PUBLICATIONS
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Pierce LJ, Levin AM, Rebbeck TR, Ben-David MA, Friedman E, Solin LJ, Harris EE,
Gaffney DK, Haffty BG, Dawson LA, Narod SA, Olivotto IA, Eisen A, Whelan TJ,
Olopade OI, Isaacs C, Merajver SD, Wong JS, Garber JE, Weber BL. Multi-Institutional
10-Year Results of Breast-Conserving Surgery and Radiotherapy in BRCA1/2-Associated
Stage I/II Breast Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Jun 1;24(16):2437-43
Ben-David MA, Kleer CG, Paramagul C, Griffith KA, Pierce LJ. Is lobular carcinoma in
situ as a component of breast carcinoma a risk factor for local failure after breastconserving therapy? Results of a matched pair analysis. Cancer. 2006 Jan 1;106(1):28-34
Wolf I, Sadetzki S, Gluck I, Oberman B, Ben-David M, Papa MZ, Catane R, Kaufman B.
Links Association between diabetes mellitus and adverse characteristics
of breast cancer at presentation. Eur J Cancer. 2006 May; 42(8):1077-82
Merav A. Ben-David, Kent A. Griffith, Eyad Abu-Isa, Theodore S. Lawrence, James
Knol, Mark Zalupski, Edgar Ben-Josef. External-Beam Radiotherapy for
Localized Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys;
Vol/66, No 3, pp772-779, 2006
Merav A. Ben-David, Maximiliano Diamante, Jeffrey D. Radawski, K. A.Vineberg,
Robin R Marsh, Cynthia Stroup, Carol-Anne Murdoch-Kinch, Samuel R.
Zwetchkenbaum, Avraham Eisbruch. Lack of osteoradionecrosis of the mandible after
intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer: Likely contributions of both
dental care and improved dose distributions. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys; 2007
1;68(2):396-402
Moran J.M. Balter J.M. Ben-David M.A. Marsh R.B. Van Herk M. Pierce L.J.
Short-term displacement and reproducibility of the breast and nodal targets under active
breathing control. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 May 1;68(1):253-8
Merav Ben David, Avraham Eisbruch Delineating Neck Targets for IntensityModulated Radiation Therapy of Head and Neck Cancer: What Have We Learned from
Marginal Recurrences? Front Radiat Ther Oncol. Basel, Karger, 2007, vol. 40, pp 193–
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Ben-David MA, Sturtz DE, Griffith KA, Douglas KR, Hayman JA, Lichter AS, Pierce
LJ. Long-term results of conservative surgery and radiotherapy for ductal carcinoma in
situ using lung density correction: the University of Michigan experience. Breast J. 2007
Jul-Aug;13(4):392-400
Pinsky RW, Rebner M, Pierce LJ, Ben-David MA, Vicini F, Hunt KA, Helvie MA.
Recurrent cancer after breast-conserving surgery with radiation therapy for ductal
carcinoma in situ: mammographic features, method of detection, and stage of recurrence.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Jul;189(1):140-4
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Electronic Articles
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Merav A Ben-David, Lori J. pierce. Accelerated Partial Breast Radiation:
Good for All Early Stage Breast Cancer? Commentary, American Society of Breast
Disease Advisor Issue 3, 2005
Book Chapters
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Cancers of the Head and Neck. Mary Feng, MD; Merav Ben-David, MD; Avi Eisbruch,
MD. The book: “Radiation Therapy Planning", second edition (in press)
Local Treatment Issues in Women with Hereditary Breast Cancer. Merav Ben-David,
MD, Lori J. Pierce, MD. The book: "Hereditary Breast Cancer" Edited by Timothy
Rebbeck and Claudine Isaac (in press)
Books
1. Volk, Ruti Malis. The Medical Library Association Guide to Cancer Information:
Authoritative, Patient-Friendly, Print and Electronic Resources. New York: NealSchuman Publishers, 2007. Medical reviewer: Merav A. Ben-David, MD.
Abstracts
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R Weitzen, L Zach, B Kaufman, T Tichler, P Rath, R Pfeffer, J Baram, M Ben-David, S.
Rizel, R Catane: High Incidence of Brain metastasis (BM) in Patients on Trastuzumab
(H) for Advanced Breast Cancer. ASCO, Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2002.
Rizel S, Ben-David M, Brenner HJ, Stemmer SM; Institute of Oncology, Rabin Med
Center, Beilinson, Petach Tikwa, Israel; Institute of Oncology Sheba Medical Center,
Ramat Gan, Israel Doxorubicin 75mg/M2 followed by cyclophosphamide, methotrexate,
and fluorouracil (A=> CMF) in the adjuvant treatment of node positive breast cancer:
Outcome and toxicity in 136 patients. 2004 (Post-Meeting Edition) Vol 22, No 14S 2004:
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Jean Moran, Merav Ben-David, Dale W. Litzenberg, Benedick A. Fraass, Impact of
IMRT delivery technique for partial breast irradiation. 2004, ASTRO meeting, abstract
and presentation
Merav A. Ben-David, Robin B. Marsh, Jean M. Moran, James M. Balter, Kent A.
Griffith, James A Hayman, Lori J. Pierce. Partial Breast Irradiation (PBI) Using IMRT
compared with 3D conformal PBI and Whole Breast Radiotherapy for Early Stage Breast
Cancer: The difference is in the normal tissue. Abstract, ASTRO 2007.
Jean M. Moran, Robin B. Marsh, Merav Ben-David, James M. Balter, Marc L. Kessler,
Ken Jee, James Hayman, and Lori J. Pierce. Evaluation of deep inspiration breath hold
and optimization techniques for loco-regional breast cancer treatment. 2005, ASTRO
meeting, poster and presentation
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Hebrew papers
Regular bi-monthly articles, "News in Oncology". Medical, the Israeli Medicine magazine
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IMRT – new radiation techniques (Februar 2006)
Partial breast irradiation (April 2006)
The stem cell cancer theory (June 2006)
New targeted therapy in cancer (August 2006)
Renal cancer – Delaying the disease (March 2007)
Anemia in cancer: to treat or not to treat (May 2007)
Radiation sensitizers (October 2007)
Radiation protectants (December 2008)
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