Robert C. Bast, M.D.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Bast RC, Han CY, Lu Z, Lu KH. Next steps in the early detection of ovarian cancer. Commun Med (Lond) 1:36, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34676377.
2. Li YC, Lytle NK, Gammon ST, Wang L, Hayes TK, Sutton MN, Bast RC, Der CJ, Piwnica-Worms D, McCormick F, Wahl GM. Analysis of RAS protein in living cells reveals a mechanism for pan-RAS depletion by membrane-targeted RAS binders. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117(22):12121-12130, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32424096.
3. Yang WL, Lu Z, Guo J, Fellman BM, Ning J, Lu KH, Menon U, Kobayashi M, Hanash SM, Celestino J, Skates SJ, Bast RC. Human epididymis protein 4 antigen-autoantibody complexes complement cancer antigen 125 for detecting early-stage ovarian cancer. Cancer 126(4):725-736, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31714597.
4. Santiago-O'Farrill JM, Weroha SJ, Hou X, Oberg AL, Heinzen EP, Maurer MJ, Pang L, Rask P, Amaravadi RK, Becker SE, Romero I, Rubio MJ, Matias-Guiu X, Santacana M, Llombart-Cussac A, Poveda A, Lu Z, Bast RC. Poly(adenosine diphosphate ribose) polymerase inhibitors induce autophagy-mediated drug resistance in ovarian cancer cells, xenografts, and patient-derived xenograft models. Cancer 126(4):894-907, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31714594.
5. Kobayashi M, Katayama H, Irajizad E, Vykoukal JV, Fahrmann JF, Kundnani DL, Yu CY, Cai Y, Hsiao FC, Yang WL, Lu Z, Celestino J, Long JP, Do KA, Lu KH, Ladd JJ, Urban N, Bast RC, Hanash SM. Proteome Profiling Uncovers an Autoimmune Response Signature That Reflects Ovarian Cancer Pathogenesis. Cancers (Basel) 12(2):485, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32092936.
6. Sutton MN, Lu Z, Li YC, Zhou Y, Huang T, Reger AS, Hurwitz AM, Palzkill T, Logsdon C, Liang X, Gray JW, Nan X, Hancock J, Wahl GM, Bast RC. DIRAS3 (ARHI) blocks RAS/MAPK signaling by binding directly to Ras and disrupting Ras clusters. Cell Rep 29(11):3448-3459.e6, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31825828.
7. Yang H, Shu Z, Jiang Y, Mao W, Pang L, Redwood A, Jeter-Jones SL, Jennings NB, Ornelas A, Zhou J, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Bartholomeusz G, Iles LR, Zacharias NM, Millward SW, Lopez-Berestein G, Le XF, Ahmed AA, Piwnica-Worms H, Sood AK, Bast RC, Lu Z. 6-Phosphofructo-2-Kinase/Fructose-2,6-Biphosphatase-2 Regulates TP53-Dependent Paclitaxel Sensitivity in Ovarian and Breast Cancers. Clin Cancer Res 25(18):5702-5716, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31391192.
8. Andre F, Ismaila N, Henry NL, Somerfield MR, Bast RC, Barlow W, Collyar DE, Hammond ME, Kuderer NM, Liu MC, Van Poznak C, Wolff AC, Stearns V. Use of Biomarkers to Guide Decisions on Adjuvant Systemic Therapy for Women With Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancer: ASCO Clinical Practice Guideline Update-Integration of Results from TAILORx. J Clin Oncol 37(22):JCO1900945, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31150316.
9. Nebgen DR, Lu KH, Bast RC. Novel approaches to ovarian cancer screening. Curr Oncol Rep 21(8):75, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31346778.
10. Bast RC, Matulonis UA, Sood AK, Ahmed AA, Amobi AE, Balkwill FR, Wielgos-Bonvallet M, Bowtell DDL, Brenton JD, Brugge JS, Coleman RL, Draetta GF, Doberstein K, Drapkin RI, Eckert MA, Edwards RP, Elias KM, Ennis D, Futreal A, Gershenson DM, Greenberg RA, Huntsman DG, Ji JXY, Kohn EC, Iavarone C, Lengyel ER, Levine DA, Lord CJ, Lu Z, Mills GB, Modugno F, Nelson BH, Odunsi K, Pilsworth JA, Rottapel RK, Powell DJ, Shen L, Shih IM, Spriggs DR, Walton J, Zhang K, Zhang R, Zou L. Critical Questions in Ovarian Cancer Research and Treatment: Report of an American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference. Cancer 125(12):1963-1972, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30835824.
11. Simmons AR, Fourkala EO, Gentry-Maharaj A, Ryan A, Sutton MN, Baggerly K, Zheng H, Lu KH, Jacobs I, Skates S, Menon U, Bast RC. Complementary longitudinal serum biomarkers to CA125 for early detection of ovarian cancer. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 12(6):391-400, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30967390.
