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Nancy E. Davidson

University of Washington

Nancy E. Davidson is the executive director and president of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, senior vice president, director of clinical oncology at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and head of the Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She focuses her research on breast cancer treatments and the genes that are mutated in various forms of breast cancer. She was president of American Association for Cancer Research from 2015 to 2016 and president of A

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Publications841Total indexed works
Citations79,671Source-reported citations
h-index123Source-reported h-index
i10-index357Source-reported i10-index

Biography, research & contributions

Nancy E. Davidson is the executive director and president of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, senior vice president, director of clinical oncology at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and head of the Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She focuses her research on breast cancer treatments and the genes that are mutated in various forms of breast cancer. She was president of American Association for Cancer Research from 2015 to 2016 and president of American Society of Clinical Oncology from 2007 to 2008.

Affiliation

University of Washington

Top Publications

  • Trastuzumab plus Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Operable HER2-Positive Breast Cancer (2005) - 5,402 citations
  • Personalizing the treatment of women with early breast cancer: highlights of the St Gallen International Expert Consensus on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer 2013 (2013) - 3,779 citations
  • Paclitaxel plus Bevacizumab versus Paclitaxel Alone for Metastatic Breast Cancer (2007) - 3,094 citations
  • Mutations in the p53 gene occur in diverse human tumour types (1989) - 2,779 citations
  • AACR Project GENIE: Powering Precision Medicine through an International Consortium (2017) - 2,050 citations

At a glance

Full name
Nancy E. Davidson
ORCID
0000-0003-1520-6442
OpenAlex ID
https://openalex.org/A5044143691

Research interests

  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, Estrogen and related hormone effects, Breast Lesions and Carcinomas, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research

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