Shorook Na'ara, MD, PHD
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Surgery
About Dr. Shorook Na'ara
Dr. Shorook Naara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Naara is a head and neck surgical oncologist with clinical expertise in oral cavity cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, transoral robotic surgery (TORS), cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, and endocrine surgery.
Dr. Naara’s research interests focus on translational immuno-oncology and tumor microenvironment biology in head and neck and skin cancers. Her work integrates spatial and single-cell technologies to study mechanisms of immunotherapy response and resistance, biomarker discovery, and immunoprevention strategies in oral potentially malignant disorders.
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Surgery Division, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2018 | Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Haifa District, IL, PhD |
| 2015 | Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IL, Cancer Research, MSc |
| 2012 | Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Insitute of Technology, Haifa, Haifa District, IL, M.D |
| 2008 | Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Haifa District, IL, BSc |
Postgraduate Training
| 2023-2025 | Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Fellow, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 2021-2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California |
| 2017-2021 | Chief Resident, Otolaryngology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Haifa |
| 2017-2021 | Staff Researcher, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Haifa |
| 2015-2021 | Resident, Otolaryngology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Haifa |
| 2012-2013 | Intern, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Haifa |
| 2009-2012 | Doctor's Assistant, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Haifa |
| 2009-2012 | Doctor's Assistant, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Haifa |
Experience & Service
Editorial Activities
Editorial Board Member, Advanced Biology
Honors & Awards
| 2024 - Present | Conquer Cancer Merit Award, The ASCO Foundation |
| 2021 - 2023 | VATAT, Israel Council for Higher Education |
| 2021 - 2024 | Israel National Postdoctoral Award Committee for Advancing Women in Science, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 2018 - Present | Best Resident Research Award, The Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology |
| 2015 - Present | Excellence Scholarship for PhD Research, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa Israel |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
National Presentations
- 2025. Chemo-Immunotherapy in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: The MD Anderson Experience. AHNS Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, US.
- 2024. Intralesional nivolumab in oral potentially malignant disorders: A phase 1 pilot study on safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy. ASCO Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, US.
- 2024. Response-Adapted Oncologic Surgery for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Personalized Approach in the Immunotherapy Era. AHNS Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, US.
- 2020. Iatrogenic Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Head and Neck Patients. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2020. Outcome of patients with recurrent and/ or metastatic head and neck cancer treated with immunotherapy: a single center experience. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2020. Incorporating perineural invasion to tumor classification of oral cancer: an international study. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2018. Do Senior Specialists Have Better Results Than Residents in Performing Tonsillectomy?. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2018. Cold Versus Hot Adenoidectomy: A Prospective Randomized Trial. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2018. Efficacy of post-treatment radioiodine scanning in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2018. Submucosal Resection Vs Endoscopic Septoplasty for Treating Deviated Nasal Septum: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2018. The post translational effect of PIGU on the sodium iodide symporter in well differentiated thyroid carcinoma. The Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology. Kfar Blum, IL.
- 2018. The correlation between PIGU expression and radioactive iodine resistance in patients with well differentiated thyroid cancer. The Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology. Kfar Blum, IL.
- 2016. Mechanisms of radioiodine resistance in well differentiated thyroid cancer. The Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology. Hagoshrem, IL.
- 2016. The role of GPIT complex in well differentiated thyroid cancer. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2015. Benchmark Values of the Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Quality of Life Scores of Patients with Laryngeal Cancer. The Annual Conference of the Israeli Society of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology. Hagoshrem, IL.
- 2014. Surgical Treatment of Locally Advanced Thyroid Cancer. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eliat, IL.
- 2014. Treatment and Outcome of Patients with Skull Base Chordoma: A Meta-analysis. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
- 2014. Outcome of patients undergoing salvage surgery for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a meta-analysis. Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting. Eilat, Southern District, IL.
International Presentations
- 2022. Mechanobiological Aspects of Cancerous Neural Invasion. Cancer Neuroscience A Novel, Actionable Hallmark of Cancer Symposium. Houston, US.
- 2019. Incorporating perineural invasion to tumor classification of oral cancer: an international study. 7th WORLD CONGRESS of the International Academy of Oral Oncology, IAOO. Rome, IL.
