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Professor
Chair, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Director, Dermatopathology Training
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
Profile
Areas of Expertise: 
Lung cancer
Melanoma
Non-melanoma skin cancers
Non-neoplastic skin disease
Soft tissue sarcoma
Research
Research Interests: 
Microscopic diagnosis of skin disease
Melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer
Mechanisms of photodynamic therapy
Lung cancer including pre-neoplastic disease
Accuracy in diagnosis and prognostic factors for cancer patients
Tissue banking for translational research
Background Information
Education and Training: 
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
Residency: 
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (Internal Medicine Internship) New York City, NY
Board Certification: 
Anatomic Pathology, American Board of Pathology
Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
Cytopathology, American Board of Pathology
Dermatopathology, American Boards of Pathology and Dermatology
Fellowships: 
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Publications: 
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Herrmann FR, Rai H, Tchabo N, Lele S, Izevbaye I, Odunsi K, Cheney RT. IMP3 distinguishes uterine serous carcinoma from endometrial endometrioid adenocarcinoma. American journal of clinical pathology 2010; 133(6):899-908
  • Najarian DJ, Morrison C, Sait SNJ, Meguerditchian AN, Kane III J, Cheney R, Zeitouni NC. Recurrent giant cell fibroblastoma treated with Mohs micrographic surgery. Dermatologic surgery 2010; 36(3):417-421
  • Ali L, Helm T, Cheney R, Conroy J, Sait S, Guitart J, Gerami P. Correlating array comparative genomic hybridization findings with histology and outcome in spitzoid melanocytic neoplasms. International journal of clinical and experimental pathology 2010; 3(6):593-599
  • Khoury T, Nowak N, Conroy J, Morrison C, Cheney R, Mojica W, Ademuyiwa F, Wang D, Kanehira K, Liu S. Breast carcinoma with amplified HER2: a gene expression signature specific for trastuzumab resistance and poor prognosis. Modern pathology 2010; 23(10):1364-1378
  • Miller SJ, Morrison WH, Nehal KS, Nelson KC, Nghiem P, Olencki T, Perlis CS, Rosenberg EW, Shaha AR, Urist MM, Wang LC, Michalski J, Lydiatt DD, Liegeois N, Alam M, Andersen J, Berg D, Bichakjian CK, Bowen G, Cheney RT, Glass LF, Grekin RC, Kessinger A, Lee NY, Zic JA. Basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2010; 8(8):836-864
  • Ali L , Cheney R , Merzianu M. Subclinical chronic lymphocytic leukemia with atypical cutaneous presentation. Journal of cutaneous pathology 2011; 38(2):236-240
  • Cheney RT. The biologic spectrum of thymic epithelial neoplasms: current status and future prospects. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2010; 8(11):1322-1328
  • Ettinger DS , Krug LM , Le QT , Lennes IT , Martins R , Malley JO , Osarogiagbon RU , Otterson GA , Patel JD , Pisters KM , Reckamp K , Riely GJ , Rohren E , Swanson SJ , Wood DE , Kris MG , Kong FM , Akerley W , Bepler G , Blum MG , Chang A , Cheney RT , Chineac LR , Amico TAD , Demmy TL , Govindan R , Grannis FW , Jahan T , Johnson DH , Kessinger A , Komaki R , Yang SC. Thymic malignancies. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2010; 8(11):1302-1315
  • Teng Y , Ren MQ , Cheney R , Sharma S , Cowell JK. Inactivation of the WASF3 gene in prostate cancer cells leads to suppression of tumorigenicity and metastases. British journal of cancer 2010; 103(7):1066-1075
  • Kenney RJ, Cheney R, Stull MA, Kraybill W. Soft tissue sarcomas: current management and future directions. Surgical clinics of North America 2009; 89(1):235-247, x
