Mala Pande, PhD, MPH, MBBS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Domgue JF, Pande M, Yu R, Manjuh F, Welty E, Welty T, Elit L, Lopez-Varon M, Rodriguez J, Baker E, Dangou J-M, Basu P, Plante M, Lecuru F, Randall T, Starr E, Kamgno J, Foxhall L, Waxman A, Hawk E, Schmeler K, Shete S. Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a distance learning and tele-mentoring program for cervical cancer prevention in Cameroon. JAMA Network Open, 2022.
2. Osaghae I, Darkoh C, Chido-Amajuoyi OG, Chan W, Wermuth PP, Pande M, Cunningham SA, Shete S. Association of Provider HPV Vaccination Training with Provider Assessment of HPV Vaccination Status and Recommendation of HPV Vaccination. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022.
3. Chido-Amajuoyi OG, Pande M, Agbajogu C, Yu RK, Cunningham S, Shete S. HPV Vaccination Uptake, Hesitancy and Refusal: Observations of Healthcare Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic. JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
4. Pande M, Peterson S, Lynch PM. Development and Evaluation of an Online, Patient-Driven, Family Outreach Intervention to Facilitate Sharing of Genetic Risk Information in Families with Lynch Syndrome. J Med Genet 59(6):589-596, 2022. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34006620.
5. Weston BR, Patel JM, Pande M, Lum PJ, Ross WA, Raju GS, Lynch PM, Coronel E, Ge PS, Lee JH. Efficacy of uncovered colonic stents for extrinsic versus intrinsic malignant large bowel obstruction. Surg Endosc 35(8):4511-4519, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32909212.
6. International Mismatch Repair Consortium. Variation in the risk of colorectal cancer in families with Lynch syndrome: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Oncol 22(7):1014-1022, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34111421.
7. Suresh S, Pande M, Patel K, Mahometano LD, Romero LG, Barringer D, Sealock RJ, Raju GS. Education, Training, and knowledge of infection control among endoscopy technicians and nurses. Am J Infect Control 49(6):836-839, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33485921.
8. Abu-Sbeih H, Ali FS, Tang T, Coronel E, Lee HJ, Pande M, Bresalier RS, Raju GS, Wang Y. Rate of colorectal neoplasia in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma. Colorectal Dis 22(2):154-160, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31541529.
9. Coletta AM, Peterson SK, Gatus LA, Krause KJ, Schembre SM, Gilchrist SC, Pande M, Vilar E, You YN, Rodriguez-Bigas MA, Strong LL, Lynch PM, Lu KH, Basen-Engquist K. Energy balance related lifestyle factors and risk of endometrial and colorectal cancer among individuals with lynch syndrome: a systematic review. Fam Cancer 18(4):399-420, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31236808.
10. Dhar S, Gor B, Banerjee D, Krishnan S, Dorai VK, Jones L, Kabad K, Naik LR, Legha SS, Pande M. Differences in nativity, age and gender may impact health behavior and perspectives among Asian Indians. Ethn Health 24(5):1-11, 2019. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28669236.
11. Gor B, Nepal VP, Dongardive R, Dorai VK, Pande M. Is socioeconomic advantage associated with positive health behaviors and health outcomes among Asian Indians?. Health Serv Res Manag Epidemiol 6:2333392819830371, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30891469.
12. Dashti SG, Win AK, Hardikar SS, Glombicki SE, Mallenahalli S, Thirumurthi S, Peterson SK, You YN, Buchanan DD, Figueiredo JC, Campbell PT, Gallinger S, Newcomb PA, Potter JD, Lindor NM, Le Marchand L, Haile RW, Hopper JL, Jenkins MA, Basen-Engquist KM, Lynch PM, Pande M. Physical activity and the risk of colorectal cancer in Lynch syndrome. Int J Cancer 143(9):2250-2260, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29904935.
13. Pande M, Joon A, Brewster AM, Chen WV, Hopper JL, Eng C, Shete S, Casey G, Schumacher F, Lin Y, Harrison TA, White E, Ahsan H, Andrulis IL, Whittemore AS, John EM, Ko Win A, Makalic E, Schmidt DF, Kapuscinski MK, Ochs-Balcom HM, Gallinger S, Jenkins MA, Newcomb PA, Lindor NM, Peters U, Amos CI, Lynch PM. Genetic susceptibility markers for a breast-colorectal cancer phenotype: Exploratory results from genome-wide association studies. PLoS One 13(4):e0196245, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29698419.