- 2019. L1CAM induces perineural invasion of pancreas cancer cells by upregulation of metalloproteinase expression. The Neural Influences in Cancer Think-Tank Meeting. Heidelberg, DE.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Shinnawi S, Matanis W, Noy R, Na'ara S, Cohen-Vaizer M, Cohen JT, Gordin AJ. Does the level of surgical training influence tonsillectomy outcomes? A prospective randomized study. Laryngol Otol, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Yaniv D, Na'ara S, Netto FOG, Stafford H, Buell J, Chiang E, Shahrukh A, Li S, Nagarajan P, Hanna EY, Gross ND, Amit M. Response-Adapted Oncologic Surgery in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Paradigm Shift Following Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy. Ann Surg Oncol, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Baruch EN, Gleber-Netto FO, Nagarajan P, Rao X, Akhter S, Eichwald T, Xie T, Balood M, Adewale A, Na'ara S, Sathishkumar HN, Islam S, McCarthy W, Mattson BJ, Ferrarotto R, Wong MK, Davies MA, Jindal S, Basu S, Roversi K, Nikpoor AR, Ahmadi M, Ahmadi A, Harwood C, Leigh I, Gong D, Tallón de Lara P, Tao DL, Davidson TM, Ajami NJ, Futreal A, Rai K, Kochat V, Castillo M, Gunaratne P, Goepfert RP, Hernandez SD, Khushalani NI, Wang J, Watowich SS, Calin GA, Migden MR, Yuan M, Liu N, Ye Y, Hwang WL, Vermeer PD, D'Silva NJ, Bunimovich YL, Yaniv D, Burks JK, Gomez J, Dougherty PM, Tsai KY, Allison JP, Sharma P, Wargo JA, Myers JN, Talbot S, Gross ND, Amit M. Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy. Nature, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Na'ara S, Shinnawi S, Habashi N, Rimmer E, Billan S, Cohen JT. Evaluation and Outcomes of Iatrogenic Oropharyngeal Dysphagia. Clin Otolaryngol, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Nguyen J, Naara S, Woerner L, VanLandingham N, Hoerner M, Santuray R, Blum K, Kim M, Johnson D, Grandis J. Blockade of the PGE2 pathway inhibits the growth of PTEN deficient HNSCC tumors. Molecular Cancer Therapuetics, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Na'ara S, Cui Z, Izgutdina A, VanLandingham NK, Nazarenko A, Woerner LC, Hua Fu BX, Gilbert LA, Johnson DE, Grandis JR. Neddylation as a target in PIK3CA-mutated head and neck cancer. Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- de Almeida JR, Hueniken K, Xie M, Monteiro E, Zadeh G, Kalyvas A, Gullane P, Snyderman C, Wang E, Gardner P, Fliss D, Ringel B, Gil Z, Na'ara S, Ooi E, Goldstein D, Witterick I. Multi-Institutional Comparison of Quality of Life Between Open Versus Endoscopic Skull Base Approaches. Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
- Li S, Townes T, Na'ara S. Current Advances and Challenges in the Management of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Immunosuppressed Patients. Cancers, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Na'ara S, Andrews C, Sikora A, Williams M, Chambers M, Myers J, Amit M. Oral Premalignancy: An Update on Novel Therapeutic Approaches. Curr Oncol Rep, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Amit M, Anastasaki C, Dantzer R, Demir IE, Deneen B, Dixon K, Egeblad M, Gibson EM, Hervey-Jumper S, Hondermarck H, Magnon C, Monje M, Na'ara S, Pan Y, Repasky E, Scheff N, Sloan E, Talbot S, Tracey K, Trotman L, Valiente M, Van Aelst L, Venkataramani V, Venkatesh H, Vermeer P, Winkler F, Wong R, Gutmann D, and Borniger J. Next directions in the neuroscience of cancers arising outside the CNS. Cancer Discov, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