12. Mao W, Peters HL, Sutton MN, Orozco AF, Pang L, Yang H, Lu Z, Bast RC. The role of vascular endothelial growth factor, interleukin 8, and insulinlike growth factor in sustaining autophagic DIRAS3-induced dormant ovarian cancer xenografts. Cancer 125(8):1267-1280, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30620384.
13. Sutton MN, Huang GY, Liang X, Sharma R, Reger AS, Mao W, Pang L, Rask PJ, Lee K, Gray JP, Hurwitz AM, Palzkill T, Millward SW, Kim C, Lu Z, Bast RC. DIRAS3-Derived Peptide Inhibits Autophagy in Ovarian Cancer Cells by Binding to Beclin1. Cancers (Basel) 11(4):pii: E557, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31003488.
14. Sutton MN, Huang GY, Zhou J, Mao W, Langley R, Lu Z, Bast RC. Amino Acid Deprivation-Induced Autophagy Requires Upregulation of DIRAS3 through Reduction of E2F1 and E2F4 Transcriptional Repression. Cancers (Basel) 11(5):pii: E603, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31052266.
15. Guo J, Yang WL, Pak D, Celestino J, Lu KH, Ning J, Lokshin AE, Cheng Z, Lu Z, Bast RC. Osteopontin, Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor and Anti-Interleukin-8 Autoantibodies Complement CA125 for Detection of Early Stage Ovarian Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 11(5):pii: E596, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31035430.
16. Elias KM, Guo J, Bast RC. Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 32(6):903-914, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30390764.
17. Kim J, Park EY, Kim O, Schilder JM, Coffey DM, Cho CH, Bast RC. Cell Origins of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 10(11), 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30424539.
18. Yang H, Mao W, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Mangala LS, Bartholomeusz G, Iles LR, Jennings NB, Ahmed AA, Sood AK, Lopez-Berestein G, Lu Z, Bast RC. Paclitaxel Sensitivity of Ovarian Cancer can be enhanced by knocking down Pairs of Kinases that regulate MAP4 Phosphorylation and Microtubule Stability. Clin Cancer Res 24(20):5072-5084, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30084832.
19. Mathieu KB, Bedi DG, Thrower SL, Qayyum A, Bast RC. Screening for ovarian cancer: imaging challenges and opportunities for improvement. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 51(3):293-303, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28639753.
20. Zheng Y, Sethi R, Mangala LS, Taylor C, Goldsmith J, Wang M, Masuda K, Karaminejadranjbar M, Mannion D, Miranda F, Herrero-Gonzalez S, Hellner K, Chen F, Alsaadi A, Albukhari A, Fotso DC, Yau C, Jiang D, Pradeep S, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Knapp S, Gray NS, Campo L, Myers KA, Dhar S, Ferguson D, Bast RC, Sood AK, von Delft F, Ahmed AA. Tuning microtubule dynamics to enhance cancer therapy by modulating FER-mediated CRMP2 phosphorylation. Nat Commun 9(1):476, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29396402.
21. Sutton MN, Yang H, Huang GY, Fu C, Pontikos M, Wang Y, Mao W, Pang L, Yang M, Liu J, Parker-Thornburg J, Lu Z, Bast RC. RAS-related GTPases DIRAS1 and DIRAS2 induce autophagic cancer cell death and are required for autophagy in murine ovarian cancer cells. Autophagy 14(4):637-53, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29368982.
22. Yang WL, Gentry-Maharaj A, Simmons A, Ryan A, Fourkala EO, Lu Z, Baggerly KA, Zhao Y, Lu KH, Bowtell D, Jacobs I, Skates SJ, He WW, Menon U, Bast RC, AOCS Study Group. Elevation of TP53 Autoantibody Prior to CA125 in Preclinical Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 23(19):5912-5922, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28637689.
23. Krop I, Ismaila N, Andre F, Bast RC, Barlow W, Collyar DE, Hammond ME, Kuderer NM, Liu MC, Mennel RG, Van Poznak C, Wolff AC, Stearns V. Use of Biomarkers to Guide Decisions on Adjuvant Systemic Therapy for Women With Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Focused Update. J Clin Oncol 35(24):2838-2847, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28692382.
24. Zhou J, Alfraidi A, Zhang S, Santiago-O'Farrill JM, Yerramreddy Reddy VK, Alsaadi A, Ahmed AA, Yang H, Liu J, Mao W, Wang Y, Takemori H, Vankayalapati H, Lu Z, Bast RC. A novel compound ARN-3236 inhibits Salt Inducible Kinase 2 and sensitizes ovarian cancer cell lines and xenografts to paclitaxel. Clin Cancer Res 23(8):1945-1954, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27678456.
