4):1004-9, 7/2007. PMID: 17418973.
19. Borghero YO, Salehpour M, McNeese MD, Stovall M, Smith SA, Johnson J, Perkins GH, Strom EA, Oh JL, Kirsner SM, Woodward WA, Yu TK, Buchholz TA. Multileaf field-in-field forward-planned intensity-modulated dose compensation for whole-breast irradiation is associated with reduced contralateral breast dose: a phantom model comparison. Radiother Oncol 82(3):324-8, 3/2007. PMID: 17157944.
20. Huang EH, Strom EA, Valero V, Fornage B, Perkins GH, Oh JL, Yu TK, Tereffe W, Woodward WA, Hunt KK, Meric-Bernstam F, Sahin AA, Bedrosian I, Hortobagyi GN, Buchholz TA. Locoregional treatment outcomes for breast cancer patients with ipsilateral supraclavicular metastases at diagnosis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 67(2):490-6, 2/2007. PMID: 17236970.
21. Woodward WA, Buchholz TA, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Middleton L, Hortobagyi GN, McNeese MD, Huang Eh, Tucker SL, Hahn KM. African-American race is associated with a poorer overall survival rate for breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy and doxorubicin-based chemotherapy. Cancer 107(11):2662-68, 12/2006.
22. Oh JL, Dryden MJ, Woodward WA, Yu TK, Tereffe W, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Middleton L, Hunt KK. Giordano SH, Oswald MJ, Domain D, Buchholz TA. Local-regional control of clinically diagnosed multifocal or multicentric breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and local-regional therapy. J Clin Oncol 24(31):4971-75, 11/2006.
23. Hanrahan EO, Broglio K, Frye D, Buzdar AU, Theriault RL, Valero V, Booser DJ, Singletary SE, Strom EA, Gajewski JL, Champlin RE, Hortobagyi GN. Randomized trial of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell support for high-risk primary breast carcinoma: follow-up at 12 years. Cancer 106:2327-36, 6/2006. PMID: 16639731.
24. Huang EH, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Oh JL, chen AM, Meric-Bernstam F, Hunt KK, Shain AA, Hortobagyi GN, Buchholz TA. Comparison of risk of local-regional recurrence after mastectomy or breast conservation therapy for patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiation stratified according to a prognostic index score. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 66(2):352-57, 2006.
25. Kassas B, Mourtada F, Horton JL, Lane RG, Buchholz TA, Strom EA. Dose modification factors for 192lr high-dose-rate irradiation using Monte Carlo simulations. J Appl Clin Med Phys 7(3):28-34, 2006.
26. Buchholz TA, Strom EA, Oswald MJ, Perkins GH, Oh J, domain D, Yu TK, Woodward WA, Tereffe W, Singletary SE, Thomas E, Buzdar AU, Hortobagyi GN, McNeese MD. Fifteen-year results of a randomized prospective trial comparing hyperfractionated chest wall radiation versus once-daily chest wall radiation after chemotherapy and mastectomy for patients with locally advanced non-inflammatory breast cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65(4):1155-60, 2006.
27. Hymes SR, Strom E, Fife C. Radiation dermatitis: Clinical presentation, pathyphysiology, and treatment 2006. J Am Acad Dermatol 54(1):28-46, 2006.
28. Motwani SB, Strom EA, Schechter NR, Butler CD, Lee GK, Langstein HN, Kronowitz SJ, Meric-Bernstam F, Ibrahim NK, Buchholz TA. The impact of immediate breast reconstruction on the technical delivery of postmastectomy radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 66(1):76-82, 2006.
29. Oh JL, Bonnen M, Outlaw ED, Schechter NR, Perkins GH, Strom EA, Babiera G, Oswald MJ, Allen PK, Thames HD, Buchholz TA. The impact of young age on locoregional recurrence after Doxorubicin-based breast conservation therapy in patients 40 years old or younger. How young is "young?". Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65(5):1345-52, 2006.
30. Solin LJ, Fourquet A, Vicini FA, Taylor M, Haffty B, Strom EA, Wai E, Pierce LJ, Marks LB, Bartelink H, Campana F, McNeese MD, Jhingran A, Olivotto IA, Bijker N, Hwang WT. Salvage treatment for local or local-regional recurrence after initial breast conservation treatment with radiation for ductal carcinoma in situ. Eur J Cancer 41:1715-23, 2005.
31. Kuban, DA, Dong L, Cheung R, Strom EA, de Crevoisier R. Ultrasound-based Localization. Semin Radiat Oncol 15(3):108-191, 2005.

Last updated: 9/1/2009