Medical Oncology

Tian Zhang, MD

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine
Campus mail DUMC 103861, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 668-4667
Email address tian.zhang2@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • Fellowship in Hematology-Oncology, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2012 - 2015
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2009 - 2012
  • M.H.S., Duke University School of Medicine, 2019
  • M.D., Harvard Medical School, 2009

Grants

Publications

Pritchard, Jessica E., Lauren E. Wilson, Samuel M. Miller, Melissa A. Greiner, Harvey Jay Cohen, Deborah R. Kaye, Tian Zhang, and Michaela A. Dinan. “Association between cognitive impairment and oral anticancer agent use in older patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.” J Am Geriatr Soc, May 2, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17826.

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35499667
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Brown, Landon C., Susan Halabi, Jason A. Somarelli, Michael Humeniuk, Yuan Wu, Taofik Oyekunle, Lauren Howard, et al. “A phase 2 trial of avelumab in men with aggressive-variant or neuroendocrine prostate cancer.” Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis, March 15, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-022-00524-7.

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35292724
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Harrison, Michael R., Paul G. Davis, Michel G. Khouri, David B. Bartlett, Rajan T. Gupta, Andrew J. Armstrong, Megan A. McNamara, et al. “A randomized controlled trial comparing changes in fitness with or without supervised exercise in patients initiated on enzalutamide and androgen deprivation therapy for non-metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (EXTEND).” Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 25, no. 1 (March 2022): 58–64. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-022-00519-4.

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35273377
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McKay, Rana R., Pedro C. Barata, Andrew Elliott, Mehmet Asim Bilen, Earle F. Burgess, Sourat Darabi, Nancy Ann Dawson, et al. “Molecular alterations across sites of metastasis in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC).” In Journal of Clinical Oncology, 40:287–287. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2022.40.6_suppl.287.

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Saidian, Ava, Kevin Hakimi, Justine Panian, Archana Ajmera, Pedro C. Barata, Stephanie A. Berg, Steven Lee Chang, et al. “Impact of neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy on primary tumor size and complexity: Correlation with surgical quality and short term oncological outcomes.” In Journal of Clinical Oncology, 40:390–390. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2022.40.6_suppl.390.

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Dzimitrowicz, Hannah Elizabeth, Lauren E. Wilson, Bradford E. Jackson, Lisa Spees, Christopher Baggett, Melissa A. Greiner, Deborah Kaye, et al. “Factors associated with the quality of end-of-life care for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.” In Journal of Clinical Oncology, 40:300–300. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2022.40.6_suppl.300.

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Panian, Justine, Ava Saidian, Kevin Hakimi, Archana Ajmera, Pedro C. Barata, Stephanie A. Berg, Steven Lee Chang, et al. “Pathologic outcomes at cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) following immunotherapy (IO) for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).” In Journal of Clinical Oncology, 40:334–334. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2022.40.6_suppl.334.

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Kaye, Deborah R., Lauren E. Wilson, Melissa A. Greiner, Lisa P. Spees, Jessica E. Pritchard, Tian Zhang, Craig E. Pollack, et al. “Patient, provider, and hospital factors associated with oral anti-neoplastic agent initiation and adherence in older patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.” J Geriatr Oncol, February 3, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2022.01.008.

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35125336
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Schöffski, Patrick, Daniel S. W. Tan, Miguel Martín, María Ochoa-de-Olza, John Sarantopoulos, Richard D. Carvajal, Chrisann Kyi, et al. “Phase I/II study of the LAG-3 inhibitor ieramilimab (LAG525) ± anti-PD-1 spartalizumab (PDR001) in patients with advanced malignancies.” J Immunother Cancer 10, no. 2 (February 2022). https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2021-003776.

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35217575
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Miller, Samuel M., Lauren E. Wilson, Melissa A. Greiner, Jessica E. Pritchard, Tian Zhang, Deborah R. Kaye, Harvey Jay Cohen, Robert D. Becher, Linda L. Maerz, and Michaela A. Dinan. “Evaluation of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.” J Geriatr Oncol, January 4, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2021.12.012.

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34996724
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