25. Hellner K, Miranda F, Fotso Chedom D, Herrero-Gonzalez S, Hayden DM, Tearle R, Artibani M, KaramiNejadRanjbar M, Williams R, Gaitskell K, Elorbany S, Xu R, Laios A, Buiga P, Ahmed K, Dhar S, Zhang RY, Campo L, Myers KA, Lozano M, Ruiz-Miró M, Gatius S, Mota A, Moreno-Bueno G, Matias-Guiu X, Benítez J, Witty L, McVean G, Leedham S, Tomlinson I, Drmanac R, Cazier JB, Klein R, Dunne K, Bast RC, Kennedy SH, Hassan B, Lise S, Garcia MJ, Peters BA, Yau C, Sauka-Spengler T, Ahmed AA. Premalignant SOX2 overexpression in the fallopian tubes of ovarian cancer patients: Discovery and validation studies. EBioMedicine 10:137-49, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27492892.
26. Miranda F, Mannion D, Liu S, Zheng Y, Mangala LS, Redondo C, Herrero-Gonzalez S, Xu R, Taylor C, Chedom DF, Karaminejadranjbar M, Albukhari A, Jiang D, Pradeep S, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Salah E, Abdul Azeez KR, Elkins JM, Campo L, Myers KA, Klotz D, Bivona S, Dhar S, Bast RC, Saya H, Choi HG, Gray NS, Fischer R, Kessler BM, Yau C, Sood AK, Motohara T, Knapp S, Ahmed AA. Salt-Inducible Kinase 2 Couples Ovarian Cancer Cell Metabolism with Survival at the Adipocyte-Rich Metastatic Niche. Cancer Cell 30(2):273-289, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27478041.
27. Simmons AR, Clarke CH, Badgwell DB, Lu Z, Sokoll LJ, Lu KH, Zhang Z, Bast RC, Skates SJ. Validation of a biomarker panel and longitudinal biomarker performance for early detection of ovarian cancer. Int J Gynecol Cancer 26(6):1070-7, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27206285.
28. Harris LN, Ismaila N, McShane LM, Andre F, Collyar DE, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Hammond EH, Kuderer NM, Liu MC, Mennel RG, Van Poznak C, Bast RC, Hayes DF, American Society of Clinical Oncology. Use of Biomarkers to Guide Decisions on Adjuvant Systemic Therapy for Women with Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline. J Clin Oncol 34(10):1134-50, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26858339.
29. Redis RS, Vela LE, Lu W, Ferreira de Oliveira J, Ivan C, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Adamoski D, Pasculli B, Taguchi A, Chen Y, Fernandez AF, Valledor L, Van Roosbroeck K, Chang S, Shah M, Kinnebrew G, Han L, Atlasi Y, Cheung LH, Huang GY, Monroig P, Ramirez MS, Catela Ivkovic T, Van L, Ling H, Gafà R, Kapitanovic S, Lanza G, Bankson JA, Huang P, Lai SY, Bast RC, Rosenblum MG, Radovich M, Ivan M, Bartholomeusz G, Liang H, Fraga MF, Widger WR, Hanash S, Berindan-Neagoe I, Lopez-Berestein G, Ambrosio ALB, Gomes Dias SM, Calin GA. Allele-specific reprogramming of cancer metabolism by the long non-coding RNA, CCAT2. Mol Cell 61(4):520-34, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26853146.
30. Yang H, Das P, Yu Y, Mao W, Wang Y, Baggerly K, Wang Y, Marquez RT, Bedi A, Liu J, Fishman D, Lu Z, Bast RC. NDN is an imprinted tumor suppressor gene that is downregulated in ovarian cancers through genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Oncotarget 7(3):3018-32, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26689988.
