Damon R Reed Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Sarcoma , Pediatrics, chemotherapeutic
Adolescent Young Adult Program, Sarcoma Department, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States
Dr. Damon Reed is the Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Program at Moffitt, an Associate Member of the Sarcoma Department at Moffitt Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Florida. He is also an on staff as a specialty physician at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. Dr. Reed’s research interests include chemotherapeutic approaches to sarcoma in the pediatric and adolescent and young adult population.
Case Report Open Access
Author(s): Jasmine L Martin*, Heather N Swedberg, Evita Henderson- Jackson, Kun Jiang, Damon R Reed and Warren Brenner (USA)
Ewing sarcoma, characterized by an 11:22 translocation, commonly occurs in bone and soft tissue sites. We present a patient with a history of both chest wall desmoid tumor and a subsequent adenosquamous pancreatic cancer treated with distal pancreatectomy, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiation. Two years later the patient developed lymphadenopathy, which was biopsied and sent for the tissue of origin testing. Results revealed a sarcoma with 90% certainty, primitive neuroectodermal tumor subtype. The original pancreatic tumor was sent for next-generation sequencing, which revealed an EWSR1/FLI1 fusion as the sole genetic mutation suggestive of an underlying Ewing sarcoma. Additionally, the same fusion gene was detected on the supraclavicular lymph node biopsy.... view moreĀ»