Sai Yendamuri

Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS

Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Attending Surgeon, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Director, Thoracic Laboratory
Associate Professor of Oncology
School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
Associate Professor of Surgery
Areas of Expertise: 
Esophageal cancer
Lung cancer
Mesothelioma
Special Interests: 
Molecular staging of thoracic malignancies
Lung cancer screening
Risk prediction using genomic markers
Board Certification: 
American Board of Surgery
Fellowship: 
Harrison Department of Surgical Research, Philadelphia, PA
Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Residency: 
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens/Cornell University, New York, NY
Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE
Education and Training: 
MD - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Publications
  • Patnaik SK, Kannisto E, Yendamuri S. Factors affecting the yield of microRNAs from laser microdissectates of formalin-fixed tissue sections. BMC research notes 2012; 5 :40
  • Yendamuri S, Demmy TL. Is VAMLA/TEMLA the new standard of preresection staging of non-small cell lung cancer?. Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2012; 1443:S14-S17
  • Nwogu CE, Groman A, Fahey D, Yendamuri S, Dexter E, Demmy TL, Miller A, Reid M. Number of lymph nodes and metastatic lymph node ratio are associated with survival in lung cancer. Annals of thoracic surgery 2012; 935:1614-1619; discussion 1619-1620
  • Yendamuri S, Caty L, Pine M, Adem S, Bogner P, Miller A, Demmy TL, Groman A, Reid M. Outcomes of sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database analysis.Surgery 2012; 1523:397-402
  • Demmy TL, Yendamuri S, Hennon MW, Dexter EU, Picone AL, Nwogu C. Thoracoscopic maneuvers for chest wall resection and reconstruction. Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2012;1443:S52-S57
  • Dahlgaard J, Mazin W, Jensen T, Pohl M, Bshara W, Hansen A, Kanisto E, Hamilton-Dutoit S, Hansen O, Hager H, Ditzel HJ, Yendamuri S, Knudsen S. Analytical variables influencing the performance of a miRNA based laboratory assay for prediction of relapse in stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).BMC research notes 2011; 4:424
  • Yendamuri S , Gutierrez L , Oni A , Mashtare T , Khushalani N, Yang G , Nava H , Demmy T , Nwogu C.Does circular stapled esophagogastric anastomotic size affect the incidence of postoperative strictures?. Journal of surgical research 2011; 1651:1-4
  • Yendamuri S, Gold D, Jayaprakash V, Dexter E, Nwogu C, Demmy T. Is sublobar resection sufficient for carcinoid tumors? . Annals of thoracic surgery 2011; 925:1774-1778; discussion 1778-9
  • Yendamuri S, Demmy TL. Lobectomy for patients with limited lung function. Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2011; 233:191-195
  • Dhillon SS, Dhillon JK, Yendamuri S. Mediastinal staging of non-small-cell lung cancer. Expert review of respiratory medicine 2011; 56:835-850; quiz 851
  • Yendamuri S, Kratzke R. MicroRNA biomarkers in lung cancer: MiRacle or quagMiRe? . Translational research 2011; 1574:209-215
  • Patnaik SK, Kannisto E, Mallick R, Yendamuri S. Overexpression of the lung cancer-prognostic miR-146b microRNAs has a minimal and negative effect on the malignant phenotype of A549 lung cancer cells.PloS one 2011; 67:e22379
  • Kachare S, Dexter EU, Nwogu C, Demmy TL, Yendamuri S. Perioperative outcomes of thoracoscopic anatomic resections in patients with limited pulmonary reserve. Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2011; 1412:459-462
  • Jayaprakash V, Cheng C, Reid M, Dexter EU, Nwogu CE, Hicks W, Sullivan M, Demmy TL, Yendamuri S.Previous head and neck cancers portend poor prognoses in lung cancer patients. Annals of thoracic surgery 2011; 923:1056-1061
  • Hennon M, Sahai RK, Yendamuri S, Tan W, Demmy TL, Nwogu C. Safety of thoracoscopic lobectomy in locally advanced lung cancer. Annals of surgical oncology 2011; 1813:3732-3736
