Dr. Rao’s research focuses on exploring innovative treatments and strategies for breast cancer. Her research regarding surgiical treatment of patients with metastatic disease has been presented at the Society of Surgical Oncologists, accepted for publication in the Journal of Surgical Oncology and featured in Surgery News. She also performs tumescent mastectomy and is initiating research on it’s potential benefits. In addition, her study of ethnic differences in cancer have also been a subject of the first review of breast cancer in the American Asian-Indian population.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Surgical treatment for metastatic breast cancer
Treatment of locally advanced breast cancer
Benefits of tumescent mastectomy
Breast cancer in American Ethnic populations
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Ganai S, Kanumuri P, Rao R, Alexander A, "Local Recurrence following Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery for Rectal Polyps and Early Cancers" Journal of Surgical Oncology, (in press)
Ganai S, Kanumuri P, Rao R, Alexander A, "Mapping the Rectum: Spatial Analysis of Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgical Outcomes Using Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology" Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, (in press)
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
Jones T, Jones S, Shukla R, "Short latency evoked potentials in the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)" Journal of Comparative Physiology, 180:631-638, 1997
Rao R, Kuerer H, Hunt KK, Hortogagyi G, Singletary SE, Ames FC, Meric-Berstam F, Ross MI, Geig BW, Babiera GV, "Progression-Free Survival After Surgical Extirpation of the Intact Primary in Patients with Stage IV Breast Cancer" Journal of Surgical Oncology, (in press)
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