- Kuan EC, Wang EW, Adappa ND, Beswick DM, Jr LN, Su SY, Wang MB, Abuzeid WM, Alexiev B, Alt JA, Antognoni P, Alonso-Basanta M, Batra PS, Bhayani M, Bell D, Bernal-Sprekelsen M, Betz CS, Blay JY, Bleier BS, Bonilla-Velez J, Callejas C, Carrau RL, Casiano RR, Castelnuovo P, Chandra RK, Chatzinakis V, Chen SB, Chiu AG, Choby G, Chowdhury NI, Citardi MJ, Cohen MA, Dagan R, Dalfino G, Dallan I, Dassi CS, de Almeida J, Dei Tos AP, DelGaudio JM, Ebert CS, El-Sayed IH, Eloy JA, Evans JJ, Fang CH, Farrell NF, Ferrari M, Fischbein N, Folbe A, Fokkens WJ, Fox MG, Lund VJ, Gallia GL, Gardner PA, Geltzeiler M, Georgalas C, Getz AE, Govindaraj S, Gray ST, Grayson JW, Gross BA, Grube JG, Guo R, Ha PK, Halderman AA, Hanna EY, Naara S, Harvey RJ, Hernandez SC, Holtzman AL, Hopkins C, Huang Z, Huang Z, Humphreys IM, Hwang PH, Iloreta AM, Ishii M, Ivan ME, Jafari A, Kennedy DW, Khan M, Kimple AJ, Kingdom TT, Knisely A, Kuo YJ, Lal D, Lamarre ED, Lan MY, Le H, Lechner M, Lee NY, Lee JK, Lee VH, Levine CG, Lin JC, Lin DT, Lobo BC, Locke T, Luong AU, Magliocca KR, Markovic SN, Matnjani G, McKean EL, Meço C, Mendenhall WM, Michel L, Na'ara S, Nicolai P, Nuss DW, Nyquist GG, Oakley GM, Omura K, Orlandi RR, Otori N, Papagiannopoulos P, Patel ZM, Pfister DG, Phan J, Psaltis AJ, Rabinowitz MR, Jr RM, Rimmer R, Rosen MR, Sanusi O, Sargi ZB, Schafhausen P, Schlosser RJ, Sedaghat AH, Senior BA, Shrivastava R, Sindwani R, Smith TL, Smith KA, Snyderman CH, Solares CA, Sreenath SB, Stamm A, Stölzel K, Sumer B, Surda P, Tajudeen BA, Thompson LDR, Thorp BD, Tong CCL, Tsang RK, Turner JH, Turri-Zanoni M, Udager AM, van Zele T, VanKoevering K, Welch KC, Wise SK, Witterick IJ, Won TB, Wong SN, Woodworth BA, Wormald PJ, Yao WC, Yeh CF, Zhou B, Palmer JN. International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Sinonasal Tumors. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Na’ara S, Subramaniam N, Deganello N, Shinnawi S, Billan S, Mattavelli S, Ferrari M, Balasubramanian D, Thankappan K, Iyer S, Gil Z. Primary Tumor Staging for Oral Cancer and a Proposed Modification Incorporating Perineural Invasion: An International Multicenter Study. Adv Biol (Weinh), 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Cohen-Vaizer M, Dreyfuss M, Na’ara S, Shinnawi S, Laske R. The impact of surgical expertise on the cost-effectiveness of stapes surgery. Audiol Neurootol, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Chen H, Zhao W, Na’ara S, Gleber-Netto F, Xie T, Ali S, Thompson Z, Buell J, Stafford H, Nagarajan P, Davies M, Wong M, Migden M, Sharma P, Myers J, Gross N, Amit M. Beta-Blocker Use Is Associated With Worse Relapse-Free Survival in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer. JCO Precis Oncol, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Mukherjee A, Ha P, Wai K, Na'ara S. The Role of ECM Remodeling, EMT, and Adhesion Molecules in Cancerous Neural Invasion: Changing Perspectives. Adv Biol (Weinh), 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Karawani H, Matanis W, Na'ara S. Middle ear effusion and newborn hearing screening. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Demir I, Reyes C, Alrawashdeh W, Ceyhan G, Deborde S, Friess H, Görgülü K, Istvanffy R, Jungwirth D, Kuner R, Maryanovich M, Na’ara S, Renders S, Saloman J, Scheff N, Steenfadt H, Stupakov P, Thiel V, Verma D, Yilmaz B, White R, Wang T, Wong R, Frenette P, Gil Z, Davis B. Future directions in preclinical and translational cancer neuroscience research. Nature Cancer, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Na'ara S, Aronov M, Gil Z, Gordin A. Can Tonsillectomy Be Safely Performed by Residents? A Comparative Retrospective Study. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Shinnawi S, Kopaev I, Na’ara S, Eran A, Sviri G, Ostrovsky D, Gil Z. Long-Term Quality of Life after Endoscopic Pituitary Adenoma Surgery with Nasoseptal Flap Reconstruction. Rambam Maimonides Med J, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