31. Klionsky DJ, Abdelmohsen K, Abe A, Abedin MJ, Abeliovich H, Acevedo Arozena A, Adachi H, Adams CM, Adams PD, Adeli K, Adhihetty PJ, Adler SG, Agam G, Agarwal R, Aghi MK, Agnello M, Agostinis P, Aguilar PV, Aguirre-Ghiso J, Airoldi EM, Ait-Si-Ali S, Akematsu T, Akporiaye ET, Al-Rubeai M, Albaiceta GM, Albanese C, Albani D, Albert ML, Aldudo J, Algül H, Alirezaei M, Alloza I, Almasan A, Almonte-Beceril M, Alnemri ES, Alonso C, Altan-Bonnet N, Altieri DC, Alvarez S, Alvarez-Erviti L, Alves S, Amadoro G, Amano A, Amantini C, Ambrosio S, Amelio I, Amer AO, Amessou M, Amon A, An Z, Anania FA, Andersen SU, Andley UP, Andreadi CK, Andrieu-Abadie N, Anel A, Ann DK, Anoopkumar-Dukie S, Antonioli M, Aoki H, Apostolova N, Aquila S, Aquilano K, Araki K, Arama E, Aranda A, Araya J, Arcaro A, Arias E, Arimoto H, Ariosa AR, Armstrong JL, Arnould T, Arsov I, Asanuma K, Askanas V, Asselin E, Atarashi R, Atherton SS, Atkin JD, Attardi LD, Auberger P, Auburger G, Aurelian L, Autelli R, Avagliano L, Avantaggiati ML, Avrahami L, Awale S, Azad N, Bachetti T, Backer JM, Bae DH, Bae JS, Bae ON, Bae SH, Baehrecke EH, Baek SH, Baghdiguian S, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bai H, Bai J, Bai XY, Bailly Y, Balaji KN, Balduini W, Ballabio A, Balzan R, Banerjee R, Bánhegyi G, Bao H, Barbeau B, Barrachina MD, Barreiro E, Bartel B, Bartolomé A, Bassham DC, Bassi MT, Bast RC, Basu A, Batista MT, Batoko H, Battino M, Bauckman K, Baumgarner BL, Bayer KU, Beale R, Beaulieu JF, Beck GR, Becker C, Beckham JD, Bédard PA, Bednarski PJ, Begley TJ, Behl C, Behrends C, Behrens GM, Behrns KE, Bejarano E, Belaid A, Belleudi F, Bénard G, Berchem G, Bergamaschi D, Bergami M, Berkhout B, Berliocchi L, Bernard A, Bernard M, Bernassola F, Bertolotti A, Bess AS, Besteiro S, Bettuzzi S, Bhalla S, Bhattacharyya S, Bhutia SK, Biagosch C, Bianchi MW, Biard-Piechaczyk M, Billes V, Bincoletto C, Bingol B, Bird SW, Bitoun M, Bjedov I, Blackstone C, Blanc L, Blanco GA, Blomhoff HK, Boada-Romero E, Böckler S, Boes M, Boesze-Battaglia . Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition). Autophagy 12(1):1-222, 2016. PMID: 26799652.
32. Bowtell DD, Böhm S, Ahmed AA, Aspuria PJ, Bast RC, Beral V, Berek JS, Birrer MJ, Blagden S, Bookman MA, Brenton JD, Chiappinelli KB, Martins FC, Coukos G, Drapkin R, Edmondson R, Fotopoulou C, Gabra H, Galon J, Gourley C, Heong V, Huntsman DG, Iwanicki M, Karlan BY, Kaye A, Lengyel E, Levine DA, Lu KH, McNeish IA, Menon U, Narod SA, Nelson BH, Nephew KP, Pharoah P, Powell DJ, Ramos P, Romero IL, Scott CL, Sood AK, Stronach EA, Balkwill FR. Rethinking ovarian cancer II: reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer. Nat Rev Cancer 15(11):668-79, 2015. PMID: 26493647.
33. Van Poznak C, Somerfield MR, Bast RC, Cristofanilli M, Goetz MP, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Hicks DG, Hill EG, Liu MC, Lucas W, Mayer IA, Mennel RG, Symmans WF, Hayes DF, Harris LN. Use of Biomarkers to Guide Decisions on Systemic Therapy for Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline. J Clin Oncol 33(24):2695-704, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26195705.
34. Washington MN, Suh G, Orozco AF, Sutton MN, Yang H, Wang Y, Mao W, Millward S, Ornelas A, Atkinson N, Liao W, Bast RC, Lu Z. ARHI (DIRAS3)-mediated autophagy-associated cell death enhances chemosensitivity to cisplatin in ovarian cancer cell lines and xenografts. Cell Death Dis 6:e1836, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26247722.
35. Zhang S, Lu Z, Unruh AK, Ivan C, Baggerly KA, Calin GA, Li Z, Bast RC, Le XF. Clinically relevant microRNAs in ovarian cancer. Mol Cancer Res 13(3):393-401, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25304686.
36. Pickering CR, Bast RC, Keyomarsi K. How will we recruit, train, and retain physicians and scientists to conduct translational cancer research?. Cancer 121(6):806-16, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25355050.
37. Zhang S, Lu Z, Mao W, Ahmed AA, Yang H, Zhou J, Jennings N, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Lopez-Berestein G, Miranda R, Qiao W, Baladandayuthapani V, Li Z, Sood AK, Liu J, Le XF, Bast RC. CDK5 regulates paclitaxel sensitivity in ovarian cancer cells by modulating AKT activation, p21Cip1- and p27Kip1-mediated G1 cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. PLoS One 10(7):e0131833, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26146988.
38. Lu Z, Yang H, Sutton MN, Yang M, Clarke CH, Liao WS, Bast RC. ARHI (DIRAS3) induces autophagy in ovarian cancer cells by downregulating the epidermal growth factor receptor, inhibiting PI3K and Ras/MAP signaling and activating the FOXo3a-mediated induction of Rab7. Cell Death Differ 21(8):1275-89, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24769729.
