Acute Leukemia During the First Six Months of Life: A Population-Based Analysis of Survival by Leukemia Type. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2026 Aug 22. Perez-Witte CA, Wu N, Pauerstein PT, Burke LM, Winestone LE, Goldsby RE. PMID: 42722538.
Rabbit Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Refractoriness or Induced Lymphocytosis in Alpha-Beta T-cell Depleted Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients. Transplant Cell Ther. 2026 Aug 12. Dvorak CC, Avagyan S, Winestone LE, Salinas-Cisneros G, Chu JI, Higham CS, Pauerstein PT, Kharbanda S, Shimano KA, Huang JN, Long-Boyle JR. PMID: 42586369.
HLH-like syndromes associate with increased risk of death and CD19-negative relapse post-CAR T in pediatric B-ALL. Blood Adv. 2026 Jul 17. McNerney KO, Kwon S, Naik S, Fabrizio VA, Llaurador Caraballo G, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Talleur AC, Zeng XL, Baggott C, Vatsayan A, Verneris MR, Prabhu S, Rossoff J, Pacenta HL, Phillips CL, Talano JM, Moskop A, Myers GD, Karras NA, Bonifant CL, Qayed M, Satwani P, Winestone LE, Krupski C, Keating AK, Baumeister SHC, Egeler E, Stieglitz E, Curran KJ, Mackall CL, John S, Laetsch TW, Gardner RA, Schultz LM. PMID: 42469167.
American Society of Hematology 2026 guidelines for management of relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adolescents and young adults. Blood Adv. 2026 Jul 14; 10(13):4726-4756. O'Dwyer K, Winestone LE, Cheung MC, Benitez L, Buldini B, Cole PD, Damlaj M, Dholaria B, Dias AL, Dils A, Fritsch M, Greer J, Hayes-Lattin B, Henry M, Jaffe A, Jamy O, Kebriaei P, Mehrtens I, Shah NN, Wilde L, Young PA, Mai HJ, Kanaan G, Sereda Y, Saldanha IJ, Balk EM, Gupta S. PMID: 41670624; PMCID: PMC13366310.
Winestone LE, Logan BR, Liu X, Williams O, Dunn EA, Thakar MS, Kidd SA, Mousallem T, Dorsey MJ, O'Reilly RJ, Kapoor N, Forbes Satter L, Kapadia M, Jyonouchi SC, Chandra S, Ebens CL, Chellapandian D, Chaudhury S, Chen K, Dávila Saldaña BJ, Rayes A, Quigg TC, Chandrakasan S, Bednarski JJ, DeSantes KB, Teira P, Gillio AP, Eissa H, Knutsen AP, Aquino VM, Shereck EB, Moore TB, Caywood EH, Vander Lugt MT, Rozmus J, Broglie L, Yu LC, Shah AJ, Joshi AY, Buckley RH, Dara J, Oved JH, Abdel Azim H, Martinez CA, Prockop S, Sullivan KE, Bleesing JJ, Keller MD, Madden LM, Parikh S, Shenoy S, Seroogy CM, Rubin T, Licata J, Andolina JR, Kohn DB, Burroughs L, Leiding JW, Marsh RA, Notarangelo LD, Pai SY, Torgerson TR, Pulsipher MA, Heimall J, Cuvelier GDE, Griffith LM, Puck JM, Dvorak CC, Cowan MJ, Haddad E. Newborn screening reduces survival disparities in SCID after stem cell transplant: A PIDTC report. J Hum Immun. 2026 Jul 7 PMID: 42416786
Evaluating Disparities in Pediatric Cancer Genomic Testing and Sequencing Results at the University of California, San Francisco Using the National Childhood Cancer Registry. JCO Oncol Pract. 2026 May 22; OP2501134. Sangaramoorthy M, Walia A, Turski M, Vu A, Lichtensztajn D, Huang C, Golla A, Gomez SL, Winestone LE. PMID: 42172550.
