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Fangdi Sun, MD

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Title(s)Volunteer Clinical Instructor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
AddressLocation Required, #001
Phone415-885-7788
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0002-5917-6209 Additional info
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    University of California, San Francisco, CAChief Residency2022Internal Medicine
    University of California, San Francisco, CAResidency2021Internal Medicine
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MAMD2018
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MABS2014Biological Engineering

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    1. Cisplatin, immunotherapy, and chemoradiation in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: How far should one trial move the needle? Med. 2025 Nov 14; 6(11):100917. Sun F, Colevas AD. PMID: 41240897.
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    2. The evolving landscape of leptomeningeal metastases from NSCLC: an international, contemporary, multicenter cohort study. Ann Oncol. 2026 Jan; 37(1):104-116. Zheng MM, Xia Y, Pan K, Sun F, Tan AC, Dong XR, Tu HY, Tang LB, Li YS, Yin K, Borgeaud M, Singhal S, Zhu E, Zhang J, Nilsson M, Wu J, Gibbons DL, Wakelee H, Neal JW, Lee J, Vaporciyan AA, Ringsurongkawong W, Tran HT, Zhang RZ, Zhang T, Zhou Q, Zhong WZ, Li W, Zhang YC, Riess JW, Addeo A, Heymach JV, Myall N, Tan D, Wu YL, Le X. PMID: 41125209.
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    3. Clinical factors and molecular co-alterations impact outcomes in patients receiving first-line osimertinib for EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer. 2025 Oct; 208:108747. Sun F, Banwait MK, Singhal S, Herrmann A, Piotrowska Z, Yun K, Bazhenova L, Ullah AT, Guo EW, Wakelee HA, Neal JW, Das MS, Ramchandran KJ, Roy M, Diehn M, Myall NJ. PMID: 40957338; PMCID: PMC12937006.
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    4. Brief Report: Safety of Pulse-Dose Osimertinib for Treatment of Leptomeningeal Disease or Refractory Brain Metastases in EGFR-Mutated Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2025 Nov; 26(7):603-609.e2. Sun F, Nagpal S, Singhal S, Neal JW, Wakelee HA, Myall NJ, Bolan P, Riess JW, Gandara DR, Das MS. PMID: 40885626; PMCID: PMC12937019.
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    5. Napsin A-specific T-cell clonotypes are associated with improved clinical outcomes in patients receiving checkpoint immunotherapy for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. J Immunother Cancer. 2025 Jul 15; 13(7). Miller NJ, Baik C, Neal JW, Sun F, Santana-Davila R, Lee S, Eaton KD, Martins RG, Rodriguez C, Wakelee H, Padda SK, Sotillo E, Konnick EQ, Camai A, Pisarenko T, Nair VS, Mackall C, Houghton AM, Chiou SH, Tseng D. PMID: 40664448; PMCID: PMC12265838.
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    6. Characteristics of Short-Term Survivors With ALK or ROS1-Altered Metastatic NSCLC. JTO Clin Res Rep. 2025 Nov; 6(11):100876. Liu KL, Watts A, Grady CB, Liu G, Patel D, Balaratnam K, Liu SV, Montenegro GB, Nie Y, Nieva J, Herrmann A, Marrone K, Lam V, Sun F, Dowell J, Schwartzman W, Velcheti V, Fankuchen O, Ullah T, Villaruz L, Nguyen M, Weiss J, Patel S, Miller K, Iams W, Chandrasekhara K, Tompkins W, Patil T, Aisner D, Camidge DR, Hwang WT, Sun L, Marmarelis ME. PMID: 41235297; PMCID: PMC12605057.
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    7. FLAURA2: evidence for escalated first-line therapy in EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer with central nervous system metastases. Transl Cancer Res. 2025 Jun 30; 14(6):3295-3301. Sun F, Neal JW, Myall NJ. PMID: 40687261; PMCID: PMC12268507.
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    8. Osimertinib vs. Afatinib in 1L therapy of atypical EGFR-mutated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC): A multi-institution, real-world survival analysis. Lung Cancer. 2025 May; 203:108551. Barsouk A, Elghawy O, Watts A, Reed-Guy L, Tompkins W, Chandrasekhara K, Grady CB, Iams W, Sun F, Liu G, Patel D, Nieva JJ, Marrone KA, Velcheti V, Liu SV, Patil T, Weiss J, Schwartzman W, Villaruz LC, Hermann A, Aisner DL, Hwang WT, Camidge DR, Sun L, Singh AP, Cohen RB, Aggarwal C, Langer CJ, Marmarelis ME. PMID: 40262226.
