Description of Research Expertise

Hereditary gastrointestinal cancer and polyposis syndromes. Cellular signaling and epigenetic mechanisms of tumorigenesis in colon cancer and gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

Selected Publications

Pulaski M, Dungan M, Weber M, Constantino G, Katona BW.: Low prevalence of gastric intestinal metaplasia and Helicobacter pylori on surveillance upper endoscopy in Lynch syndrome Fam Cancer 23 (1): 23-27,2024.

Stanich PP, Katona BW.: Rebranding Colonic Polyposis of Unknown Etiology: The Dawn of Idiopathic Adenomatous Polyposis J Clin Gastroenterol 58 (2): 107-108,2024.

Buckley KH, Beyries KA, Ryeom S, Yoon SS, Katona BW.: Establishment and Characterization of Patient-derived Gastric Organoids from Biopsies of Benign Gastric Body and Antral Epithelium J Vis Exp 203 : 2024.

1., Levy S., Cappadocia J., Anantharajah A., Apostolico T., Ebrahimzadeh J., Clark D.F., Heller M., Mann D., McKenna D., Mercado J., Powers J., Ross A., Spielman K., Wineland D., Valverde K., Long J.M., Katona B.W.: Patient preferences for selective exclusion of high-risk genes on multigene panel testing. Podium presentation at the Pennsylvania Association of Genetic Counselors Annual Spring Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA : 2024.

Mirda D., Dungan M., Ren Y., Li H., Katona B.W.: Factors associated with adherence to colonic surveillance recommendations in Lynch syndrome Poster presentation at Digestive Disease Week, Washington, DC : 2024.

Mirda D., Dungan M., Ren Y., Li H., Katona B.W.: Colorectal neoplasia detection rates in Lynch syndrome Oral presentation at Digestive Disease Week, Washington, DC : 2024.

Buckley K.H., Dungan M.E., Dinh K., Bennett K.E., Beyries K.A., Majer A.D., Niccum B.A., Karakasheva T.A., Hamilton K.E., Kochman M.L., Ginsberg G.G., Ahmad N., Katona B.W.: Gastric epithelium and patient-derived gastric organoids from BRCA1/2 carriers harbor increased proliferation and DNA damage Poster presentation at Digestive Disease Week, Washington, DC : 2024.

Lee H, Kipnis ST, Niman R, O'Brien SR, Eads JR, Katona BW, Pryma DA.: Prediction of (177)Lu-DOTATATE Therapy Outcomes in Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients Using Semi-Automatic Tumor Delineation on (68)Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT Cancers (Basel) 16 (1): 200,2023.

Katona BW, Stadler ZK.: Less is more: rethinking colorectal cancer resection strategies in Lynch syndrome Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 8 (12): 1061-1063,2023.

Anez-Bruzual I, Coughlin S, Clay D, Heiman J, Dungan M, Weber M, Almario CV, Leung G, Ahmad NA, Ginsberg GG, Kochman ML, Valverde KD, Long JM, Katona BW.: Assessment of the Psychosocial Impact of Pancreatic Cancer Surveillance in High-Risk Individuals Cancers (Basel) 16 (1): 86,2023.

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