Associate Professor, Department of Hematology/Oncology
Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer
Patients can receive a wide range of cancer care services at Fox Chase East Norriton. Medical oncology services offered at Fox Chase East Norriton include chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Jul 2012 – Jun 2013: Chief Fellow, Hematology/Oncology - University of Virginia Medical Center, Virginia
Aug 2011 – May 2012: Masters of Science in Clinical Research - Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Virginia
Jul 2010 – Jun 2013: Fellow, Hematology/Oncology - University of Virginia Medical Center, Virginia
Jun 2009 – Jun 2010: Chief Resident, Internal Medicine - Abington Memorial Hospital, Pennsylvania
Jun 2006 – Jun 2009: Postgraduate Year One through Three, Internal Medicine - Abington Memorial Hospital, Pennsylvania
Aug 2004 – Jun 2005: Postgraduate Year One, General Surgery - Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Sep 1997 – Jun 2004: Doctor of Medicine - College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
In March 2022, my sister discovered a lump in her breast completely by accident. I consider myself pretty on top of these things, but I decided to do an impromptu self-exam and I also found a lump. From there, both of us went through mammograms, biopsies, and countless appointments before being diagnosed with breast cancer within a week of each other. It was surreal.
Like a lot of people in 2020, my mammogram was postponed due to the pandemic.
When I finally had it done in 2021, I got a letter a few weeks later telling me I needed more scans. I went back in, and after they took some more scans, the radiologist told me I also needed an ultrasound.
By then I was thinking, “This is really weird, I’ve never had to do this before.”
When COVID-19 hit, I decided it was time to retire from a lifetime of teaching art and do more traveling with my partner Joe. We purchased a tiny trailer and spent a year and a half visiting family and scenic vistas. Our travels were put on hold, however, when I was diagnosed with not one but two cancers.
My name is Amy Wolf and I am a breast cancer survivor who was treated at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Before my diagnosis, I worked with preschoolers, acting as an aid for children with autism. After going in for an annual physical, my doctor felt a lump in my left breast, but when she placed my hand on it, I couldn’t feel it.
Jun 2024 [18F] Fluoroestradiol (FES)-PET as a predictive measure for endocrine therapy in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic breast cancer: An EAI142 study update.
Hannah Linden, Jennifer S. Winn, Michael Yu. ASCO abstract
Nov 2023 Validation of a Molecular Diagnostic Test for Circulating Tumor DNA by Next-Gen Sequencing
Sandra V. Fernandez, Yin Fei Tan, Shilpa Rao, Patricia Fittipaldi, Fathima Sheriff, Hossein Borghaei, Efrat Dotan, Jennifer S. Winn, Martin J. Edelman, Joseph Treat, Julia Judd, R. Katherine Alpaugh, Y. Lynn Wang, Jian Q. Yu, Mariusz Wasik and Don A. Baldwin
Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Nov; 24(21): 15779
Feb 2022 Prospective Study Comparing Self-Administered Geriatric Assessment to Provider’s Routine Clinical Assessment of Older Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated at Community Oncology Practices
Rino S. Seedor, Caitlin R. Meeker, Bianca Lewis, Elizabeth A. Handorf, Kelly A. Filchner, Ramya Varadarajan, Jack Hensold, Aruna Padmanabhan, Benjamin Negin, Kenneth Blankstein, Neha R. Chawla, Wei (Frank) Song, Jessica Epstein, Jennifer Winn, Lori J. Goldstein, Efrat Dotan
The Oncologist
Deb 2021 Genetic Variants and Tumor Immune Microenvironment: Clues for Targeted Therapies in Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
Maria F. Arisi, Yulan Gong, Rageswari Nagarathinam, Lorenzo Gerratana, Jennifer S. Winn, Michael Slifker, Jianming Pei, Kathy Q Cai, Zachary Hasse, Elias Obeid, Julio Noriega, Christopher Sabastiano, Eric Ross, Katherine Alpaugh, Massimo Cristofanilli, and Sandra V. Fernandez
Poster presentation at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS)
Dec 2020 E2112: Randomized Phase III Trial of Endocrine Therapy Plus Entinostat/Placebo in Patients with Hormone Receptor-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer. A trial of ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group
