- Breast cancer
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- Invasive breast cancer
- Invasive ductal carcinoma
- Invasive lobular carcinoma
- Local tumor recurrence
- Male breast cancer
- Triple negative breast cancer
- Triple positive breast cancer
Igor Makhlin, MD
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)
My education and training
- Medical School: Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
- Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
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Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Medical Oncology, 2021
- Internal Medicine, 2018
- American College of Physicians, National
- American Medical Association, National
- American Society of Clinical Oncology, National
- Gilead Sciences, National
- Pennsylvania Medical Society, Local
- Penn Breast Cancer Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
DeMichele A, Clark AS, Shea E, Bayne LJ, Sterner CJ, Rohn K, Dwyer S, Pan TC, Nivar I, Chen Y, Wileyto P, Berry LR, Deluca S, Savage J, Makhlin I, Pant DK, Martin H, Egunsola A, Mears N, Goodspeed BL, Chislock EM, Graves J, Wang J, Shih N, Belka GK, Berry D, Nayak A, Feldman M, Chodosh LA. Targeting dormant tumor cells to prevent recurrent breast cancer: a randomized phase 2 trial , Nat Med: 2025
Jacob B. Reibel, Christopher A. D’Avella, Igor Makhlin2, Mengru Wang, Maneet Kaur, Yunzhi Qian, Rebecca L. Maniago, Ivy P. Altomare, Lawrence N. Shulman Guideline concordant osimertinib and durvalumab in two US non-small cell lung cancer cohorts. , ASCO Quality Care Symposium: 2025
Igor Makhlin Dissecting Biologic Risk Using Genomic Assays - Implications for Extended Endocrine Therapy and Beyond , JAMA Network Open - In Press: 2024
Makhlin I, Fallowfield L, Henry NL, Burstein HJ, Somerfield MR, DeMichele A. Targeted Therapies, Sequencing Strategies, and Beyond in Metastatic Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: ASCO Guideline Clinical Insights , JCO Oncol Pract: 2024
Makhlin I, Demissei BG, D'Agostino R, Hundley WG, Baleanu-Gogonea C, Wilcox NS, Chen A, Smith AM, O'Connell NS, Januzzi JL, Lesser GJ, Scherrer-Crosbie M, Ibáñez B, Tang WHW, Ky B. Statins Do Not Significantly Affect Oxidative Nitrosative Stress Biomarkers in the PREVENT Randomized Clinical Trial , Clin Cancer Res, 30: 2024,2370-2376
Debashish Tripathy, Kashif Ali, Laila Agrawal, Sami M. Ali, Sibel Blau, Margaret Block, Michael A. Danso, Denise Yardley, Jay Andersen, Adrienne Gropper Waks, Priya Jayachandran, Igor Makhlin, Petros Nikolinakos, Richard Zuniga, Joyce O'Shaughnessy, Sandra Aung, Janice M. Lu, Kevin Kalinsky, William John Gradishar, Hope S. Rugo ACE-BREAST-03: A phase 2 trial evaluating ARX788, an anti-HER2 antibody drug conjugate (ADC), for the treatment of HER2+ metastatic breast cancer (mBC) in patients who have been previously treated with trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) , Journal of Clinical Oncology, 42(16_suppl): 2024
A. DeMichele A.S. Clark L. Bayne K. Rohn I. Nivar P. Wileyto L. Berry S. DeLuca J. Savage I. Makhlin T.C. Pan J. Graves G. Belka J. Wang N. Shih D. Berry A. Nayak M. Feldman L. Chodosh 244MO A phase II trial targeting disseminated dormant tumor cells with hydroxychloroquine, everolimus or the combination to prevent recurrent breast cancer (“CLEVER”) , ESMO Abstract, 34: 2023,S281
Fradley MG, Nguyen NHK, Madnick D, Chen Y, DeMichele A, Makhlin I, Dent S, Lefebvre B, Carver J, Upshaw JN, DeRemer D, Ky B, Guha A, Gong Y. Adverse Cardiovascular Events Associated With Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4/6 Inhibitors in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer , J Am Heart Assoc, 12: 2023,e029361
Chen S, Paul MR, Sterner CJ, Belka GK, Wang D, Xu P, Sreekumar A, Pan TC, Pant DK, Makhlin I, DeMichele A, Mesaros C, Chodosh LA. PAQR8 promotes breast cancer recurrence and confers resistance to multiple therapies , Breast Cancer Res, 25(1): 2023,1
Kaufmann T, Chang P, Rosenberg SM, Frank E, Hobbs B, Bayne LJ, Nivar I, Goodspeed BL, Rohn KM, Kugler EM, Fox K, Domchek SM, Bradbury A, Shah PD, Knollman h, Jankowitz RC, Makhlin I, Clark AS, Chodosh LA, DeMichele A, Goodfellow KE. P5-08-01: Pilot study of a patient-reported outcome (PRO) measurement strategy to determine impact of screening for minimal residual disease (MRD) in high-risk breast cancer survivors , San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2022, San Antonio, TX.: 2022