- Forner D, Hueniken K, Yoannidis T, Wittreck I, Monteiro E, Zadeh G, Gullane P, Snyderman C, Wang E, Gardner P, Valappil B, Fliss D, Ringel B, Gil Z, Na’ara S, Ooi E, Goldstein D, Muhanna N, Gentili F, De Almeida J. Psychometric testing of the Skull Base Inventory health-related quality of life questionnaire in a multi-institutional study of patients undergoing open and endoscopic surgery. Qual Life Res, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Demir I, Reyes C, Alrawashdeh W, Ceyhan G, Deborde S, Friess H, Görgülü K, Istvanffy R, Jungwirth D, Kuner R, Maryanovich M, Na’ara S, Renders S, Saloman J, Scheff N, Steenfadt H, Stupakov P, Thiel V, Verma D, Yilmaz B, White R, Wang T, Wong R, Frenette P, Gil Z, Davis B. Clinically Actional Strategies for Studying Neural Influences in Cancer. Cancer Cell, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Na'ara S, Sayegh W, Nassar N, Shinnawi S, Gil Z, Gordin A. Cold Versus Hot Adenoidectomy: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Na'ara S, Kaptzan B, Gil Z, Ostrovsky D. Endoscopic Septoplasty Versus Traditional Septoplasty for Treating Deviated Nasal Septum: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial. Ear Nose Throat J, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Na’ara S, Mukherjee A, Billan S, Gil Z. Contemporary multidisciplinary management of sinonasal mucosal melanoma. Onco Targets Ther, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Aashiq M, Silverman DA, Na'ara S, Takahashi H, Amit M. Radioiodine-Refractory Thyroid Cancer: Molecular Basis of Redifferentiation Therapies, Management, and Novel Therapies. Cancers, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Na'ara S, Mahameed K, Amit M, Cohen JT, Weiler-Sagie M, Albitsky I, Gil Z, Billan S. Efficacy of posttreatment radioiodine scanning in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Head Neck, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Na’ara S, Vainer I, Amit M, Gordin A. Foreign body aspiration in infants and older children, a comparative study. Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Friedman E, Vladovski E, Wasserman T, Milman N, Gil Z. RET, a targetable driver of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Int J Cancer, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Gil Z, Fridman E, Na'ara S. Reply to Patients with revised surgical resection margins are best studied as a distinct group. Cancer, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Hijab A, Turgeman I, Na'ara S, Long BS. Long Term Negative Predictive Value of Post-Treatment FDG PET/CT Scan in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. Clinics in Oncology, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Fridman E, Na'ara S, Gil Z. Reply to Are adjuvant radiotherapy outcomes really better in patients with early-stage oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma?. Cancer, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Na'ara S, Amit M, Gil Z. L1CAM induces perineural invasion of pancreas cancer cells by upregulation of metalloproteinase expression. Oncogene, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Fridman E, Na'ara S, Agarwal J, Amit M, Bachar G, Villaret AB, Brandao J, Cernea CR, Chaturvedi P, Clark J, Ebrahimi A, Fliss DM, Jonnalagadda S, Kohler HF, Kowalski LP, Kreppel M, Liao CT, Patel SG, Patel RS, Robbins KT, Shah JP, Shpitzer T, Yen TC, Zöller JE, Gil Z. International Consortium for Outcome Research in Head and Neck Cancer. The role of adjuvant treatment in early-stage oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: An international collaborative study. Cancer, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Hanna EY. Contemporary Treatment Approaches to Sinonasal Mucosal Melanoma. Curr Oncol Rep, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Francis D, Matanis W, Zolotov S, Sagie MW, Malkin L, Billan S, Charas T, Gil AZ. Radioactive Iodine Therapy Response In Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma is post-translationally regulated by the GPIT complex. Natl Cancer Inst, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Na'ara S, Amit M, Billan S, Cohen JT, Gil Z. Surgical Treatment Of Locally Advanced Well Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma. Harefuah, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Trejo-Leider L, Sharma K, Ramer N, Ramer I, Agbetoba A, Glick J, Yang X, Lei D, Bjoerndal K, Godballe C, Mücke T, Klaus-Dietrich W, Eckardt AM, Copelli C, Sesenna E, Palmer F, Ganly I, Gil Z. Defining the surgical margins