Connolly RM, Zhao F, Miller KD, Lee MJ, Piekarz RL, Smith KL, Brown-Glaberman UA, Winn JS, Lyss AP, Onitilo AA, Burkard ME, Budd GT, Levine EG, Royce ME, Kaufman PA, Thomas A, Wolff AC, Sparano JA
Oral and Poster presentation at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), submitted for publication
Jun 2020 Prospective Study Comparing Self-Administered Geriatric Assessment to Provider’s Routine Clinical Assessment of Older Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Treated at Community Oncology Practices
Rino S. Seedor, MD; Caitlin R. Meeker, MPH; Bianca Lewis; Elizabeth A. Handorf, PhD; Kelly Filchner, MSN, RN, OCN, CCRC; Jennifer Winn, MD, Lori J. Goldstein, MD; Efrat Dotan, MD
Poster presentation at American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Feb 2020 Genetic Variants Detected Using Cell-Free DNA from Blood and Tumor Samples in Patients with Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Jennifer S. Winn, Zachary Hasse, Michael Slifker, Jianming Pei, Sebastian M. Arisi-Fernandez, Jacqueline N. Talarchek, Elias Obeid, Donald A. Baldwin, Yulan Gong, Eric Ross, Massimo Cristofanilli, R. Katherine Alpaugh and Sandra V. Fernandez
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020 Feb 14;21(4):1290
Apr 2019 Germline Variants in Women with Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
Steven Van Laere, Jianming Pei, Jacqueline N. Talarchek, Jennifer S. Winn, Elias Obeid, Katherine Alpaugh, Massimo Cristofanilli, Sandra V. Fernandez
Poster presentation at American Association for Clinical Research (AACR)
Apr 2019 Assessment and Management of Older patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Among Community Oncologists in The United States
Efrat Dotan, Elizabeth Handorf, Caitlin R. Meeker, Bianca Lewis, Kelly Filchner, Jennifer S. Winn, Lori J. Goldstein
Poster presentation at National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
JNCCN 17(3.5):BPI19-011
Nov 2018 Phase I Trial of Interferon-gamma (IFN-r) Combined with Nivolumab (nivo) in Patients (pts) with Advanced Solid Tumors
Matthew Zibelman, Alexander W. MacFarlane, Kimberly Costello, Thomas McGowan, John O’Neill, Rutika Kokate, Igor Astsaturov, Hossein Borghaei, Christina Chu, Crystal S. Denlinger, Efrat Dotan, Daniel M. Geynisman, Angela Jain, Lainie Martin, Elias Obeid, Joseph Treat, Namrata Vijayvergia, Rohit Walia, Jennifer Winn, Jeffery Nieves, Amy Grahn, Jeffrey Sherman, Karthik Devarajan, Karen Ruth, R. Katherine Alpaugh, Essel Al Salem Dulaimi, Edna Cukierman, Kerry S. Campbell, Elizabeth R. Plimack
Poster presentation at Society of Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), abstract P396
Nov 2018 Assessment and Management of Older patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Among Community Oncologists in The United States
Efrat Dotan, Elizabeth Handorf, Caitlin R. Meeker, Bianca Lewis, Kelly Filchner, Jennifer S. Winn, Lori J. Goldstein
Poster presentation at Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG)
Jun 2018 The Approach of Community Oncology Providers Towards Pre-treatment Assessment of Older Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC). Efrat Dotan, Elizabeth Handorf, Caitlin R. Meeker, Bianca Lewis, Kelly Filchner, Jennifer S. Winn, Lori J. Goldstein.
Poster presentation at American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Apr 2018 Genomic Profiling of Cell Free DNA (cfDNA) from Patients with Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Jianming Pei, PhD Jacqueline N. Talarchek, Jennifer Winn, MD, MS, Katherine R. Alpaugh, PhD, Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, and Sandra V. Fernandez, PhD
Poster presentation at American Association for Clinical Research (AACR), abstract 4593
Jan 2018 – Jul 2020 I4R Foundation
To support research and education on prevention and treatment of cancer through Individualized Interventions to Improve Immune Response, the I4R approach
Oct 2016 - present Establishment of Cell Lines from Inflammatory Breast Cancer and Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients
Sandra V. Fernandez, PhD, R. Katherine Alpaugh, PhD, Jennifer S Winn, MD, MS
Ongoing investigator initiated studies, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Aug 2016 Can Precision Medicine Help Wipe Out Cancer Misdiagnosis?