39. Lu Z, Baquero MT, Yang H, Yang M, Reger AS, Kim C, Levine DA, Clarke CH, Liao WS, Bast RC. DIRAS3 regulates the autophagosome initiation complex in dormant ovarian cancer cells. Autophagy 10(6):1071-1092, 2014. PMID: 24879154.
40. Lu KH, Skates S, Hernandez MA, Bedi D, Bevers T, Leeds L, Moore R, Granai C, Harris S, Newland W, Adeyinka O, Geffen J, Deavers MT, Sun CC, Horick N, Fritsche H, Bast RC. A 2-stage ovarian cancer screening strategy using the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm (ROCA) identifies early-stage incident cancers and demonstrates high positive predictive value. Cancer 119(19):3454-61, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23983047.
41. Fu S, Li Y, Huang J, Liu T, Hong Z, Chen A, Bast RC, Kavanagh JJ, Gershenson DM, Sood AK, Hu W. Aurora kinase inhibitor VE 465 synergistically enhances cytotoxicity of carboplatin in ovarian cancer cells through induction of apoptosis and downregulation of histone 3. Cancer Biol Ther 13(11):1034-41, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22895067.
42. Russell P, Hennessy BT, Li J, Carey MS, Bast RC, Freeman T, Venkitaraman AR. Cyclin G1 regulates the outcome of taxane-induced mitotic checkpoint arrest. Oncogene 31(19):2450-60, 2012. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22056875.
43. Le XF, Mao W, He G, Claret FX, Xia W, Ahmed AA, Hung MC, Siddik ZH, Bast RC. The Role of p27Kip1 in Dasatinib-Enhanced Paclitaxel Cytotoxicity in Human Ovarian Cancer Cells. J Natl Cancer Inst 103(18):1403-22, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21813412.
44. Ahmed AA, Lu Z, Jennings NB, Etemadmoghadam D, Capalbo L, Jacamo RO, Barbosa-Morais N, Le XF, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Vivas-Mejia P, Lopez-Berestein G, Grandjean G, Bartholomeusz G, Liao W, Andreeff M, Bowtell D, Glover DM, Sood AK, Bast RC. SIK2 is a centrosome kinase required for bipolar mitotic spindle formation that provides a potential target for therapy in ovarian cancer. Cancer Cell 18(2):109-121, 2010. PMID: 20708153.
45. Yurkovetsky Z, Skates S, Lomakin A, Nolen B, Pulsipher T, Modugno F, Marks J, Godwin A, Gorelik E, Jacobs I, Menon U, Lu K, Badgwell D, Bast RC, Lokshin AE. Development of a multimarker assay for early detection of ovarian cancer. J Clin Oncol 28(13):2159-66, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20368574.
46. Moore RG, MacLaughlan S, Bast RC. Current state of biomarker development for clinical application in epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 116(2):240-5, 2010. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19879639.
47. Kurzrock R, Pilat S, Bartolazzi M, Sanders D, Van Wart Hood J, Tucker SD, Webster K, Mallamaci MA, Strand S, Babcock E, Bast RC. Project zero delay: A process for accelerating the activation of cancer clinical trials. J Clin Oncol 27(26):4433-40, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19652061.
48. Samanta AK, Huang HJ, Le XF, Mao W, Lu KH, Bast RC, Liao WS. MEKK3 expression correlates with nuclear factor kappa B activity and with expression of antiapoptotic genes in serous ovarian carcinoma. Cancer 115(17):3897-908, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19517469.
49. Bast RC, Hennessy B, Mills GB. The Biology of Ovarian Cancer: New Opportunities for Translation. Nat Rev Cancer 9(6):415-28, 2009. PMID: 19461667.
50. Moore RG, McMeekin DS, Brown AK, DiSilvestro P, Miller MC, Allard WJ, Gajewski W, Kurman R, Bast RC, Skates SJ. A novel multiple marker bioassay utilizing HE4 and CA125 for the prediction of ovarian cancer in patients with a pelvic mass. Gynecol Oncol 112(1):40-46, 2009. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18851871.
51. Anderson NS, Bermudez Y, Badgwell D, Chen R, Nicosia SV, Bast RC, Kruk PA. Urinary levels of Bcl-2 are elevated in ovarian cancer patients. Gynecol Oncol 112(1):60-67, 2009. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 19007973.
52. Cheon DJ, Wang Y, Deng JM, Lu Z, Xiao L, Chen CM, Bast RC, Behringer RR. CA125/MUC16 is dispensable for mouse development and reproduction. PLoS One 4(3):e4675, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19262696.