14. Borras E, Chang K, Pande M, Cuddy A, Bosch JL, Bannon SA, Mork ME, Rodriguez-Bigas MA, Taggart MW, Lynch PM, You YN, Vilar E. In Silico Systems Biology Analysis of Variants of Uncertain Significance in Lynch Syndrome Supports the Prioritization of Functional Molecular Validation. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 10(10):580-587, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28765196.
15. Wang H, Schmit SL, Haiman CA, Keku TO, Kato I, Palmer JR, van den Berg D, Wilkens LR, Burnett T, Conti DV, Schumacher FR, Signorello LB, Blot WJ, Zanetti KA, Harris C, Pande M, Berndt SI, Newcomb PA, West DW, Haile R, Stram DO, Figueiredo JC, Hispanic Colorectal Cancer Study, Le Marchand L. Novel colon cancer susceptibility variants identified from a genome-wide association study in African Americans. Int J Cancer 140(12):2728-2733, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28295283.
16. Weston BR, Ross WA, Bhutani MS, Lee JH, Pande M, Sholl AB, Krishnamurthy S. Prospective randomized comparison of a 22G core needle using standard versus capillary suction for EUS-guided sampling of solid pancreatic masses. Endosc Int Open 5(6):E505-E512, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28596983.
17. Thirumurthi S, Raju GS, Pande M, Ruiz J, Carlson R, Hagan KB, Lee JH, Ross WA. Does Deep Sedation with Propofol Affect Adenoma Detection Rates in Average Risk Screening Colonoscopy Exams?. World J Gastrointest Endosc 9(4):177-182, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28465784.
18. Karami S, Han Y, Pande M, Cheng I, Rudd J, Pierce BL, Nutter EL, Schumacher FR, Kote-Jarai Z, Lindstrom S, Witte JS, Fang S, Han J, Kraft P, Hunter DJ, Song F, Hung RJ, McKay J, Gruber SB, Chanock SJ, Risch A, Shen H, Haiman CA, Boardman L, Ulrich CM, Casey G, Peters U, Amin Al Olama A, Berchuck A, Berndt SI, Bezieau S, Brennan P, Brenner H, Brinton L, Caporaso N, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Christiani DC, Cunningham JM, Easton D, Eeles RA, Eisen T, Gala M, Gallinger SJ, Gayther SA, Goode EL, Grönberg H, Henderson BE, Houlston R, Joshi AD, Küry S, Landi MT, Le Marchand L, Muir K, Newcomb PA, Permuth-Wey J, Pharoah P, Phelan C, Potter JD, Ramus SJ, Risch H, Schildkraut J, Slattery ML, Song H, Wentzensen N, White E, Wiklund F, Zanke BW, Sellers TA, Zheng W, Chatterjee N, Amos CI, Doherty JA, GECCO and the GAME-ON Network: CORECT, DRIVE, ELLIPSE, FOCI, and TRICL. Telomere structure and maintenance gene variants and risk of five cancer types. Int J Cancer 139(12):2655-2670, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27459707.
19. Chen LS, Baker T, Hung RJ, Horton A, Culverhouse R, Hartz S, Saccone N, Cheng I, Deng B, Han Y, Hansen HM, Horsman J, Kim C, Rosenberger A, Aben KK, Andrew AS, Chang SC, Saum KU, Dienemann H, Hatsukami DK, Johnson EO, Pande M, Wrensch MR, McLaughlin J, Skaug V, van der Heijden EH, Wampfler J, Wenzlaff A, Woll P, Zienolddiny S, Bickeböller H, Brenner H, Duell EJ, Haugen A, Brüske I, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Mayordomo J, Risch A, Schwartz AG, Teare MD, Wu X, Wiencke JK, Yang P, Zhang ZF, Spitz MR, Amos CI, Bierut LJ. Genetic risk can be decreased: Quitting smoking decreases and delays lung cancer for smokers with high and low CHRNA5 risk genotypes - A Meta-analysis. EBioMedicine 11:219-226, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27543155.
20. Raju GS, Lum PJ, Ross WA, Thirumurthi S, Miller E, Lynch PM, Lee JH, Bhutani MS, Shafi MA, Weston BR, Pande M, Bresalier RS, Rashid A, Mishra L, Davila ML, Stroehlein JR. Outcome of EMR as an alternative to surgery in patients with complex colon polyps. Gastrointest Endosc 84(2):315-25, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26859866.