Expert commentary, Genome Magazine
Jun 2016 Lobular Breast Cancer and Abdominal Metastases: a Retrospective Review and Impact on Survival
Jennifer S Winn, MD, MS, MG Baker, MS, IS Fanous, MD, JK Slack-Davis, MD, KA Atkins, MD, Patrick Dillon, MD
Oncology. 2016;91(3):135-42
Aug 2015 CSI: Cancer Signature Investigation: ERBB2 (HER2)-Activating Mutation and Amplification Positive Breast Carcinoma Mimicking Lung Primary
Jennifer Shih, MD, MS, Babar Bashir, MD, Karen S. Gustafson, MD, PhD, Mark Andrake, PhD, Roland L. Dunbrack, PhD, Lori J. Goldstein, MD, FASCO, Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD
J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2015 Aug;13(8):947–952
May 2015 – present ECOG EA1131, A Randomized Phase III Post-Operative Trial of Platinum Based Chemotherapy Vs. Observation in Patients with Residual Triple-Negative Basal-Like Breast Cancer following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Site Primary Investigator at Fox Chase Cancer Center
Dec 2014 Commentary on CALGB 40101: Comparison of doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide versus single-agent paclitaxel as adjuvant therapy for breast cancer in women with 0-3 positive axillary nodes: CALGB 40101 (Alliance)
Jennifer Shih, MD, MS, Lori J. Goldstein, MD, FASCO
Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly Vol. 26, No. 1, Elsevier
Jun 2014 Collaboration with Dr. Jose Russo, MD, FACP, on a phase I clinical trial using DNMT inhibitor (SGI-110, Astex) in treating metastatic breast cancer
May 2014 - present ECOG2112, A Randomized Phase III Trial of Endocrine Therapy plus Entinostat/Placebo in Postmenopausal Patients with Hormone Receptor-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer
Site Primary Investigator at Fox Chase Cancer Center
May 2013 Lobular Breast Cancer and Intra-abdominal Metastases: a Retrospective Review and Impact on Survival
Shih, Yu-chen, MD, MS, Baker, Mary Grace, BA, Dillon, Patrick, MD
Poster presentation at the 2013 Department of Medicine Carey-Marshall-Thorner Scholar Day and Research Day, University of Virginia, VA
Dec 2012 Retrospective Database Review of Outcomes of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma and Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast
Shih, Yu-chen, MD, MS, Dillon, Patrick, MD
Poster presentation at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, TX
Nov 2011 The Rising Cost of Cancer
Shih, Yu-chen, MD
Poster presentation at the 2012 Department of Medicine Carey-Marshall-Thorner Scholar Day and Research Day, University of Virginia, VA
July 2011 Mixed Warm and Cold Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in a Pregnant Patient
Jain, Raj, MD, Shih, Yu-chen, MD, Davidson, Kelly, MD
Poster presentation at the 2012 Department of Medicine Carey-Marshall-Thorner Scholar Day and Research Day, University of Virginia, VA
Oct 2010 Cold-Induced Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
Shih, Yu-chen, MD
Oral case presentation, Virginia Association of Hematologists and Oncologists Membership Conference, Williamsburg, VA
Nov 2009 Compliance in Preventing Venous Thromboembolism Using the American College of Chest Physicians 2008 Guidelines
Shih, Yu-chen, MD, Eisenstaedt, Richard, MD, FACP
Poster presentation, American Medical Association AMA-RFS Poster Research Symposium, Houston, TX
May 2009 Compliance in Preventing Venous Thromboembolism Using the American College of Chest Physicians 2008 Guidelines
Shih, Yu-chen, MD, Eisenstaedt, Richard, MD, FACP
“Widener-Dixon Award, First Place”
Excellence in Original Completed Research, Full Manuscript
Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, PA
Sep 2007 Bevacizumab-Aggravated Gemcitabine-Induced Thrombotic Microangiopathy
Go, Mylene, MD, Shih, Yu-chen, MD, Faris, Mary Rachel, MD
May 2007 Effect of Gastric Acid Suppression on Morbidity and Mortality of Clostridium difficile Infection
Shah, Pranav MD, Shih, Yu-chen MD, Hassey, Joseph MD
Oral presentation, Abington Memorial Hospital, PA
Mar 2005 Laparoscopic Hepatectomy for Hepatic Tumor: Experiences at Taipei Medical University Hospital
Shih, Yu-chen, MD, Huang, Ming-te, MD
“Best Video of the Year”
Oral presentation, The Digestive Endoscopy Society of Taiwan
Annual of Taiwan Surgical Association, 2005
Mar 2005 Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernia with Stomach Incarceration in a Nonagenarian and an Octogenarian
Shih, Yu-chen, MD, Su, Yu-kai, MD, Hsu, Wen-hsien, MD
Poster presentation
Annual of Taiwan Surgical Association, 2005
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