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Geoffrey Young – Miami Florida

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Geoffrey Young

Chief of Head and Neck Surgery, Miami Cancer Institute

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8900 North Kendall Drive
Miami, Florida 33176
United States
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Dr. Young is an international leader in the field of head and neck surgical oncology.  He  specializes in minimally invasive, robotic and complex open surgery for both cancer and benign head and neck tumors.  He also an expert in the field of melanoma and other head and neck skin cancers. Dr. Young has authored numerous scientific articles and has been an invited speaker at national and international  meetings. His research interests include individualized medicine and surgical innovations for the management of head and neck  malignancies.

As part of the Memorial Sloane Kettering Alliance, Miami Cancer Institute has access to numerous clinical trials

Selected Bibliography

  1. Peer-reviewed Articles
    1. Young GD, Winokur TS, Cerfolio RJ, Van Tine BA, Chow LT, Okoh V, Garver RI Jr. Differential expression and biodistribution of cytokeratin 18 and desmoplakins in non-small cell lung carcinoma subtypes. Lung Cancer. 2002 May; 36(2):133-41. PMID:11955647

     
    2. Okoh V, Young GD, Winokur TS, Garver RI Jr. A novel assay for the quantification of invasion from raft cultures of lung carcinomas. Clin Exp Metastasis. 2004; 21(1):1-6. PMID:15065596

     
    3. Rosenthal E, McCrory A, Talbert M, Young G, Murphy-Ullrich J, Gladson C. Elevated expression of TGF-beta1 in head and neck cancer-associated fibroblasts. Mol Carcinog. 2004 Jun; 40(2):116-21. PMID:15170816       DOI:10.1002/mc.20024

     
    4. Young GD, Murphy-Ullrich JE. Molecular interactions that confer latency to transforming growth factor-beta. J Biol Chem. 2004 Sep 3; 279(36):38032-9. Epub 2004 Jun 18. PMID:15208302       DOI:10.1074/jbc.M405658200

     
    5. Young GD, Murphy-Ullrich JE. The tryptophan-rich motifs of the thrombospondin type 1 repeats bind VLAL motifs in the latent transforming growth factor-beta complex. J Biol Chem. 2004 Nov 12; 279(46):47633-42. Epub 2004 Sep 01. PMID:15342643       DOI:10.1074/jbc.M404918200

     
    6. Taube JM, Anders RA, Young GD, Xu H, Sharma R, McMiller TL, Chen S, Klein AP, Pardoll DM, Topalian SL, Chen L. Colocalization of inflammatory response with B7-h1 expression in human melanocytic lesions supports an adaptive resistance mechanism of immune escape. Sci Transl Med. 2012 Mar 28; 4(127):127ra37. PMID:22461641       PMCID:3568523       DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.3003689

     
    7. Lyford-Pike S, Peng S, Young GD, Taube JM, Westra WH, Akpeng B, Bruno TC, Richmon JD, Wang H, Bishop JA, Chen L, Drake CG, Topalian SL, Pardoll DM, Pai SI. Evidence for a role of the PD-1:PD-L1 pathway in immune resistance of HPV-associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Res. 2013 Mar 15; 73(6):1733-41. Epub 2013 Jan 03. PMID:23288508       PMCID:3602406       DOI:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-2384

     
    8. Taube JM, Young GD, McMiller TL, Chen S, Salas JT, Pritchard TS, Xu H, Meeker AK, Fan J, Cheadle C, Berger AE, Pardoll DM, Topalian SL. Differential expression of immune-regulatory genes associated with PD-L1 display in melanoma: Implications for PD-1 pathway blockade. Clin Cancer Res. 2015; 21(17):3969-76. PMID:25944800

     
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    		 Gamez ME, Jeans E, Hinni ML, Moore E, Young G, Ma D, McGee L, Buras MR, Patel SH. Outcomes and patterns of failure of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the larynx: The Mayo Clinic experience. Laryngoscope 2017 Jul 06 Epub 2017 July 06 PMID:28681992   DOI:10.1002/lary.26725

     

    Pasalic D, Funk RK, García JJ, Price DL, Price KA, Harmsen WS, Patel SH, Young GD, Foote RL, Moore EJ, Ma DJ. Magnitude of benefit for adjuvant radiotherapy following minimally invasive surgery in intermediate to high risk HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Oral Oncol. 2018 Jul;82:181-186. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2018.05.026. Epub 2018 Jun 6. PMID: 29909895

     

    Garner HW, Paz-Fumagalli R, Young GD. Preoperative Localization of Recurrence in the Thyroidectomy Bed Using a Radioactive Iodine125 Seed. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018 Aug;159(2):394-397. doi: 10.1177/0194599818772049. Epub 2018 Apr 24 PMID: 29685086

     

    Kim D, Young G (2019) Case Report: Extra-Pharyngeal Ingested Foreign Body (Fish Bone). J Head Neck Surg 2019 2(1):42-44. DOI: 10.36959/605/536