Current Research Interests: Ms. Ben-Porat's collaborations are with the Radiation Oncology and Hepatobiliary Services and more recently Fanconi Anemia group and Melanoma service. She has been involved in many projects including 1) the analysis of an 1800 patient database of liver cancer patients undergoing resection, 2) the absence of a telomere maintenance mechanism as a favorable prognostic factor in patients with osteosarcoma, 3) the relationship between human papillomavirus DNA and p53 polymorphisms in squamous cell carcinomas from Fanconi anemia patients, and 4) the influence of transfusions on perioperative and long-term outcome in patients following hepatic resection for colorectal metastases. She also designed and taught a two-part SAS course for members of the Epidemiology group.
Ms. Ben-Porat has collaborated with Jaya Satagopan in describing how to analyze competing risks in survival analysis and have put together a review paper on this topic for the clinical audience.
Selected Bibliography:
1. Peter J Allen, MD, Alexander Stojadinovic, MD, Leah Ben-Porat, MS, Mithat Gonen, PhD, David Kooby, MD, Leslie Blumgart, MD, Philip Paty, MD, and Yuman Fong, MD. The management of variant arterial anatomy during hepatic arterial infusion pump placement. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2002 Nov-Dec;9(9):875-80.
2. William R. Jarnagin, MD; FACS; Mithat Gonen, PhD; Ronald P. DeMatteo, MD; Leah Ben-Porat, MS; Jessica Bodniewicz, BS; Yuman Fong, MD; Miranda Youssef, BA; Leslie H. Blumgart, MD, Improvement in Perioperative Outcome after Hepatic Resection: Analysis of 1803 Consecutive Cases. Annals of Surgery 2002; 236 (4) 397-407.
3. Gary A. Ulaner, Hsuan-Ying Huang, Jesse Otero, Leah Ben-Porat, Jaya M. Satagopan, Zhiquan Zhao, Richard Gorlick, Paul Meyers, John H. Healey, Andrew G. Huvos, Andrew R. Hoffman, and Marc Ladanyi. Absence of a telomere maintenance mechanism as a favorable prognostic factor in patients with osteosarcoma. Cancer Research 2003 Apr 15;63(8):1759-63.
4. Kooby DA, Stockman J, Ben-Porat L, Gonen M, Jarnagin WR, Dematteo RP, Tuorto S, Wuest D, Blumgart LH, Fong Y. Influence of transfusions on perioperative and long-term outcome in patients following hepatic resection for colorectal metastases. Annals of Surgery. 2003 Jun;237(6):860-70.
5. Kutler DI, Wreesmann VB, Goberdhan A, Ben-Porat L, Satagopan J, Ngai I, Huvos AG, Giampietro P, Levran O, Pujara K, Diotti R, Carlson D, Huryn LA, Auerbach AD, Singh B. Human papillomavirus DNA and p53 polymorphisms in squamous cell carcinomas from Fanconi anemia patients. JNCI 2003;95:1718-1721.