53. Wang Y, Cheon DJ, Lu Z, Cunningham SL, Chen CM, Luo RZ, Xing D, Orsulic S, Bast RC, Behringer RR. MUC16 expression during embryogenesis, in adult tissues, and ovarian cancer in the mouse. Differentiation 76(10):1081-1092, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18637025.
54. Le XF, Mao W, Lu C, Thornton A, Heymach JV, Sood AK, Bast RC. Specific blockade of VEGF and HER2 pathways results in greater growth inhibition of breast cancer xenografts that overexpress HER2. Cell Cycle 7(23):3747-58, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 19029832.
55. Lu Z, Luo RZ, Lu Y, Zhang X, Yu Q, Khare S, Kondo S, Kondo Y, Yu Y, Mills GB, Liao WS, Bast RC. The tumor suppressor gene ARHI regulates autophagy and tumor dormancy in human ovarian cancer cells. J Clin Invest 118(12):3917-29, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 19033662.
56. Feng W, Marquez RT, Lu Z, Liu J, Lu KH, Issa JP, Fishman DM, Yu Y, Bast RC. Imprinted tumor suppressor genes ARHI and PEG3 are the most frequently down-regulated in human ovarian cancers by loss of heterozygosity and promoter methylation. Cancer 112(7):1489-502, 2008. PMID: 18286529.
57. Moore RG, Brown AK, Miller MC, Skates S, Allard WJ, Verch T, Steinhoff M, Messerlian G, DiSilvestro P, Granai CO, Bast RC. The use of multiple novel tumor biomarkers for the detection of ovarian carcinoma in patients with a pelvic mass. Gynecol Oncol 108(2):402-408, 2008. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 18061248.
58. Zhang Z, Yu Y, Xu F, Berchuck A, van Haaften-Day C, Havrilesky LJ, de Bruijn HW, van der Zee AG, Woolas RP, Jacobs IJ, Skates S, Chan DW, Bast RC. Combining multiple serum tumor markers improves detection of stage I epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 107(3):526-531, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17920110.
59. Bast RC, Thigpen JT, Arbuck SG, Basen-Engquist K, Burke LB, Freedman R, Horning SJ, Ozols R, Rustin GJ, Spriggs D, Wenzel LB, Pazdur R. Clinical trial endpoints in ovarian cancer: Report of an FDA/ASCO/AACR Public Workshop. Gynecol Oncol 107(2):173-6, 2007. PMID: 17950384.
60. Le XF, Arachchige-Don AS, Mao W, Horne MC, Bast RC. Roles of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, c-jun NH2-terminal kinase, phosphoinositide 3-kinase, and p70 S6 kinase pathways in regulation of cyclin G2 expression in human breast cancer cells. Mol Cancer Ther 6(11):2843-57, 2007. PMID: 18025271.
61. Harris L, Fritsche H, Mennel R, Norton L, Ravdin P, Taube S, Somerfield MR, Hayes DF, Bast RC, American Society of Clinical Oncology. American Society of Clinical Oncology 2007 update of recommendations for the use of tumor markers in breast cancer. J Clin Oncol 25(33):5287-312, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17954709.
62. Badgwell D, Lu Z, Cole L, Fritsche H, Atkinson EN, Somers E, Allard J, Moore RG, Lu KH, Bast RC. Urinary mesothelin provides greater sensitivity for early stage ovarian cancer than serum mesothelin, urinary hCG free beta subunit and urinary hCG beta core fragment. Gynecol Oncol 106(3):490-497, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17532030.
63. Badgwell D, Bast RC. Early detection of ovarian cancer. Dis Markers 23(5-6):397-410, 2007. PMID: 18057523.
64. Locker GY, Hamilton S, Harris J, Jessup JM, Kemeny N, Macdonald JS, Somerfield MR, Hayes DF, Bast RC, ASCO. ASCO 2006 update of recommendations for the use of tumor markers in gastrointestinal cancer. J Clin Oncol 24(33):5313-5327, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 17060676.
65. Yang G, Rosen DG, Zhang Z, Bast RC, Mills GB, Colacino JA, Mercado-Uribe I, Liu J. The chemokine growth-regulated oncogene 1 (Gro-1) links RAS signaling to the senescence of stromal fibroblasts and ovarian tumorigenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103(44):16472-16477, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 17060621.
66. Le XF, Bedrosian I, Mao W, Murray M, Lu Z, Keyomarsi K, Lee MH, Zhao J, Bast RC. Anti-HER2 antibody trastuzumab inhibits CDK2-mediated NPAT and Histone H4 expression via the PI3K pathway. Cell Cycle 5(15):1654-1661, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16861913.
67. Lu Z, Luo RZ, Peng H, Rosen DG, Atkinson EN, Warneke C, Huang M, Nishmoto A, Liu J, Liao WS, Yu Y, Bast RC. Transcriptional and posttranscriptional down-regulation of the imprinted tumor suppressor gene ARHI (DRAS3) in ovarian cancer. Clin Cancer Res 12(8):2404-2413, 2006. PMID: 16638845.
