Medical Oncology

Ivy Paige Altomare, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Campus mail 3100 Tower Blvd, Box 3395, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 419-5002
Email address ivy.altomare@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • Fellow in Hematology and Oncology, Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2004 - 2007
  • Medical Resident, Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2001 - 2004
  • M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 2001

Grants

Publications

Wilson, Lauren E., Melissa A. Greiner, Ivy Altomare, Jason Rotter, and Michaela A. Dinan. “Rapid rise in the cost of targeted cancer therapies for Medicare patients with solid tumors from 2006 to 2015.” J Geriatr Oncol 12, no. 3 (April 2021): 375–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2020.11.007.

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33250425
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Strickler, John H., Christel N. Rushing, Hope E. Uronis, Michael A. Morse, Donna Niedzwiecki, Gerard C. Blobe, Ashley N. Moyer, et al. “Cabozantinib and Panitumumab for RAS Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.” Oncologist, January 19, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/onco.13678.

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33469991
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McGrath, Leah J., Karynsa Kilpatrick, Robert A. Overman, Diane Reams, Anjali Sharma, Ivy Altomare, Jeffrey Wasser, and M Alan Brookhart. “Treatment Patterns Among Adults with Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia Diagnosed in Hematology Clinics in the United States.” In Clin Epidemiol, 12:435–45, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S229266.

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32440222
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Strickler, John H., Christel N. Rushing, Donna Niedzwiecki, Abigail McLeod, Ivy Altomare, Hope E. Uronis, S David Hsu, et al. “A phase Ib study of capecitabine and ziv-aflibercept followed by a phase II single-arm expansion cohort in chemotherapy refractory metastatic colorectal cancer.” Bmc Cancer 19, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 1032. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6234-8.

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31675952
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Zullig, Leah L., Gretchen Kimmick, Valerie Smith, Katie Little, Hayden B. Bosworth, Sarah Gonzales, Megan M. Oakes, Rebecca A. Shelby, Lynda Owen, and Ivy P. Altomare. “Using a geriatric oncology assessment to link with services (GOAL).” J Geriatr Oncol 10, no. 1 (January 2019): 164–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2018.06.004.

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29958815
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Chino, Fumiko, Jeffrey M. Peppercorn, Christel Rushing, Jonathan Nicolla, Arif H. Kamal, Ivy Altomare, Greg Samsa, and S Yousuf Zafar. “Going for Broke: A Longitudinal Study of Patient-Reported Financial Sacrifice in Cancer Care.” J Oncol Pract 14, no. 9 (September 2018): e533–46. https://doi.org/10.1200/JOP.18.00112.

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30138052
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Li, Shuling, Julia T. Molony, Karynsa Cetin, Jeffrey S. Wasser, and Ivy Altomare. “Rate of bleeding-related episodes in elderly patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia: a retrospective cohort study.” Curr Med Res Opin 34, no. 2 (February 2018): 209–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007995.2017.1360852.

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28748715
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Chino, Fumiko, Jeffrey M. Peppercorn, Christel Rushing, Arif H. Kamal, Ivy Altomare, Greg Samsa, and S Yousuf Zafar. “Out-of-Pocket Costs, Financial Distress, and Underinsurance in Cancer Care.” Jama Oncol 3, no. 11 (November 1, 2017): 1582–84. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.2148.

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28796862
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Lin, Junji, Xinke Zhang, Xiaoyan Li, David Chandler, Ivy Altomare, Jeffrey S. Wasser, and Karynsa Cetin. “Cost of Bleeding-related Episodes in Adult Patients With Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study of Administrative Claims Data for Commercial Payers in the United States.” Clin Ther 39, no. 3 (March 2017): 603-609.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinthera.2017.01.023.

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28190600
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Altomare, I., K. Cetin, S. Wetten, and J. S. Wasser. “Rate of bleeding-related episodes in adult patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia: A retrospective cohort study using a large administrative medical claims database in the US.” Clinical Epidemiology 8 (June 20, 2016): 231–39. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S105888.

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