  • Demmy TL, Platis IE, Nwogu C, Yendamuri S. Thoracoscopic extrapleural pneumonectomy for mesothelioma. Annals of thoracic surgery 2011; 912:616-618
  • Bhaskarla A, Tang PC, Mashtare T, Nwogu CE, Demmy TL, Adjei AA, Reid ME, Yendamuri S. Analysis of second primary lung cancers in the SEER database. Journal of surgical research 2010; 1621:1-6
  • Lee RY , Flaherty L , Khushalani NI , Kanehira K , Nwogu C , Yendamuri S , Nava HR , Yang GY. Aorto-esophageal fistula: a rare fatal case caused by esophageal malignancy. Journal of gastrointestinal oncology 2010; 11:64-67
  • May KS , Lamonica D , Nava HR , Gibbs JF , Yendamuri SS , Nwogu CE , Iyer RV , Yap JC , Warner JC , Russo RC , Malhotra HK , Flaherty L , Wilding GE , Chandrasekhar R , Khushalani NI , Yang GY , Thomas Jr CR.Association of Technetium(99m) MAG-3 renal scintigraphy with change in creatinine clearance following chemoradiation to the abdomen in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. Journal of gastrointestinal oncology 2010; 11:7-15
  • Patnaik SK, Mallick R, Yendamuri S. Detection of microRNAs in dried serum blots. Analytical biochemistry 2010; 4071:147-149
  • Nwogu CE, Yendamuri S, Demmy TL. Does thoracoscopic pneumonectomy for lung cancer affect survival?. Annals of thoracic surgery 2010; 896:S2102-S2106
  • Patnaik SK, Kannisto E, Knudsen S, Yendamuri S. Evaluation of microRNA expression profiles that may predict recurrence of localized stage I non-small cell lung cancer after surgical resection. Cancer research 2010; 701:36-45
  • Patnaik SK , Mallick R , Yendamuri S. MicroRNAs and esophageal cancer. Journal of gastrointestinal oncology 2010; 11:55-63
  • Mallick R, Patnaik S, Yendamuri S. MicroRNAs and lung cancer: Biology and applications in diagnosis and prognosis. Journal of carcinogenesis 2010; 9:8
  • Yendamuri S. MicroRNAs and prognosis of lung cancer. Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2010; 224:269-270
  • Patnaik SK, Kannisto E, Yendamuri S. Overexpression of microRNA miR-30a or miR-191 in A549 lung cancer or BEAS-2B normal lung cell lines does not alter phenotype. PloS one 2010; 52:e9219
  • Yang GY, Fakih M, Gibbs JF, Yendamuri SS, Khushalani NI, McCloskey SA, Wilding GE, Chandrasekhar R, Iyer RV, May KS, Thomas Jr CR. Renal atrophy secondary to chemoradiotherapy of abdominal malignancies. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2010; 782:539-546
  • Demmy TL, Nwogu CE, Yendamuri S. Thoracoscopic chest wall resection: what is its role?. Annals of thoracic surgery 2010; 896:S2142-S2145
  • Demmy TL, Nwogu C, Solan P, Yendamuri S, Wilding G, DeLeon O. Chest tube-delivered bupivacaine improves pain and decreases opioid use after thoracoscopy. Annals of thoracic surgery 2009;874:1040-1046; discussion 1046-1047
  • Sahai RK, Nwogu CE, Yendamuri S, Tan W, Wilding GE, Demmy TL. Is thoracoscopic pneumonectomy safe?. Annals of thoracic surgery 2009; 884:1086-1092
  • Bogner PN, Patnaik SK, Pitoniak R, Kannisto E, Repasky E, Hylander B, Yendamuri S, Ramnath N. Lung cancer xenografting alters microRNA profile but not immunophenotype. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2009; 3862:305-310
  • Yendamuri S, Calin GA. The role of microRNA in human leukemia: a review. Leukemia 2009; 237:1257-1263
  • Yendamuri S, Nwogu CE, Demmy TL. Thoracoscopic lobectomy with chest wall resection after neoadjuvant therapy. Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2009; 41:36-38
  • Demmy TL, Tomaszewski G, Dy GK, Yendamuri S, Nwogu C, Pendyala L, Ramnath N, Adjei AA.Thoracoscopic organ suffusion for regional lung chemotherapy (preliminary results). Annals of thoracic surgery 2009; 882:385-390; discussion 390-391
  • Yendamuri S, Roth JA, Walsh GL, Swisher SG, Spitz MR, Rice DC, Mehran RJ, Jiang F, Hofstetter WL, Bekele NB, Fernandez R, Feng L, Zaidi T, Vaporciyan AA, Katz RL. 3p22.1 and 10q22.3 deletions detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH): a potential new tool for early detection of non-small cell lung Cancer (NSCLC). Journal of thoracic oncology 2008; 39:979-984
  • Yendamuri S, Trapasso F, Calin GA. ARLTS1 - a novel tumor suppressor gene. Cancer letters 2008;2641:11-20