Ping Liu, M.S.

Senior Statistical Analyst

Degrees

M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
B.S. in Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Publications

Davies MA, Liu P, McIntyre S, Kim KB, Papadopoulos N, Hwu WJ, Hwu P, Bedikian A. Prognostic factors for survival in melanoma patients with brain metastases. Cancer Oct 19, 2010. [Epub ahead of print]

Rodney AJ, Tannir NM, Siefker-Radtke AO, Liu P, Walsh GL, Millikan RE, Swisher SG, Tu SM, Pagliaro LC. Survival outcomes for men with mediastinal germ-cell tumors: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center experience. Urologic Oncology 2010 Oct 6. [Epub ahead of print]

Ji Y, Liu P, Li Y, Bekele BN. A modified toxicity probability interval method for dose-finding trials. Clinical Trials 2010; 7(6):653-663.

Bartholomeusz C, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Kazansky A, Krishnamurthy S, Liu P, Yuan LX, Yamasaki F, Liu S, Hayashi N, Zhang D, Esteva FJ, Hortobagyi GN, Ueno NT. PEA-15 inhibits tumorigenesis in an MDA-MB-468 triple-negative breast cancer xenograft model through increased cytoplasmic localization of activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase. Clinical Cancer Research 2010; 16(6):1802-1811.

Caudle AS, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Hunt KK, Liu P, Pusztai L, Symmans WF, Kuerer HM, Mittendorf EA, Hortobagyi GN, Meric-Bernstam F. Predictors of tumor progression during neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2010; 28(11):1821-1828.

De Giorgi U, Mego M, Rohren EM, Liu P, Handy BC, Reuben JM, Macapinlac HA, Hortobagyi GN, Cristofanilli M, Ueno NT. 18F-FDG PET/CT findings and circulating tumor cell counts in the monitoring of systemic therapies for bone metastases from breast cancer. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2010; 51(8):1213-1218.

Glazer ES, Tseng JF, Al-Refaie W, Solorzano CC, Liu P, Willborn KA, Abdalla EK, Vauthey JN, Curley SA. Long-term survival after surgical management of neuroendocrine hepatic metastases. HPB (Oxford) 2010; 12(6):427-433.

Milito MA, Kontoyiannis DP, Lewis RE, Liu P, Mawlawi OR, Truong MT, Marom EM. Influence of host immunosuppression on CT findings in invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Medical Mycology 2010; 48(6):817-823.

Okorie CO, Salia M, Liu P, Pisters LL. Modified suprapubic prostatectomy without irrigation is safe. Urology 2010; 75(3):701-705, 2010.

Badgwell BD, Smith K, Liu P, Bruera E, Curley SA, Cormier JN. Indicators of surgery and survival in oncology inpatients requiring surgical evaluation for palliation. Support Care Cancer 2009; 17(6):727-734.

Kim KB, Legha SS, Gonzalez R, Anderson CM, Johnson MM, Liu P, Papadopoulos NE, Eton O, Plager C, Buzaid AC, Prieto VG, Hwu WJ, Frost AM, Alvarado G, Hwu P, Ross MI, Gershenwald JE, Lee JE, Mansfield PF, Benjamin RS, Bedikian AY. A randomized phase III trial of biochemotherapy versus interferon- -2b for adjuvant therapy in patients at high risk for melanoma recurrence. Melanoma Research 2009; 19(1):42-49.

Hwang CS, Prieto VG, Diwan AH, Lizee G, Ellerhorst JA, Ekmekcioglu S, Liu P, Eton O, Kinney SA, Grimm EA, Hwu P, Kim KB. Changes in p-ERK1/2 and p-AKT Expression in Melanoma Lesions after Imatinib Treatment. Melanoma Research 2008; 18(4):241-245.

Kassouf W, Spiess PE, Brown GA, Liu P, Grossman HB, Dinney CP, Kamat AM. Prostatic urethral biopsy has limited usefulness in counseling patients regarding final urethral margin status during orthotopic neobladder reconstruction. Journal of Urology 2008; 180(1):164-167; discussion 167.

Spiess PE, Pisters LL, Liu P, Pettaway CA, Kamat AM, Gomez JA, Tannir NM. Malignant transformation of testicular teratoma: A chemoresistant phenotype. Urologic Oncology 2008; 26(6):595-599.

Fife KH, Meng TC, Ferris DG, Liu P. Effect of resiquimod 0.01% gel on lesion healing and viral shedding when applied to genital herpes lesions. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2008; 52(2):477-482.

Spiess PE, Tannir NM, Brown GA, Liu P, Tu SM, Evans JG, Pisters LL. Recurrence in nonseminomatous germ cell testis tumor patients with no viable tumor at postchemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Urology 2007; 70(6):1173-1178.

Wrede B, Liu P, Wolff JEA. Chemotherapy improves the survival of patients with choroid plexus carcinoma: a meta-analysis of individual cases with choroid plexus tumors. Journal of Neuro-oncology 2007; 85(3):345-351.

Spiess PE, Tannir NM, Tu SM, Brown GA, Liu P, Kamat AM, Wood CG, Evans JG, Pisters LL. Viable germ cell tumor at postchemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection: can we predict patients at risk of disease progrssion?. Cancer 2007; 110(12):2700-2708.

Nakayama K, Tannir NM, Liu P, Wathen JK, Cheng YC, Champlin RE, Ueno NT. Natural history of metastatic renal cell carcinoma in patients who underwent consultation for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2007; 13(8): 975-985.

Spiess PE, Brown GA, Liu P, Tu S-M, Tannir NM, Evans J, Kamat AM, Hutchinson L, Pisters LL. Recurrence pattern and proposed surveillance protocol in patients following postchemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Journal of Urology 2007; 177(1):131-138.

Spiess PE, Kassouf W, Brown GA, Kamat A, Liu P, Tu S-M, Tannir NM, Gomez J, Evans J, Pisters LL. Surgical management of growing teratoma syndrome: The MD Anderson Cancer Center experience. Journal of Urology 2007; 177(4):1330-1334; discussion 1334.

Spiess PE, Brown GA, Pisters LL, Liu P, Tu SM, Evans JG, Kamat AM, Black P, Tannir NM. Viable malignant germ cell tumor in the postchemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection specimen: can it be predicted using clinical parameters? Cancer 2006; 107(7):1503-1510.

Spiess PE, Brown GA, Liu P, Tannir NM, Tu SM, Evans JG, Czerniak B, Kamat AM, Pisters LL Predictors of outcome in patients undergoing postchemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testicular cancer. Cancer 2006; 107(7):1483-1490.

Wrede B, Liu P, Ater J, Wolff JE. Second sugery and the prognosis of choroid plexus carcinoma -- results of a meta-analysis of individual cases. Anticancer Research 2005; 25(6C):4429-4433.

Ji Y, Wu C, Liu P, Coombes, KR. Applications of beta-mixture models in bioinformatics. Bioinformatics 2005; 21:2118-2122.

Le CT, Liu P, Lindgren BR, Daly KA, Giebink GS. Some statistical methods for investigating the date of birth as a disease indicator. Statistics in Medicine 2003; 22:2127-2135.