Garcia-Aguilar J, Patil S, Gollub MJ, Kim JK, Yuval JB, Thompson HM, Verheij FS, Omer DM, Lee M, Dunne RF, Marcet J, Cataldo P, Polite B, Herzig DO, Liska D, Oommen S, Friel CM, Ternent C, Coveler AL, Hunt S, Gregory A, Varma MG, Bello BL, Carmichael JC, Krauss J, Gleisner A, Paty PB, Weiser MR, Nash GM, Pappou E, Guillem JG, Temple L, Wei IH, Widmar M, Lin S, Segal NH, Cercek A, Yaeger R, Smith JJ, Goodman KA, Wu AJ, Saltz LB. Organ preservation in patients with rectal adenocarcinoma treated with total neoadjuvant therapy. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Apr 28:JCO2200032 [online ahead of print].

Choi SH, Kim JK, Chen CT, Wu C, Marco MR, Barriga FM, O’Rourke K, Pelossof R, Qu X, Chang Q, de Stanchina E, Shia J, Smith JJ, Sanchez-Vega F, Garcia-Aguilar J. Mol Cancer Res. 2022 Apr 8;molcanres.MCR-21-0994-A.2021 [online ahead of print].

Hsu KS, Adileh M, Martin ML, Makarov V, Chen J, Wu C, Bodo S, Klingler S, Sauvé CG, Szeglin BC, Smith JJ, Fuks Z, Riaz N, Chan TA, Nishimura M, Paty PB, Kolesnick R. Colorectal cancer develops inherent radiosensitivity that can be predicted using patient-derived organoids. Cancer Res. 2022 Apr 26:canres.4128.2021.

Ecker BL, Shin P, Saadat LV, Court CM, Balachandran VP, Chandwani R, Drebin JA, Jarnagin WR, Kingham TP, Soares KC, Vakiani E, Wei AC, Kemeny NE, Smith JJ, Gonen M, D’Angelica MI. Genomic stratification of resectable colorectal liver metastasis patients and implications for adjuvant therapy and survival. Ann Surg. 2022;275(2):371-381. PMCID: PMC8754193.

Kim JK, Wu C, Del Latto M. Gao Y, Choi S, Kierstead M, Sauve C, First C, Chaves Perez A, Sillanpaa J, Chen C, Lawrence K, Paty P, Barriga F, Shia J, Sawyers C, Lowe S, Garcia-Aguilar J, Romesser PB, * J. Joshua Smith.* A new immunocompetent rectal cancer model to study radiation therapy. bioRxiv 479335 [Preprint]. February 10, 2022. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.07.479335

Szeglin BC, Wu C, Marco MR, Park HS, Zhang Z, Zhang B, Garcia-Aguilar J, Beauchamp RD, Chen X and Smith JJ. A SMAD4-modulated gene profile predicts disease-free survival in stage II and III colorectal cancer. Cancer Rep. 2022;5(1):e1423. PMCID: PMC8789617.

Kim J, Marco MR, Cho S-H, Qu X, Chen C-T, Elkabets M, Fairchild L, Chow O, Barriga FM, Dow LE, O’Rourke K, Szeglin B, Yarilin D, Fujisawa S, Manova-Todorova K, Paty PB, Shia J, Leslie C, Smith JJ, Lowe S, Pelossof R, Sanchez-Vega F and Garcia-Aguilar J. KRAS mutant rectal cancer cells interact with surrounding fibroblasts to deplete the extracellular matrix. Mol Oncol. 2021;15:2766–2781. PMCID: PMC8486594.

Jimenez-Rodriguez RM, Quezada-Diaz F, Hameed I, Kalabin A, Patil S, Smith JJ, Garcia-Aguilar J. Organ Preservation in Patients with Rectal Cancer Treated with Total Neoadjuvant Therapy. Dis Colon Rectum. 2021 Dec 1;64(12):1463-1470. doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000002122. PMCID: PMC8820240.

Cercek A, Dos Santo F, Roxburgh CS, Ganesh K, Ng S, Sanchez-Vega F, Yaeger R, Segal NH, Reidy-Lagunes DL, Varghese AM, Markowitz A, Wu C, Szeglin B, Sauve CG, Salo-Mullen E, Tran C, Patel Z, Krishnan A, Tkachuk K, Nash GM, Guillem J, Paty PB, Shia J, Schultz N, Garcia-Aguilar J, Diaz, LA, Goodman K, Saltz LB, Weiser MR, Smith JJ, Stader ZK. Mismatch repair deficient rectal cancer and resistance to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Clin Cancer Res. 2020;26:3217–3279. PMCID: PMC7348681.

Quezada-Diaz F, Smith JJ, Jimenez-Rodriguez RM, Wasserman I, Pappou E, Patil S, Wei I, Nash GM, Guillem JG, Weiser MR, Paty PB, Garcia-Aguilar J. Patient-reported bowel function in patients with rectal cancer managed by a watch-and-wait strategy after neoadjuvant therapy: a case-control study. Dis Colon Rectum. 2020;63:897–902. PMCID: PMC7274891.

Smith JJ, Chatila WK, Sanchez-Vega F, Datta J, Connell LC, Szeglin BC, Basunia A, Boucher TM, Hauser H, Wasserman I, Wu C, Cercek A, Hechtman JF, Madden C, Jarnagin WR, Garcia-Aguilar J, D’Angelica MI, Yaeger R, Schultz N, Kemeny NE. Genomic stratification beyond Ras/B-Raf in colorectal liver metastasis patients treated with hepatic arterial infusion. Cancer Med. 2019 Nov;8(15):6538-6548. PMCID: PMC6825986.