  • Khuhchandani S, McCarthy PL, Cheney R, Hahn T, Syta M, Brown K, Paplham P, Battiwalla M, Smiley SL, Deeb G, Hong F. Fatal hyperacute graft-versus-host disease following denileukin diftitox treatment for recurrent t cell lymphoma after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation 2009; 15(7):887-890
  • Meguerditchian A-N, Cheney RT, Kane III JM. Nevus spilus with synchronous melanomas: case report and literature review. Journal of cutaneous medicine and surgery 2009; 13(2):96-101
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Ali L, Cheney RT, Groth J, Herrmann FR. Prognostic significance of neuron-associated protein expression in non-muscle-invasive urothelial bladder cancer. Journal of clinical pathology 2009; 62(8):710-714
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Chan A, Keitz B, Lele S, Cheney RT, Starostik P. Microsatellite instability in large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the female genital tract. Histopathology 2009; 55(5):621-625
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Herrmann FR, Wagner H, Godoy H, Odunsi K, Cheney RT, Lele S. Submission of the entire lymph node dissection for histologic examination in gynecologic-oncologic specimens. Clinical and pathologic relevance. Gynecologic oncology 2009; 115(3):354-356
  • Miller SJ, Michalski J, Morrison WH, Nehal KS, Nelson KC, Nghiem P, Olencki T, Oseroff AR, Perlis CS, Rosenberg EW, Shaha AR, Urist MM, Lydiatt DD, Liegeois N, Alam M, Andersen J, Berg D, Bichakjian CK, Bowen G, Cheney RT, Glass LF, Grekin RC, Hallahan DE, Kessinger A, Lee NY, Wang LC. Merkel cell carcinoma. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2009; 7(3):322-332
  • Morrison C, Cheney R, Johnson CS, Smith G, Mohler JL. Central quadrant procurement of radical prostatectomy specimens. Prostate 2009; 69(7):770-773
  • Ongchin M, Sharratt E, Dominguez I, Simms N, Wang J, Cheney R, LeVea C, Brattain M, Rajput A. The effects of epidermal growth factor receptor activation and attenuation of the TGFbeta pathway in an orthotopic model of colon cancer. Journal of surgical research 2009; 156(2):250-256
  • Qian F, Old LJ, Shrikant P, Lele S, Moysich K, Cheney R, Liao J, Beck A, Frederick PJ, Ayyoub M, Valmori D, Matsuzaki J, Andrews C, Tario Jr JD, Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Wallace PK, Villella J, Odunsi K. Efficacy of levo-1-methyl tryptophan and dextro-1-methyl tryptophan in reversing indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase-mediated arrest of T-cell proliferation in human epithelial ovarian cancer. Cancer research 2009; 69(13):5498-5504
  • Tomar S, Stoll HL, Grassi MA, Cheney R. Treatment of cutaneous pseudolymphoma with interferon alfa-2b. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2009; 60(1):172-174
  • Khoury T, Chandrasekhar R, Wilding G, Tan D, Cheney RT. Tumour eosinophilia combined with an immunohistochemistry panel is useful in the differentiation of type B3 thymoma from thymic carcinoma. International journal of experimental pathology 2011; 92(2):87-96
  • Syriac S, Sait S, Cheney RT, Merzianu M. FLI1 and CD57 Expression in Round Cell Sinonasal Tumors. Laboratory investigation 2011; 91(Suppl. 1):1206
  • Iwenofu OH, Samie FH, Ralston J, Cheney RT, Zeitouni NC. Extramammary Paget's disease presenting as alopecia neoplastica. Journal of cutaneous pathology 2008; 35(8):761-764
  • Kenney R, Cheney R, Kraybill W. Core biopsy for diagnosis and tissue procurement. Journal of surgical oncology 2008; 97(5):374-375
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Herrmann FR, Chan A, Cheney RT, Zhang Y. No association of NAD(P)H quinone oxidoreductase 1 expression with p53 expression or tumour outcome in patients with superficial and minimally invasive urothelial bladder cancers. BJU international 2008; 102(5):639