Collecting Social Determinants of Health in a Children's Oncology Group Trial for High-Risk Neuroblastoma. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Mar 02; 9(3):e260419. Jones E, Naranjo A, Winestone LE, Umaretiya PJ, Aziz-Bose R, Kelly CA, Newman H, Zheng DJ, Greengard E, Bagatell R, DuBois SG, Bona K. PMID: 41770565; PMCID: PMC12954535.
Liberalizing hospital proximity requirements for children/young adults with low-burden B-ALL receiving tisagenlecleucel. Blood Adv. 2026 Jan 13; 10(1):106-110. Appell LE, Baggott C, Nguyen K, Prabhu S, Pacenta H, John S, Fabrizio VA, Phillips CL, Rossoff J, Talano JA, Moskop A, Phelan R, Baumeister SHC, Verneris MR, Hall EM, Myers GD, Karras NA, Cooper SL, Qayed M, Raikar SS, Winestone L, Hermiston M, Satwani P, Krupski C, Keating AK, Friedman DN, Curran KJ, Hoover A, MacMillan ML, Ebens CL, Ramgopal A, Rahrig AL, Mackall CL, Laetsch TW, McNerney K, Schultz LM. PMID: 41026960; PMCID: PMC12804132.
The impact of environmental contaminants, air pollution, and social deprivation on childhood leukemia survival in California. Front Oncol. 2025; 15:1686115. Hernandez F, Stewart E, Morimoto LM, Kang AY, Winestone LE, Metayer C. PMID: 41438983; PMCID: PMC12719266.
Fludarabine Pharmacokinetic Model-Based Dosing Minimizes the Risk of Graft Rejection in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther. 2026 Apr; 32(4):476.e1-476.e14. Dvorak CC, Waters E, Temple WC, Salinas Cisneros G, Chu J, Winestone LE, Higham CS, Kharbanda S, Shimano KA, Avagyan S, Pauerstein P, Huang JN, Brooks JT, Long-Boyle JR. PMID: 41365398.
Role of race and ethnicity in survival among children/young adults with relapsed ALL: a Children's Oncology Group report. Blood Adv. 2025 Nov 25; 9(22):5738-5751. Ligon JA, Ji L, Dang A, Xu X, Rheingold SR, Bhojwani D, Devidas M, Kairalla JA, Shago M, Heerema NA, Carroll AJ, Borowitz M, Wood BL, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Loh ML, Gupta S, Winestone LE. PMID: 40815811; PMCID: PMC12661295.
Real-world outcomes of infections following tisagenlecleucel in patients with B-cell ALL: a CIBMTR analysis. Blood Adv. 2025 Nov 11; 9(21):5489-5500. Rangarajan HG, Satwani P, Herr MM, Chen M, Martens MJ, Wudhikarn K, John S, Fabrizio VA, Hsieh EM, Kelkar AH, Doherty E, Marks DI, Ringden O, Friend B, Kelly MS, Farhadfar N, Prestidge T, Hossain NM, Liu H, Hashmi S, Modi D, Winestone LE, El Boghdadly Z, Murthy HS, Perales MA, Chemaly RF, Dandoy CE, Hill JA, Huppler A, Riches M, Auletta JJ. PMID: 40737539; PMCID: PMC12607035.
Lower Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Is Associated With Intensive Care Unit Admission at Initial Presentation in Children With Acute Leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Dec; 72(12):e32049. Swift CM, Chism E, Lin K, Cortella A, Banerjee T, Alvarez JS, Winestone LE. PMID: 40947565.
Historical redlining and mortality in children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer in California, 2000-2019. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Aug 01; 117(8):1646-1654. Karvonen KA, Vu A, Lin K, Gibbons J, Mendoza JA, Chow EJ, Winestone LE, Gomez SL. PMID: 40272942; PMCID: PMC12756997.
Impact of Genetic Ancestry on Genomics and Survival Outcomes in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Blood Cancer Discov. 2025 09 01; 6(5):412-424. Newman H, Lee SHR, Pölönen P, Shraim R, Li Y, Liu H, Aplenc R, Bandyopadhyay S, Chen C, Devidas M, Diorio C, Dunsmore K, Elghawy O, Elhachimi A, Fuller T, Gupta S, Hall J, Hughes AD, Hunger SP, Loh ML, Martinez Z, McCoy MF, Mullen CG, Pounds SB, Raetz E, Seffernick AE, Shi G, Sussman J, Tan K, Uppuluri L, Vincent TL, Wang'ondu R, Winestone LE, Winter SS, Wood BL, Wu G, Xu J, Yang W, Mullighan CG, Yang JJ, Bona K, Teachey DT. PMID: 40434808; PMCID: PMC12405861.