21. Raju GS, Lum PJ, Slack RS, Thirumurthi S, Lynch PM, Miller E, Weston BR, Davila ML, Bhutani MS, Shafi MA, Bresalier RS, Dekovich AA, Lee JH, Guha S, Pande M, Blechacz B, Rashid A, Routbort M, Shuttlesworth G, Mishra L, Stroehlein JR, Ross WA. Natural Language Processing As an Alternative to Manual Reporting of Colonoscopy Quality Metrics. Gastrointest Endosc 82(3):512-9, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25910665.
22. Chen LS, Hung RJ, Baker T, Horton A, Culverhouse R, Saccone N, Cheng I, Deng B, Han Y, Hansen HM, Horsman J, Kim C, Lutz S, Rosenberger A, Aben KK, Andrew AS, Breslau N, Chang SC, Dieffenbach AK, Dienemann H, Frederiksen B, Han J, Hatsukami DK, Johnson EO, Pande M, Wrensch MR, McLaughlin J, Skaug V, van der Heijden HF, Wampfler J, Wenzlaff A, Woll P, Zienolddiny S, Bickeböller H, Brenner H, Duell EJ, Haugen A, Heinrich J, Hokanson JE, Hunter DJ, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Mayordomo J, Risch A, Schwartz AG, Teare D, Wu X, Wiencke JK, Yang P, Zhang ZF, Spitz MR, Kraft P, Amos CI, Bierut LJ. CHRNA5 risk variant predicts delayed smoking cessation and earlier lung cancer diagnosis--a meta-analysis. J Natl Cancer Inst 107(5), 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25873736.
23. Ross WA, Thirumurthi S, Lynch PM, Rashid A, Pande M, Shafi MA, Lee JH, Raju GS. Detection rates of premalignant polyps during screening colonoscopy: Time to revise quality standards?. Gastrointest Endosc 81(3):567-74, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25583558.
24. Pande M, Bondy ML, Do KA, Sahin AA, Ying J, Mills GB, Thompson PA, Brewster AM. Association between germline single nucleotide polymorphisms in the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway, obesity, and breast cancer disease-free survival. Breast Cancer Res Treat 147(2):381-7, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25108739.
25. Park SL, Fesinmeyer MD, Timofeeva M, Caberto CP, Kocarnik JM, Han Y, Love SA, Young A, Dumitrescu L, Lin Y, Goodloe R, Wilkens LR, Hindorff L, Fowke JH, Carty C, Buyske S, Schumacher FR, Butler A, Dilks H, Deelman E, Cote ML, Chen W, Pande M, Christiani DC, Field JK, Bickebller H, Risch A, Heinrich J, Brennan P, Wang Y, Eisen T, Houlston RS, Thun M, Albanes D, Caporaso N, Peters U, North KE, Heiss G, Crawford DC, Bush WS, Haiman CA, Landi MT, Hung RJ, Kooperberg C, Amos CI, Le Marchand L, Cheng I. Pleiotropic associations of risk variants identified for other cancers with lung cancer risk: The PAGE and TRICL consortia. J Natl Cancer Inst 106(4):dju061, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24681604.
26. Wang H, Burnett T, Kono S, Haiman CA, Iwasaki M, Wilkens LR, Loo LW, Van Den Berg D, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Keku TO, Sandler RS, Signorello LB, Blot WJ, Newcomb PA, Pande M, Amos CI, West DW, Bézieau S, Berndt SI, Zanke BW, Hsu L, Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO), Lindor NM, Haile RW, Hopper JL, Jenkins MA, Gallinger S, Casey G, Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR), Stenzel SL, Schumacher FR, Peters U, Gruber SB, Colorectal Transdisciplinary Study (CORECT), Tsugane S, Stram DO, Le Marchand L. Trans-ethnic genome-wide association study of colorectal cancer identifies a new susceptibility locus in VTI1A. Nat Commun 5:4613, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25105248.
27. Wang H, Haiman CA, Burnett T, Fortini BK, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Signorello LB, Blot WJ, Keku TO, Berndt SI, Newcomb PA, Pande M, Amos CI, West DW, Casey G, Sandler RS, Haile R, Stram DO, Le Marchand L. Fine-mapping of Genome-wide Association Study-identified Risk Loci for Colorectal Cancer in African Americans. Hum Mol Genet 22(24):5048-55, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23851122.
28. Wei C*, Chen J*, Pande M, Lynch PM, Frazier ML. A pilot study comparing protein expression in different segments of the normal colon and rectum and in normal colon versus adenoma in patients with Lynch syndrome. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 139(7):1241-50, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23604467.