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Odunsi K, Dim D, Nowak N, Lele S, Cheney RT, Pejovic T. Array-comparative genomic hybridization analysis of primary endometrial and ovarian high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma associated with adenocarcinoma: mystery resolved? . International journal of gynecological pathology 2008; 27(4):539-546
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Rai H, Nowak N, Cheney RT, Rodabaugh K, Lele S, Odunsi K. The use of array-based comparative genomic hybridization (a-CGH) to distinguish metastatic from primary synchronous carcinomas of the ovary and the uterus. Histopathology 2008; 53(4):490-495
  • Seshadri M, Bellnier DA, Cheney RT. Assessment of the early effects of 5,6-dimethylxanthenone-4-acetic acid using macromolecular contrast media-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: ectopic versus orthotopic tumors. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2008; 72(4):1198-1207
  • Zientek-Targosz H, Kunnev D, Hawthorn L, Venkov M, Matsui S, Cheney RT, Ionov Y. Transformation of MCF-10A cells by random mutagenesis with frameshift mutagen ICR191: a model for identifying candidate breast-tumor suppressors. Molecular cancer 2008; 7:51
  • Merg A, Wirtzfeld D, Wang J, Cheney R, Dunn KB, Rajput A. Viability of endoscopic and excisional treatment of early rectal carcinoids. Journal of gastrointestinal surgery 2007; 11(7):893-897
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Herrmann FR, Bshara W, Odunsi K, Terracciano L, Sauter G, Cheney RT, Groth J, Penetrante R. Friend leukaemia integration-1 expression in malignant and benign tumours: a multiple tumour tissue microarray analysis using polyclonal antibody. Journal of clinical pathology 2007; 60(6):694-700
  • Rigual NR, Cheney RT, Iwenofu OH, Li Q, Loree TR, Popat SR, Merzianu M. Idiosyncrasies of scalp melanoma. Laryngoscope 2007; 117(8):1354-1358
  • Seshadri M, Spernyak JA, Maiery PG, Cheney RT, Mazurchuk R, Bellnier DA. Visualizing the acute effects of vascular-targeted therapy in vivo using intravital microscopy and magnetic resonance imaging: correlation with endothelial apoptosis, cytokine induction, and treatment outcome. Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) 2007; 9(2):128-135
  • Faoro L, Krausz T, Armato SG 3rd, Reid ME, Cheney RT, Ferguson MK, El-Zayaty SA, Salgia R, Hutto JY, Husain AN. Lymphatic vessel density is not associated with lymph node metastasis in non-small cell lung carcinoma. Archives of pathology and laboratory medicine 2008; 132(12):1882-1888
  • Menezes RJ, Salgia R, Moysich KB, Jayaprakash V, Johnson CS, Loewen G, Tretiakova M, Husain A, Cheney RT, Reid ME. Vitamin D receptor expression in normal, premalignant, and malignant human lung tissue. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers and prevention 2008; 17(5):1104-1110
  • Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Pejovic T, Dim D, Fang X, Conroy J, Lele S, Cheney R, Odunsi K. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) analysis is a useful tool for distinguishing primary pulmonary from metastatic neuroendocrine carcinoma to the lung. Applied immunohistochemistry and molecular morphology : AIMM 2008; 16(3):291-295
  • Khoury T, Mojica W, Hicks D, Starostik P, Ademuyiwa F, Janarthanan B, Cheney RT. ERBB2 juxtamembrane domain (trastuzumab binding site) gene mutation is a rare event in invasive breast cancers overexpressing the ERBB2 gene. Modern pathology 2011; 24(8):1055-1059
  • Ali L, Herrmann FR, Cheney RT, Mhawech-Fauceglia P. Novel Biomarkers Expression in Patients with Superficial and Minimally Invasive Urothelial Bladder Cancer and Their Assoaciation with Tumor Outcomes. Laboratory investigation 2009; 89(Suppl. 1):156A (Abstract #701)