Impact of neighborhood archetypes on overall mortality among young patients with acute leukemia in California. Cancer. 2025 May 01; 131(9):e35863. Winestone LE, Yang J, Banerjee T, Sangaramoorthy M, Kahn J, Abrahão R, Keegan TH, Cheng I, Gomez SL, Shariff-Marco S. PMID: 40304597; PMCID: PMC12042787.
High Melphalan Exposure Increases the Risk of Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Alpha-Beta T-Cell Depleted Haploidentical Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Jun; 31(6):384.e1-384.e15. Dvorak CC, Cho S, Salinas Cisneros G, Higham CS, Chu J, Winestone LE, Temple WC, Kharbanda S, Shimano KA, Avagyan S, Pauerstein PT, Huang JN, Cheng G, Lalefar N, Lalefar N, Aguayo-Hiraldo P, Keizer RJ, Pulsipher MA, Long-Boyle JR. PMID: 40185404; PMCID: PMC13181854.
Pre- and Postnatal Exposures to Residential Pesticides and Survival of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Cancers (Basel). 2025 Mar 14; 17(6). Desai S, Morimoto LM, Kang AY, Miller MD, Wiemels JL, Wiemels JL, Winestone LE, Metayer C. PMID: 40149312; PMCID: PMC11941410.
Younger children with nonmalignant disease have increased incidence of mixed myeloid chimerism after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation with busulfan-based conditioning. Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Apr; 31(4):259.e1-259.e15. Dvorak CC, Temple WC, Cisneros GS, Chu J, Winestone LE, Higham CS, Shimano KA, Kharbanda S, Avagyan S, Pauerstein P, Huang JN, Cheng G, Waters E, Winger BA, Cowan MJ, Long-Boyle JR. PMID: 39938805.
Steineck A, Chao K, Hall AG, Jacoby E, Leahy AB, Ligon JA, Luciani K, Schultz LM, Summers CN, Ward L, Winestone LE, Shah NN. Access to CARe: A Narrative of Real-World Medical Decision-Making to Access Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 Apr;72(4):e31516. doi: 10.1002/pbc.31516. Epub 2025 Jan 23. PMID: 39844726.
Dvorak CC, Temple WC, Cisneros GS, Chu J, Winestone LE, Higham CS, Shimano KA, Kharbanda S, Avagyan S, Pauerstein P, Huang JN, Cheng G, Waters E, Winger BA, Cowan MJ, Long-Boyle JR. Younger children with nonmalignant disease have increased incidence of mixed myeloid chimerism after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation with busulfan-based conditioning. Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Feb 10:S2666-6367(25)01010-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2025.02.002. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39938805.
Karvonen KA, Doody DR, Barry D, Bona K, Winestone LE, Rosenberg AR, Mendoza JA, Schwartz SM, Chow EJ. Historical redlining and survival among children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer diagnosed between 2000-2019 in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. Cancer. 2025 Feb 1;131(3):e35677. doi: 10.1002/cncr.35677. PMID: 39866001.
Ghilardi G, Hasanali ZS, Susanibar-Adaniya SP, Winestone LE, Ruella M, Garfall AL. Association of age, race, and ethnicity with access, response, and toxicities from CAR-T therapy in children and adults with B-cell malignancies: a review. J Immunother Cancer. 2025 Jan 23;13(1):e009349. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2024-009349. PMID: 39855710.
Ragavan MV, Mora RV, Nipp R, Winestone LE. Band-Aids Can Still Help Heal: The Role of Patient Financial Assistance Programs in Addressing Financial Toxicity. JCO Oncol Pract. 2025 Jan;21(1):73-77. doi: 10.1200/OP.24.00287. Epub 2025 Jan 10. PMID: 39793545.
