- 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
Rachel C Jankowitz, MD
About me
- Director, Rena Rowan Breast Center
- Section Chief, Breast Cancer, Hematology-Oncology
- Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)
My education and training
- Medical School: Temple University School of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Fellowship: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Medical Oncology, 2009
- American Society of Clinical Oncology, National
- Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance (LBCA), International
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), National
- Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium, National
- Penn Breast Cancer Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Hunter NB, Parsons HA, Cope L, Canzoniero JV, Navarro FCP, El-Refai S, Anampa JD, Sparano JA, Rimawi M, Storniolo AM, Mainor C, Nanda R, DeMichele A, Gupta GP, Stringer-Reasor EJ, Lynce F, Cobain EF, Puhalla S, Jankowitz R, Rexer B, Mayer I, Hwang ES, Blackwell K, El Ayass W, Lee Y, Tweed C, Wilkinson M, Pennisi A, Sun B, Wright P, Gralow JR, Chen R, Boyle SM, Stearns V, Wolff AC, Park BH. The Pathologic Response Evaluation and Detection in Circulating Tumor-DNA Study: Ultrasensitive Circulating Tumor-DNA Assessment of Breast Cancer Minimal Residual Disease , J Clin Oncol: 2026
Gradishar WJ, Moran MS, Abraham J, Abramson V, Aft R, Agnese D, Allison KH, Anderson B, Bailey J, Burstein HJ, Chen N, Chew H, Dang C, Elias AD, Giordano SH, Goetz MP, Jankowitz RC, Javid SH, Krishnamurthy J, Leitch AM, Lyons J, McCloskey S, McShane M, Mortimer J, Patel SA, Rosenberger LH, Rugo HS, Santa-Maria CA, Schneider BP, Smith ML, Soliman H, Stringer-Reasor EM, Telli ML, Wei M, Wisinski KB, Yellala A, Yeung KT, Young JS, Schonfeld R, Kumar R. NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Breast Cancer, Version 5.2025 , J Natl Compr Canc Netw, 23(11): 2025,426-436
Kai Ding, Lyuqin Chen, Kevin M Levine, Matthew J Sikora, Nilgun Tasdemir, David Dabbs, Rachel Jankowitz, Rachel Hazan, Osama Shah, Jenny Atkinson, Adrian V Lee, Steffi Oesterreich FGFR4 in endocrine resistance: overexpression and estrogen regulation without direct causative role , Breast Cancer Res Treat, 211(2): 2025,501-515
Peter Schmid 1, Javier Cortes 1, Rebecca Dent 1, Heather McArthur 1, Lajos Pusztai 1, Sherko Kümmel 1, Carsten Denkert 1, Yeon Hee Park 1, Rina Hui 1, Nadia Harbeck 1, Masato Takahashi 1, Seock-Ah Im 1, Michael Untch 1, Peter A Fasching 1, Marie-Ange Mouret-Reynier 1, Theodoros Foukakis 1, Marta Ferreira 1, Fatima Cardoso 1, Xuan Zhou 1, Vassiliki Karantza 1, Konstantinos Tryfonidis 1, Gursel Aktan 1, Joyce O'Shaughnessy 1; KEYNOTE-522 Investigators Overall Survival with Pembrolizumab in Early-Stage Triple-Negative Breast Cancer , N Engl J Med, 391(21): 2024,1981-1991
Gradishar WJ, Moran MS, Abraham J, Abramson V, Aft R, Agnese D, Allison KH, Anderson B, Bailey J, Burstein HJ, Chen N, Chew H, Dang C, Elias AD, Giordano SH, Goetz MP, Jankowitz RC, Javid SH, Krishnamurthy J, Leitch AM, Lyons J, McCloskey S, McShane M, Mortimer J, Patel SA, Rosenberger LH, Rugo HS, Santa-Maria C, Schneider BP, Smith ML, Soliman H, Stringer-Reasor EM, Telli ML, Wei M, Wisinski KB, Yeung KT, Young JS, Schonfeld R, Kumar R. Breast Cancer, Version 3.2024, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology , J Natl Compr Canc Netw, 22(5): 2024,331-357.
Oesterreich S, Pate L, Lee AV, Chen F, Jankowitz RC, Mukhtar R, Metzger O, Sikora MJ, Li CI, Sotiriou C, Shah OS, Koorman T, Ulaner G, Reis-Filho JS, Davidson NM, Van Baelen K, Hutcheson L, Freeney S, Migyanka F, Turner C, Derksen P, Bear T, Desmedt C. International survey on invasive lobular breast cancer identifies priority research questions , NPJ Breast Cancer, 10(1): 2024,61
Tarantino P, Tayob N, Villacampa G, Dang C, Yardley DA, Isakoff SJ, Valero V, Faggen M, Mulvey T, Bose R, Weckstein D, Wolff AC, Reeder-Hayes K, Rugo HS, Ramaswamy B, Zuckerman D, Hart L, Gadi VK, Constantine M, Cheng K, Garrett AM, Marcom PK, Albain K, DeFusco P, Tung N, Ardman B, Nanda R, Jankowitz RC, Rimawi M, Abramson V, Pohlmann PR, Van Poznak C, Forero-Torres A, Liu MC, Ruddy KJ, Waks AG, DeMeo M, Burstein HJ, Partridge AH, Dell'Orto P, Russo L, Krause E, Newhouse DJ, Kurt BB, Mittendorf EA, Schneider B, Prat A, Winer EP, Krop IE, Tolaney SM; Consortium of the TBCRC Translational Investigators; TBCRC Translational Investigators. Adjuvant Trastuzumab Emtansine Versus Paclitaxel Plus Trastuzumab for Stage I Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer: 5-Year Results and Correlative Analyses From ATEMPT , J. Clin Oncol, 42(31): 2024,3652-3665.
Jacobs SA, Wang Y, Abraham J, Feng H, Montero AJ, Lipchik C, Finnigan M, Jankowitz RC, Salkeni MA, Maley SK, Puhalla SL, Piette F, Quinn K, Chang K, Nagy RJ, Allegra CJ, Vehec K, Wolmark N, Lucas PC, Srinivasan A, Pogue-Geile KL. NSABP FB-10: a phase Ib/II trial evaluating ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) with neratinib in women with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer , Breast Cancer Res, 26(1): 2024,69
Ding K, Chen L, Levine K, Sikora M, Tasdemir N, Dabbs D, Jankowitz R, Hazan R, Shah OS, Atkinson JM, Lee AV, Oesterreich S. Estrogen regulation and functional role of FGFR4 in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer , bioRxiv [Preprint]: 2024
Sanft TB, Wong J, O'Neal B, Siuliukina N, Jankowitz RC, Pegram MD, Fox JR, Zhang Y, Treuner K, O'Shaughnessy JA. Impact of the Breast Cancer Index for Extended Endocrine Decision-Making: First Results of the Prospective BCI Registry Study. , J Natl Compr Canc Netw. , 22(2): 2024,99-107