of adenoid cystic carcinoma and their impact on outcome: An international collaborative study. Head Neck, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Leider-Trejo L, Binenbaum Y, Kulish N, Fridman E, Shabtai-Orbach A, Wong RJ, Gil Z. Upregulation of RET induces perineurial invasion of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Oncogene, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Gil Z. Mechanisms of Cancer Dissemination along Nerves. Nat Rev Cancer, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Na'ara S, Gil Z, Amit M. In Vitro Modeling of Cancerous Neural Invasion. J Vis Exp, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Amit M, Eran A, Billan S, Fridman E, Na'ara S, Charas T, Gil Z. Perineural Spread in Noncutaneous Head and Neck Cancer: New Insights into an Old Problem. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Na'ara S, Amit M, Gil Z, Billan S. Plasmacytoma of the Skull Base: A Meta-Analysis. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Na'ara S, Amit M, Fridman E, Gil Z. Contemporary Management of Recurrent Nodal Disease in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma. Rambam Maimonides Med J, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Leider-Trejo L, Akrish S, Cohen JT, Billan S, Gil Z. Improving the rate of negative margins after surgery for oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: A prospective randomized controlled study. Head Neck, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Binenbaum Y, Na'ara S, Gil Z. Gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Drug Resist Updat, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Sharma K, Ramer N, Ramer I, Agbetoba A, Glick J, Yang X, Lei D, Bjoerndal K, Godballe C, Mücke T, Klaus-Dietrich W, Eckardt AM, Copelli C, Sesenna E, Palmer F, Ganly I, Gil Z. Elective neck dissection in patients with head and neck adenoid cystic carcinoma: an international collaborative study. Ann Surg Oncol 22(4):1353-9, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Cohen JT, Gil Z, Binenbaum Y, Na'ara S, Amit M. An orthotopic mouse model of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Shabtay-Orbach A, Amit M, Binenbaum Y, Na'ara S, Gil Z. Paracrine regulation of glioma cells invasion by astrocytes is mediated by glial-derived neurotrophic factor. Int J Cancer, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Binenbaum Y, Billan S, Sviri G, Cohen JT, Gil Z. Treatment and Outcome of Patients with Skull Base Chordoma: A Meta-analysis. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Na'ara S, Amit M, Billan S, Cohen JT, Gil Z. Outcome of patients undergoing salvage surgery for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a meta-analysis. Ann Surg Oncol 21(9):3056-62, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Baruch EN, Gleber-Netto FO, Nagarajan P, Rao X, Akhter S, Eichwald T, Xie T, Balood M, Adewale A, Na'ara S, Sathishkumar HN, Shajedul I, Mattson BJ, Ferrarotto R, Wong MK, Davies MA, Jindal S, Basu S, Harwood C, Leigh I, Roversi K, Nikpoor AR, Ahmadi M, Ahmadi A, Gong D, Tallon De Torres P, Tao DL, Davidson TM, Ajami N, Futreal A, Rai K, Kochat V, Castillo M, Gunaratne P, Goepfert RP, Khushalani N, Wang J, Watowich SS, Calin GA, Migden MR, Yuan M, Liu N, Ye Y, Hwang WL, Vermeer P, D’Silva N, Bunimovich YL, Yaniv D, Burks JK, Gomez J, Dougherty PM, Tsai KY, Allison JP, Sharma P, Wargo J, Myers JN, Talbot S, Gross ND, Amit M. Cancer-induced nerve injury promotes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy. Nature.
Book Chapters
- Na'ara S, Gil Z. Assessment of surgical margins. In: Textbook of Oral Cancer - A Multidisciplinary Guide to Prevention, Diagnosis and Management. Springer-Nature, 2020.
- Na’ara S, Gil Z. Thyroid surgery. In: Diseases of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Plural Publishing, 2019.
- Amit M, Na'ara S, Gil Z. Robotics in Surgery. In: Atlas of Head and Neck Robotic Surgery, 2017.
Patient Reviews
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