29. Murray JL, Thompson P, Yoo SY, Do KA, Pande M, Zhou R, Liu Y, Sahin AA, Bondy ML, Brewster AM. Prognostic Value of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Candidate Genes Associated with Inflammation in Early Stage Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 138(3):917-24, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23529385.
30. Pande M, Thompson PA, Do KA, Sahin AA, Amos CI, Frazier ML, Bondy ML, Brewster AM. Genetic Variants in the Vitamin D Pathway and Breast Cancer Disease Free Survival. Carcinogenesis 34(3):587-94, 2013. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23180655.
31. Chen J* and Pande M*, Huang YJ, Wei C, Amos CI, Talseth-Palmer BA, Meldrum CJ, Chen WV, Gorlov IP, Lynch PM, Scott RJ, Frazier ML. Cell cycle-related genes as modifiers of age of onset of colorectal cancer in Lynch syndrome: a large-scale study in non-Hispanic white patients. Carcinogenesis 34(2):299-306, 2013. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23125224.
32. Timofeeva MN, Hung RJ, Rafnar T, Christiani DC, Field JK, Bickeböller H, Risch A, McKay JD, Wang Y, Dai J, Gaborieau V, McLaughlin J, Brenner D, Narod SA, Caporaso NE, Albanes D, Thun M, Eisen T, Wichmann HE, Rosenberger A, Han Y, Chen W, Zhu D, Spitz M, Wu X, Pande M, Zhao Y, Zaridze D, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Lissowska J, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Mates D, Bencko V, Foretova L, Janout V, Krokan HE, Gabrielsen ME, Skorpen F, Vatten L, Njølstad I, Chen C, Goodman G, Lathrop M, Benhamou S, Vooder T, Välk K, Nelis M, Metspalu A, Raji O, Chen Y, Gosney J, Liloglou T, Muley T, Dienemann H, Thorleifsson G, Shen H, Stefansson K, Brennan P, Amos CI, Houlston R, Landi MT, Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung (TRICL) Research Team. Influence of Common Genetic Variation on Lung Cancer Risk: Meta-Analysis of 14,900 Cases and 29,485 Controls. Hum Mol Genet 21(22):4980-95, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22899653.
33. Pande M, Wei C, Chen J, Amos CI, Lynch PM, Lu KH, Lucio LA, Boyd-Rogers SG, Bannon SA, Mork ME, Frazier ML. Cancer spectrum in DNA mismatch repair gene mutation carriers: results from a hospital based Lynch syndrome registry. Fam Cancer 11(3):441-7, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22714864.
34. Pande M, Spitz MR, Wu X, Gorlov IP, Chen WV, Amos CI. Novel genetic variants in the chromosome 5p15.33 region associate with lung cancer risk. Carcinogenesis 32(10):1493-9, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21771723.
35. Chen J, Wu X, Pande M, Amos CI, Killary AM, Sen S, Frazier ML. Susceptibility locus for lung cancer at 15q25.1 is not associated with risk of pancreatic cancer. Pancreas 40(6):872-5, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21697764.
36. Pande M, Amos CI, Eng C, Frazier ML. Interactions between cigarette smoking and selected polymorphisms in xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes in risk for colorectal cancer: A case-only analysis. Mol Carcinog 49(11):974-80, 2010. PMID: 20886582.
37. Pande M, Lynch PM, Hopper JL, Jenkins MA, Gallinger S, Haile RW, LeMarchand L, Lindor NM, Campbell PT, Newcomb PA, Potter JD, Baron JA, Frazier ML, Amos CI. Smoking and colorectal cancer in Lynch syndrome: results from the Colon Cancer Family Registry and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Clin Cancer Res 16(4):1331-9, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20145170.

Invited Articles

1. Chen J, Zhu J, Pande M, Amos J, Frazier ML, Wei C.. Modifiers of Expression in Mutations of Mismatch Repair Gene Carriers in Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer. Current Colorectal Cancer Reports 2:179-184, 2006.

Editorials

1. Lynch PM, Pande M. Refining Risk Estimates in Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer: Are We There Yet?. JNCI Cancer Spectr 4(5):pkaa030, 2020. PMID: 33134819.

Book Chapters

1. Pande M, and Frazier ML. Epidemiology. In: Colorectal Cancer: Diagnosis and Clinical Management. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2014.
2. Pande M, Chen J, Wei C, Huang Y, Frazier ML. Mutations in non-MMR genes modifying or mimicking Lynch syndrome phenotype. In: DNA alterations in Lynch syndrome: advances in molecular diagnosis and genetic counselling. Springer: Cape Town, South Africa, 135-170, 2013.