Santacroce SJ, Beauchemin MP, Pelletier W, Robles JM, Ruiz J, Blazin LJ, Aristizabal P, Orjuela-Grimm M, Hall AG, Kahn J, Kline C, Seif AE, Velez MC, Winestone LE. Multilevel challenges to equitable inclusion of children in trials when parents use languages other than English: A qualitative report from Children's Oncology Group's Diversity and Health Disparities Committee Language Equity Working Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Nov;71(11):e31321. doi: 10.1002/pbc.31321. Epub 2024 Sep 5. PMID: 39238140.
Ballen K, Wang T, He N, Knight JM, Hong S, Frangoul H, Verdonck LF, Steinberg A, Diaz MA, LeMaistre CF, Badawy SM, Pu JJ, Hashem H, Savani B, Sharma A, Lazarus HM, Abid MB, Tay J, Rangarajan HG, Kindwall-Keller T, Freytes CO, Beitinjaneh A, Winestone LE, Gergis U, Farhadfar N, Bhatt NS, Schears RM, Gómez-Almaguer D, Aljurf M, Agrawal V, Kuwatsuka Y, Seo S, Marks DI, Lehmann L, Wood WA, Hashmi S, Saber W. Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Outcomes After Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Oct;30(10):1027.e1-1027.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2024.07.009. Epub 2024 Jul 20. PMID: 39033978; PMCID: PMC11842128.
Higham CS, Shimano KA, Kharbanda S, Chu J, Cisneros GS, Winestone LE, Dara J, Huang JN, Hermiston ML, Long-Boyle JR, Dvorak CC. Cyclophosphamide and Thiotepa Increases Risk of Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Sep;30(9):931.e1-931.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2024.06.020. Epub 2024 Jun 27. PMID: 38944154.
Winestone LE, Wilkes JJ, Puccetti D, Keegan THM, Henk HJ, McPheeters J, Kahn JM, Ginsberg J, Wong S, Timberline S, Malogolowkin M, Pollock BH, Alvarez E. Time to diagnosis among young patients with cancer. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Sep;71(9):e30997. doi: 10.1002/pbc.30997. Epub 2024 Jun 12. PMID: 38864147.
Khera N, Ailawadhi S, Brazauskas R, Patel J, Jacobs B, Ustun C, Ballen K, Abid MB, Diaz Perez MA, Al-Homsi AS, Hashem H, Hong S, Munker R, Schears RM, Lazarus HM, Ciurea S, Badawy SM, Savani BN, Wirk B, LeMaistre CF, Bhatt NS, Beitinjaneh A, Aljurf M, Sharma A, Cerny J, Knight JM, Kelkar AH, Yared JA, Kindwall-Keller T, Winestone LE, Steinberg A, Arnold SD, Seo S, Preussler JM, Hossain NM, Fingrut WB, Agrawal V, Hashmi S, Lehmann LE, Wood WA, Rangarajan HG, Saber W, Hahn T. Trends in volumes and survival after hematopoietic cell transplantation in racial/ethnic minorities. Blood Adv. 2024 Jul 9;8(13):3497-3506. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023012469. PMID: 38661372; PMCID: PMC11260842.
Beauchemin MP, Ortega M, Santacroce SJ, Robles JM, Ruiz J, Hall AG, Kahn JM, Fu C, Orjuela-Grimm M, Hillyer GC, Solomon S, Pelletier W, Montiel-Esparza R, Blazin LJ, Kline C, Seif AE, Aristizabal P, Winestone LE, Velez MC. Clinical trial recruitment of people who speak languages other than English: a Children's Oncology Group report. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2024 Jul 1;8(4):pkae047. doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkae047. PMID: 38889291; PMCID: PMC11272047.
Salinas Cisneros G, Dvorak CC, Long-Boyle J, Kharbanda S, Shimano KA, Melton A, Chu J, Winestone LE, Dara J, Huang JN, Hermiston ML, Zinter M, Higham CS. Diagnosing and Grading of Sinusoidal Obstructive Syndrome after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant of Children, Adolescent and Young Adults treated in a Pediatric Institution with Pediatric Protocols. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Jul;30(7):690.e1-690.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2024.04.006. Epub 2024 Apr 16. PMID: 38631464.