68. Rosen DG, Wang L, Atkinson JN, Yu Y, Lu KH, Diamandis EP, Hellstrom I, Mok SC, Liu J, Bast RC. Potential markers that complement expression of CA 125 in epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 99(2):267-277, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 16061277.
69. Marquez RT, Baggerly KA, Patterson AP, Liu J, Broaddus R, Frumovitz M, Atkinson EN, Smith DI, Hartmann L, Fishman D, Berchuck A, Whitaker R, Gershenson DM, Mills GB, Bast RC, Lu KH. Patterns of gene expression in different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer correlate with those in normal fallopian tube, endometrium and colon. Clin Cancer Res 11(17):6116-6126, 2005. PMID: 16144910.
70. Bast RC, Lilja H, Urban N, Rimm DL, Fritsche H, Gray J, Veltri R, Klee G, Allen A, Kim N, Gutman S, Rubin MA, Hruszkewycz A. Translational crossroads for biomarkers. Clin Cancer Res 11(17):6103-8, 2005. PMID: 16144908.
71. Le XF, Lammayot A, Gold D, Lu Y, Mao W, Chang T, Patel A, Mills GB, Bast RC. Genes affecting the cell cycle, growth, maintenance, and drug sensitivity are preferentially regulated by anti-HER2 antibody through phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-AKT signaling. J Biol Chem 280(3):2092-2104, 2005. e-Pub 2004. PMID: 15504738.
72. Lu KH, Patterson AP, Wang L, Marquez RT, Atkinson EN, Baggerly KA, Ramoth LR, Rosen DG, Liu J, Hellstrom I, Smith D, Hartmann L, Fishman D, Berchuck A, Schmandt R, Whitaker R, Gershenson DM, Mills GB, Bast RC. Selection of potential markers for epithelial ovarian cancer with gene expression arrays and recursive descent partition analysis. Clin Cancer Res 10(10):3291-3300, 2004. PMID: 15161682.
73. Liu J, Yang G, Thompson-Lanza JA, Glassman A, Hayes K, Patterson A, Marquez RT, Auersperg N, Yu Y, Hahn WC, Mills GB, Bast RC. A genetically defined model for human ovarian cancer. Cancer Res 64(5):1655-1663, 2004. PMID: 14996724.
74. Le XF, Claret FX, Lammayot A, Tian L, Deshpande D, LaPushin R, Tari AM, Bast RC. The role of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 in anti-HER2 antibody-induced G1 cell cycle arrest and tumor growth inhibition. J Biol Chem 278(26):23441-23450, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 12700233.
75. Luo RZ, Fang X, Marquez R, Liu SY, Mills GB, Liao WS, Yu Y, Bast RC. ARHI is a Ras-related small G-protein with a novel N-terminal extension that inhibits growth of ovarian and breast cancers. Oncogene 22(19):2897-2909, 2003. PMID: 12771940.
76. Le XF, Hittelman WN, Liu J, McWatters A, Li C, Mills GB, Bast RC. Paclitaxel induces inactivation of p70 S6 kinase and phosphorylation of Thr421 and Ser424 via multiple signaling pathways in mitosis. Oncogene 22(4):484-497, 2003. PMID: 12555062.
77. Bao JJ, Le XF, Wang RY, Yuan J, Wang L, Atkinson EN, LaPushin R, Andreeff M, Fang B, Yu Y, Bast RC. Reexpression of the tumor suppressor gene ARHI induces apoptosis in ovarian and breast cancer cells through a caspase-independent calpain-dependent pathway. Cancer Res 62(24):7264-7272, 2002. PMID: 12499268.
78. Le XF, Marcelli M, McWatters A, Nan B, Mills GB, O'Brian CA, Bast RC. Heregulin-induced apoptosis is mediated by down-regulation of Bcl-2 and activation of caspase-7 and is potentiated by impairment of protein kinase C α activity. Oncogene 20(57):8258-8269, 2001. PMID: 11781840.
79. Bast RC, Ravdin P, Hayes DF, Bates S, Fritsche H, Jessup JM, Kemeny N, Locker GY, Mennel RG, Somerfield MR, American Society of Clinical Oncology Tumor Markers Expert Panel. 2000 update of recommendations for the use of tumor markers in breast and colorectal cancer: clinical practice guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. J Clin Oncol 19(6):1865-1878, 2001. PMID: 11251019.
80. Kruzelock RP, Cuevas BD, Wiener JR, Xu FJ, Yu Y, Cabeza-Arvelaiz Y, Pershouse M, Lovell MM, Killary AM, Mills GB, Bast RC. Functional evidence for an ovarian cancer tumor suppressor gene on chromosome 22 by microcell-mediated chromosome transfer. Oncogene 19(54):6277-6285, 2000. PMID: 11175342.