Ganesh K, Wu C, O’Rourke KP, Szeglin BC, Zheng Y, Sauvé CG, Adileh M, Wasserman I, Marco MR, Kim AS, Shady M, Sanchez-Vega F, Karthaus WR, Won HH, Choi SH, Pelossof R, Barlas A, Ntiamoah P, Pappou E, Elghouayel A, Strong JS, Chen CT, Harris JW, Weiser MR, Nash GM, Guillem JG, Wei IH, Kolesnick RN, Veeraraghavan H, Ortiz EJ, Petkovska I, Cercek A, Manova-Todorova KO, Saltz LB, Lavery JA, DeMatteo RP, Massagué J, Paty PB, Yaeger R, Chen X, Patil S, Clevers H, Berger MF, Lowe SW, Shia J, Romesser PB, Dow LE, Garcia-Aguilar J, Sawyers CL, Smith JJ. A rectal cancer organoid platform to study individual responses to chemoradiation. Nat Med. 2019 Oct;25(10):1607-1614. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0584-2. Epub 2019 Oct 7. PMCID: PMC7385919.

Gollub M, Blazic I, Felder S, Knezevic A, Gonen M, Garcia-Aguilar J, Paty P, Smith JJ. Value of adding dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI visual assessment to conventional MRI and clinical assessment in the diagnosis of complete tumor response to chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer. Eur Radiol. 2019;29(3)1104-1113. PMCID: PMC6358522.

Wasserman I, Lee LH, Ogino S, Marco MR, Wu C, Chen X, Datta J, Sadot E, Szeglin B, Guillem JG, Paty PB, Weiser MR, Nash GM, Saltz L, Barlas A, Manova-Todorova K, Uppada SPB, Elghouayel AE, Ntiamoah P, Glickman JN, Hamada T, Kosumi K, Inamura K, Chan AT, Nishihara R, Cercek A, Ganesh K, Kemeny NE, Dhawan P, Yaeger R, Sawyers CL, Garcia-Aguilar J, Giannakis M, Shia J, Smith JJ. SMAD4 loss in colorectal cancer patients correlates with recurrence, loss of immune infiltrate, and chemoresistance. Clin Cancer Res. 2019;25(6):1948-1956. PMCID: PMC6421131.

Smith JJ, Strombom P, Chow OS, Roxburgh CS, Lynn P, Eaton A, Widmar M, Ganesh K, Yaeger R, Cercek A, Weiser MR, Nash GM, Guillem JG, Temple LKF, Chalasani SB, Fuqua JL, Petkovska I, Wu AJ, Reyngold M, Vakiani E, Shia J, Segal NH, Smith JD, Crane C, Gollub MJ, Gonen M, Saltz LB, Garcia-Aguilar J, Paty PB. Assessment of a watch-and-wait strategy for rectal cancer in patients with a complete response after neoadjuvant therapy. JAMA Oncol. 2019;5(4):e185896. PMCID: PMC6459120.

Means AL, Freeman TJ, Zhu J, Woodbury LG, Marincola-Smith P, Wu C, Meyer AR, Weaver CJ, Padmanabhan C, An H, Zi J, Wessinger BC, Chaturvedi R, Brown TD, Deane NG, Coffey RJ, Wilson KT, Smith JJ, Sawyers CL, Goldenring JR, Novitskiy SV, Washington MK, Shi C, Beauchamp RD. Epithelial Smad4 deletion up-regulates inflammation and promotes inflammation-associated cancer. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018;6(3):257-276. PMCID: PMC6083016.

Smith JJ, Wasserman I, Milgrom SA, Chow OS, Chen CT, Patil S, Goodman KA, Garcia-Aguilar J. Single nucleotide polymorphism TGFβ1 R25P correlates with acute toxicity during neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2017;97(5):924-930. PMCID: PMC5389377.

Smith JJ, Chow OS, Gollub MJ, Nash GM, Temple LK, Weiser MR, Guillem JG, Paty PB, Avila K, Garcia-Aguilar J. Organ preservation in rectal adenocarcinoma: a phase II randomized controlled trial evaluating 3-year disease-free survival in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with chemoradiation plus induction or consolidation chemotherapy, and total mesorectal excision or nonoperative management. BMC Cancer. 2015;15:767. PMCID: PMC4619249.

Freeman TJ, Smith JJ, Chen X, Washington MK, Roland JT, Means AL, Eschrich SA, Yeatman TJ, Deane NG, Beauchamp RD. Smad4-mediated signaling inhibits intestinal neoplasia by inhibiting expression of β-catenin. Gastroenterology. 2012;142(3):562-571.e2. PMCID: PMC3343368.

Smith JJ, Deane NG, Wu F, Merchant NB, Zhang B, Jiang A, Lu P, Johnson JC, Schmidt C, Bailey CE, Eschrich S, Kis C, Levy S, Washington MK, Heslin MJ, Coffey RJ, Yeatman TJ, Shyr Y, Beauchamp RD. Experimentally derived metastasis gene expression profile predicts recurrence and death in patients with colon cancer. Gastroenterology. 2010;138(3):958-968. PMCID: PMC3388775.