  • Bogner PN, Rigual NR, Ferrone S, Wilding C, Cheney RT. Reduced expression of the chaperone protein calnexin is associated with sentinel lymph node metastasis of oral carcinoma. Laboratory investigation 2007; 87(Suppl. 1):1011
  • Iwenofu O, Cheney R, Ralston J, Zeitouni N. Extramammary paget's disease (EMPD) presenting as alopecia neoplastica. Journal of cutaneous pathology 2007; 34(1):94
  • Mackinnon A, Tretiakova M, Manaligod J, Krausz T, Husain A, Cheney R, Reid M, Salgia R. Paxillin in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) development and progression: immunohistochemical, molecular, and epidemiological analysis of transbronchial biopsies from high-risk patients. Histopathology 2008; 53:813
  • Meguerditchian A, Samie F, Vaughan M, Cheney R, Zeitouni N, Kane JM. Characterization of PDGF alpha/beta and PDGFR alpha/beta expression in dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: Implications for targeted molecular therapy. Annals of surgical oncology 2008; 15(Suppl. 2):100-101
  • Odunsi K, Qian F, Villella J, Mhawech-Fauceglia P, Andrews C, Matsuzaki J, Frederick PJ, Cheney R, Moysich K, Lele S, Shrikant P, Old LJ. Tryptophan degradation by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase promotes preferential accumulation of CD4(+)CD25(high)FOXP3(+) regulatory T cells in human ovarian cancer. Gynecologic oncology 2008; 108(3 Suppl. 1):338
  • Ravi V, Henry D, Dim DC, Chen S-C, Aggarwal C, Hicks DG, Cheney RT, Wong MK. Chemoresistant malignant human endothelial cells overexpress angiogenesis and apoptosis genes. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2007; 48:515
  • Seshadri M, Maier PG, Vaughan LA, Cheney RT, Bellnier DA. Influence of tumor microenvironment on the vascularity and response of murine fibrosarcomas to the vascular disrupting agent 5,6-dimethylxanthenone-4-acetic acid (DMXAA): ectopic versus orthotopic tumors. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2007; 48:1098
  • Wongsena W, Ferrone S, Cheney R, Leetayuwat C, Sripa B. MHIC class I and MICA expressions in liver fluke associated cholangiocarcinoma. Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) 2007; 123(Suppl.):S112
  • Ettinger DS, Akerley W, Borghaei H, Chang A, Cheney RT, Chirieac LR, D'Amico TA, Demmy TL, Ganti AKP, Govindan R, Grannis Jr FW, Horn L, Jahan TM, Jahanzeb M, Kessinger A, Komaki R, Kong F-M, Kris MG, Krug LM, Lennes IT, Loo Jr BW, Martins R, O'Malley J, Osarogiagbon RU, Otterson GA, Patel JD, Pinder-Schenck M, Pisters KM, Reckamp K, Riely GJ, Rohren E, Swanson SJ, Wood DE, Yang SC. Malignant pleural mesothelioma. Clinical practice guidelines in oncology. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2012; 10(1):26-41
  • Miller SJ, Alam M, Andersen JS, Berg D, Bichakjian CK, Bowen GM, Cheney RT, Glass LF, Grekin RC, Ho AL, Kessinger A, Liegeois N, Lydiatt DD, Michalski J, Morrison WH, Nehal KS, Nelson KC, Nghiem P, Olencki T, Perlis CS, Shaha AR, Tuli M, Urist MM, Wang LC, Zic JA. Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2012; 10(3):312-318
  • Xu B, Cheney RT, Omilian A, Liu Y, Morrison C. Expression of PAX2 and Renal Cell Carcinoma Antigen in Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma. Laboratory investigation 2012; 92(Suppl. 1):319A
  • Ali L, Cheney R, Merzianu M, Chen F. Leukemia cutis as the initial presenting sign of systemic chronic lymphocytic leukemia, an easily missed diagnosis. Journal of cutaneous pathology 2009; 36(1):123
  • Shatzel J, Wooten K, Ankola A, Cheney RT, Morrison CD, Skitzki JJ. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the mesentery: a clinical dilemma. International journal of clinical oncology 2012; 17(4):380-384
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