Lin JJ, Evans EM, Praxedes K, Agrawal AK, Winestone LE. Financial assistance and other financial coping strategies after a pediatric cancer diagnosis. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Apr;71(4):e30890. doi: 10.1002/pbc.30890. Epub 2024 Feb 1. PMID: 38302828.
Ruiz J, Li Y, Cao L, Huang YV, Tam V, Griffis HM, Winestone LE, Fisher BT, Alonzo TA, Wang YJ, Dang AT, Kolb EA, Glanz K, Getz KD, Aplenc R, Seif AE. Association of the social disorganization index with time to first septic shock event in children with acute myeloid leukemia. Cancer. 2024 Mar 15;130(6):962-972. doi: 10.1002/cncr.35109. Epub 2023 Nov 20. PMID: 37985388; PMCID: PMC10922804.
Wadhwani SI, Pantell MS, Winestone LE. Subspecialty Pediatrics: An Unmet Opportunity to Address Unmet Social Risks. Acad Pediatr. 2024 Mar;24(2):204-207. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2023.07.009. Epub 2023 Jul 26. PMID: 37499795; PMCID: PMC10811277.
Zinter MS, Brazauskas R, Strom J, Chen S, Bo-Subait S, Sharma A, Beitinjaneh A, Dimitrova D, Guilcher G, Preussler J, Myers K, Bhatt NS, Ringden O, Hematti P, Hayashi RJ, Patel S, De Oliveira SN, Rotz S, Badawy SM, Nishihori T, Buchbinder D, Hamilton B, Savani B, Schoemans H, Sorror M, Winestone L, Duncan C, Phelan R, Dvorak CC. Intensive care risk and long-term outcomes in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients. Blood Adv. 2024 Feb 27;8(4):1002-1017. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023011002. PMID: 38127268; PMCID: PMC10879681.
Metayer C, Morimoto LM, Kang AY, Sanchez Alvarez J, Winestone LE. Pre- and Postnatal Exposures to Tobacco Smoking and Survival of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic and Myeloid Leukemias in California, United States. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2024 Jan 9;33(1):117-125. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-23-0801. PMID: 37921440; PMCID: PMC11008006.
Winestone LE, Getz KD, Li Y, Burrows E, Scheurer ME, Tam V, Gramatges MM, Wilkes JJ, Miller TP, Seif AE, Rabin KR, Fisher BT, Aplenc R. Racial and ethnic disparities in acuity of presentation among children with newly diagnosed acute leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Jan;71(1):e30726. doi: 10.1002/pbc.30726. Epub 2023 Oct 19. PMID: 37856154.
Winestone LE, Bhojwani D, Ghorashian S, Muffly L, Leahy AB, Chao K, Steineck A, Rössig C, Lamble A, Maude SL, Myers R, Rheingold SR. INSPIRED Symposium Part 4A: Access to CAR T Cell Therapy in Unique Populations with B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Jan;30(1):56-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2023.10.005. Epub 2023 Oct 10. PMID: 37821078.
McNerney KO, Moskop A, Winestone LE, Baggott C, Talano JA, Schiff D, Rossoff J, Modi A, Verneris MR, Laetsch TW, Schultz L. Practice Preferences for Consolidative Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Following Tisagenlecleucel in Children and Young Adults with B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Jan;30(1):75.e1-75.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2023.10.004. Epub 2023 Oct 8. PMID: 37816472.
Taylor MR, Cole SW, Strom J, Brazauskas R, Baker KS, Phelan R, Buchbinder D, Hamilton B, Schoemans H, Shaw BE, Sharma A, Bhatt NS, Badawy SM, Winestone LE, Preussler JM, Mayo S, Jamani K, Nishihori T, Lee MA, Knight JM. Unfavorable transcriptome profiles and social disadvantage in hematopoietic cell transplantation: a CIBMTR analysis. Blood Adv. 2023 Nov 28;7(22):6830-6838. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023010746. PMID: 37773924; PMCID: PMC10679811.