81. Xu F, Leadon SA, Yu Y, Boyer CM, O'Briant K, Ward K, McWatters A, Zhao X, Bae DS, DeSombre K, Zalutsky MR, Bast RC. Synergistic interaction between anti-p185HER-2 ricin A chain immunotoxins and radionuclide conjugates for inhibiting growth of ovarian and breast cancer cells that overexpress HER-2. Clin Cancer Res 6(8):3334-3341, 2000. PMID: 10955821.
82. Le XF, Vadlamudi R, McWatters A, Bae DS, Mills GB, Kumar R, Bast RC. Differential signaling by an anti-p185(HER2) antibody and heregulin. Cancer Res 60(13):3522-3531, 2000. PMID: 10910064.
83. Zhang Z, Barnhill SD, Zhang H, Xu F, Yu Y, Jacobs I, Woolas RP, Berchuck A, Madyastha KR, Bast RC. Combination of multiple serum markers using an artificial neural network to improve specificity in discriminating malignant from benign pelvic masses. Gynecol Oncol 73(1):56-61, 1999. PMID: 10094881.
84. Yu Y, Xu F, Peng H, Fang X, Zhao S, Li Y, Cuevas B, Kuo WL, Gray JW, Siciliano M, Mills GB, Bast RC. NOEY2 (ARHI), an imprinted putative tumor suppressor gene in ovarian and breast carcinomas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96(1):214-219, 1999. PMID: 9874798.
85. McGeehan GM, Becherer JD, Bast RC, Boyer CM, Champion B, Connolly KM, Conway JG, Furdon P, Karp S, Kidao S. Regulation of tumour necrosis factor-α processing by a metalloproteinase inhibitor. Nature 370(6490):558-561, 1994. PMID: 8052311.
86. Lidor YJ, O'Briant KC, Xu FJ, Hamilton TC, Ozols RF, Bast RC. Alkylating agents and immunotoxins exert synergistic cytotoxic activity against ovarian cancer cells. Mechanism of action. J Clin Invest 92(5):2440-2447, 1993. PMID: 8227359.
87. Woolas RP, Xu FJ, Jacobs IJ, Yu YH, Daly L, Berchuck A, Soper JT, Clarke-Pearson DL, Oram DH, Bast RC. Elevation of multiple serum markers in patients with stage I ovarian cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 85(21):1748-1751, 1993. PMID: 8411259.
88. Jacobs IJ, Kohler MF, Wiseman RW, Marks JR, Whitaker R, Kerns BA, Humphrey P, Berchuck A, Ponder BA, Bast RC. Clonal origin of epithelial ovarian carcinoma: analysis by loss of heterozygosity, p53 mutation, and X-chromosome inactivation. J Natl Cancer Inst 84(23):1793-1798, 1992. PMID: 1433368.
89. Ramakrishnan S, Xu FJ, Brandt SJ, Niedel JE, Bast RC, Brown EL. Constitutive production of macrophage colony-stimulating factor by human ovarian and breast cancer cell lines. J Clin Invest 83(3):921-926, 1989. PMID: 2646321.
90. Feig LA, Bast RC, Knapp RC, Cooper GM. Somatic activation of rasK gene in a human ovarian carcinoma. Science 223(4637):698-701, 1984. PMID: 6695178.
91. Bast RC, Klug TL, St John E, Jenison E, Niloff JM, Lazarus H, Berkowitz RS, Leavitt T, Griffiths CT, Parker L, Zurawski VR, Knapp RC. A radioimmunoassay using a monoclonal antibody to monitor the course of epithelial ovarian cancer. N Engl J Med 309(15):883-887, 1983. PMID: 6310399.
92. Bast RC, Feeney M, Lazarus H, Nadler LM, Colvin RB, Knapp RC. Reactivity of a monoclonal antibody with human ovarian carcinoma. J Clin Invest 68(5):1331-1337, 1981. PMID: 7028788.

Editorials

1. Bast RC, Mills GB. Personalizing therapy for ovarian cancer: BRCAness and beyond. J Clin Oncol 28(22):3545-8, 2010. PMID: 20547987.
2. Moore RG, Bast RC. How do you distinguish a malignant pelvic mass from a benign pelvic mass? Imaging, biomarkers, or none of the above. J Clin Oncol 25(27):4159-61, 2007. PMID: 17698803.
3. Bast RC, Hortobagyi GN. Individualized care for patients with cancer: A work in progress. N Engl J Med 351(27):2865-2867, 2004. PMID: 15591336.
4. Bast RC. Progress in radioimmunotherapy. N Engl J Med 329(17):1266-1268, 1993. PMID: 8413396.