Ellis Levine

MD
Medical Oncology
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Cancers Treated:

Breast Penile Prostate Testicular Urethral

Research Interests:

Novel therapies for breast and urothelial cancer

About Ellis Levine

Positions

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Professor of Oncology
  • Chief, Breast Medicine
  • Hematology/Medical Oncology Fellowship Director
  • Department of Medicine

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo

  • Professor of Medicine
  • Director, Hematology/Medical Oncology Fellowship Program

Background

Education and Training:

  • MD - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Residency:

  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Fellowship:

  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Board Certification:

  • Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
  • Medical Oncology, American Board of Internal Medicine

Honors & Awards:

  • 2005-2023 - America’s Top Doctors
  • 2018 - Susan G. Komen Hope Award for Upstate New York
Evaluating the Addition of Adjuvant Chemotherapy to Ovarian Function Suppression Plus Endocrine Therapy in Premenopausal Patients With pN0-1, ER-Positive/HER2-Negative Breast Cancer and an Oncotype Recurrence Score Less Than or Equal to 25
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Testing the Use of Nilotinib and Paclitaxel as a Treatment for Patients With Prior Taxane Treatment, A ComboMATCH Treatment Trial
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Pembrolizumab vs. Observation in People With Triple-negative Breast Cancer Who Had a Pathologic Complete Response After Chemotherapy Plus Pembrolizumab
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Abemaciclib and Endocrine Therapy in Older Patients With Breast Cancer.
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Targeted Therapy Directed by Genetic Testing in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Advanced Solid Tumors, The ComboMATCH Screening Trial
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Accelerated v's Standard BEP Chemotherapy for Patients With Intermediate and Poor-risk Metastatic Germ Cell Tumours
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T-DM1 and Tucatinib Compared With T-DM1 Alone in Preventing Relapses in People With High Risk HER2-Positive Breast Cancer, the CompassHER2 RD Trial
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Clinical Trials

Evaluating the Addition of Adjuvant Chemotherapy to Ovarian Function Suppression Plus Endocrine Therapy in Premenopausal Patients With pN0-1, ER-Positive/HER2-Negative Breast Cancer and an Oncotype Recurrence Score Less Than or Equal to 25
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Testing the Use of Nilotinib and Paclitaxel as a Treatment for Patients With Prior Taxane Treatment, A ComboMATCH Treatment Trial
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Pembrolizumab vs. Observation in People With Triple-negative Breast Cancer Who Had a Pathologic Complete Response After Chemotherapy Plus Pembrolizumab
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Abemaciclib and Endocrine Therapy in Older Patients With Breast Cancer.
Learn More
Targeted Therapy Directed by Genetic Testing in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Advanced Solid Tumors, The ComboMATCH Screening Trial
Learn More
Accelerated v's Standard BEP Chemotherapy for Patients With Intermediate and Poor-risk Metastatic Germ Cell Tumours
Learn More
T-DM1 and Tucatinib Compared With T-DM1 Alone in Preventing Relapses in People With High Risk HER2-Positive Breast Cancer, the CompassHER2 RD Trial
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Stage 2 male breast cancer: Jim’s story Breast cancer at 32: Sheila's story Breast Cancer in Young Women: Family History Is the Best Indicator of Risk Can Breast Cancer Return After a Double Mastectomy? Prostate Cancer Survivor: Denny's Story Breast Cancer in Men: Owen’s Story What Happens If My Cancer Treatment Stops Working? How Research Saved My Life Detours and Delays, Then a New Route to Happiness What Happens When Pregnancy and Cancer Collide?

Featured on Cancer Talk

Stage 2 male breast cancer: Jim’s story
Breast cancer at 32: Sheila's story
Breast Cancer in Young Women: Family History Is the Best Indicator of Risk

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Publications

Full Publications list on PubMed

Agarwal N, Tangen CM, Hussain MHA, Gupta S, Plets M, Lara PN, Harzstark AL, Twardowski PW, Paller CJ, Zylla D, Zibelman MR, Levine E, Roth BJ, Goldkorn A, Vaena DA, Kohli M, Crispino T, Vogelzang NJ, Thompson IM Jr, Quinn DI. Orteronel for Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: A Multicenter, Randomized, Open-Label Phase III Trial (SWOG-1216). J Clin Oncol. 2022 Oct 1;40(28):3301-3309. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.02517. Epub 2022 Apr 21. PMID:35446628; PMCID: PMC9553390.

Alaklabi S, Roy AM, Attwood K, George A, O'Connor T, Early A, Levine EG, Gandhi S. Real world outcomes with alpelisib in metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients: A single institution experience. Front Oncol. 2022 Oct 20;12:1012391. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1012391. PMID:36338738; PMCID: PMC9631302.

Gandhi S, Opyrchal M, Grimm MJ, Slomba RT, Kokolus KM, Witkiewicz A, Attwood KM, Groman A, Williams l, Tarquini ML, Wallace PK, Soh KT, Minderman H, Mcguire O, O’Connor TL, Early AP, Levine EG, Kalinski P (2022) Systemic IFN-a/TLR3-Ligand Combination Reprograms Local Microenvironments of Breast Cancer Lesions for Selective CTL Influx. Submitted.

Ademuyiwa FO, Northfelt DW, O'Connor T, Levine E, Luo J, Tao Y, Hoog J, Laury ML, Summa T, Hammerschmidt T, Guo Z, Frith A, Weilbaecher K, Opyrchal M, Aft R, Clifton K, Suresh R, Bagegni N, Hagemann IS, Iglesia MD, Ma CX. A phase II study of palbociclib plus letrozole plus trastuzumab as neoadjuvant treatment for clinical stages II and III ER+ HER2+ breast cancer (PALTAN). NPJ Breast Cancer. 2023 Jan 6;9(1):1. doi: 10.1038/s41523-022-00504-z. PMID: 36609389; PMCID: PMC9822956.

Abraham A, Barcenas CH, Bleicher RJ, Cohen AL, Javid SH, Levine EG, Lin NU, Moy B, Niland JC, Wolff AC, Hassett MJ, Asad S, Stover DG. Clinicopathologic and sociodemographic factors associated with late relapse triple negative breast cancer in a multivariable logistic model: A multi-institution cohort study. Breast. 2023 Feb;67:89-93. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2023.01.004. Epub 2023 Jan 17. PMID: 36681001.