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    9. Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy to Treat Temozolomide-Associated Hypermutation in Advanced Atypical Carcinoid Tumor of the Lung. JCO Precis Oncol. 2022 06; 6:e2200009. Sun F, Grenert JP, Tan L, Van Ziffle J, Joseph NM, Mulvey CK, Bergsland E. PMID: 35737914; PMCID: PMC9249272.
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    10. In Response to: "Comparing Addition of Radiotherapy in EGFR- and ALK-Positive NSCLC With Brain Metastases: Are We Evaluating the Optimal Endpoint?" J Thorac Oncol. 2022 02; 17(2):e12-e14. Thomas NJ, Myall NJ, Sun F, Patil T, Mushtaq R, Yu C, Sinha S, Pollom EL, Nagpal S, Camidge DR, Rusthoven CG, Braunstein SE, Wakelee HA, McCoach CE. PMID: 35074229.
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    11. Capturing what matters: A retrospective observational study of advance care planning documentation at an academic medical center during the COVID-19 pandemic. Palliat Med. 2022 02; 36(2):342-347. Sun F, Lipinsky DeGette R, Cummings EC, Deng LX, Hauser KA, Kopp Z, Penner JC, Scott BS, Raffel KE, Kantor MA. PMID: 34920691.
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    12. Brain Metastases in EGFR- and ALK-Positive NSCLC: Outcomes of Central Nervous System-Penetrant Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Alone Versus in Combination With Radiation. J Thorac Oncol. 2022 01; 17(1):116-129. Thomas NJ, Myall NJ, Sun F, Patil T, Mushtaq R, Yu C, Sinha S, Pollom EL, Nagpal S, Camidge DR, Rusthoven CG, Braunstein SE, Wakelee HA, McCoach CE. PMID: 34455066.
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    13. Therapeutic Advances in the Management of Patients with Advanced RET Fusion-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Curr Treat Options Oncol. 2021 06 24; 22(8):72. Sun F, McCoach CE. PMID: 34165651.
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    14. Incidence of peripheral edema in patients receiving PI3K/mTOR/CDK4/6 inhibitors for metastatic breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Jun; 175(3):649-658. Daniell KM, Bardia A, Sun F, Roberts SA, Brunelle CL, Gillespie TC, Sayegh HE, Naoum GE, Juric D, Isakoff SJ, Fitzgerald DM, Taghian AG. PMID: 30919166.
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    15. Perometry versus simulated circumferential tape measurement for the detection of breast cancer-related lymphedema. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Nov; 172(1):83-91. Sun F, Hall A, Tighe MP, Brunelle CL, Sayegh HE, Gillespie TC, Daniell KM, Taghian AG. PMID: 30062571; PMCID: PMC6191334.
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    16. Letter to the editor of "Current and future perspectives on the evaluation, prevention and conservative management of breast cancer related lymphoedema: A best practice guideline" from N. Gebruers and colleagues. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2018 06; 225:255-256. Sun F, Brunelle CL, Daniell KM, Gillespie TC, Sayegh HE, Taghian AG. PMID: 29573838.
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    17. Amino Acid Uptake Measured by [18F]AFETP Increases in Response to Arginine Starvation in ASS1-Deficient Sarcomas. Theranostics. 2018; 8(8):2107-2116. Prudner BC, Sun F, Kremer JC, Xu J, Huang C, Sai KKS, Morgan Z, Leeds H, McConathy J, Van Tine BA. PMID: 29721066; PMCID: PMC5928874.
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    18. Cytosolic delivery of siRNA by ultra-high affinity dsRNA binding proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jul 27; 45(13):7602-7614. Yang NJ, Kauke MJ, Sun F, Yang LF, Maass KF, Traxlmayr MW, Yu Y, Xu Y, Langer RS, Anderson DG, Wittrup KD. PMID: 28641400; PMCID: PMC5570165.
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    19. The need for preoperative baseline arm measurement to accurately quantify breast cancer-related lymphedema. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2016 06; 157(2):229-240. Sun F, Skolny MN, Swaroop MN, Rawal B, Catalano PJ, Brunelle CL, Miller CL, Taghian AG. PMID: 27154787.
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