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Research and Clinical Interests

I am interested in neoplastic diseases of the breast including ductal carcinoma in situ and its progression to microinvasive and invasive carcinoma. Also I am interested in the development and progression of malignant melanoma.

Selected Publications

Wich LG, Hamilton HK, Shapiro RL, Pavlick A, Berman RS, Polsky D, Goldberg JD, Hernando E, Manga P, Krogsgaard M, Kamino H, Darvishian F, Lee P, Orlow SJ, Ostrer H, Bhardwaj N, Osman I. Developing a multidisciplinary prospective melanoma biospecimen repository to advance translational research. Am J Translational Res. 2009;1(1):35-43.

Yu JZ, Warycha MA, Christos PJ, Darvishian F, Yee H, Kamino H, Berman RS, Shapiro RL, Buckley MT, Liebes LF, Pavlick AC, Polsky D, Brooks PC, Osman I. Assessing the clinical utility of measuring Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Proteins in tissues and sera of melanoma patients. J Transl Med. 2008 Nov;70. Epub 2008 Nov 24. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 19025658. doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-6-70.

Warycha MA, MD1, Christos PJ, Mazumdar M, Darvishian F, Shapiro RL, Berman RS, Pavlick AC, Kopf AW, Polsky D, Osman I. Changes in the presentation of nodular and superficial spreading melanomas over 35 years. Cancer. 2008 Nov;113(12):3341-48. Epub 2008 Nov 5. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18988292. doi: 10.1002/cncr.23955.

Buchanan CL, Flynn LW, Murray MP, Darvishian F, Cranor ML, Fey JV, King TA, Tan LK, Sclafani LM. Is pleomorphic lobular carcinoma really a distinct clinical entity? J Surg Oncol. 2008 Oct 1;98(5):314-7. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18668643. doi: 10.1002/jso.21121.

Guth AA, Mercado C, Roses DF, Darvishian F, Singh B, Cangiarella JF. Microinvasive Breast Cancer and the Role of Sentinel Node Biopsy: An Institutional Experience and Review of the Literature. Breast J. 2008 Jul;14(4):335-9. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18537917. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2008.00594.x.

Cangiarella J, Guth A, Axelrod D, Darvishian F, Singh B, Simsir A, Roses D, Mercado C. Is surgical excision necessary for the management of atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ diagnosed on core needle biopsy? A report of 38 cases and review of the literature. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2008 Jun;132(6):979-83. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18517282.

Laser J, Cangiarella J, Singh B, Melamed J, Chiriboga L, Yee H, Darvishian F. Invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: The role of endothelial lymphatic marker D2-40. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2008;38(2):99-104. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18469353.

Ende L, Mercado C, Axelrod D, Darvishian F, Levine P, Cangiarella J. Intraparenchymal leiomyoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2007;37(3):268-73. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17709693.

Hajdu SI, Darvishian F. The road to discovery of an uncommon tracheobronchial tumor. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2007;37(4):375-7. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18000297. PMCID: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=18000297&cmd=showdetailview.

Darvishian F, Ginsberg MS, Klimstra DS, Brogi E. Carcinoid tumorlets simulate pulmonary metastases in women with breast cancer. Hum Pathol. 2006 Jul;37(7):839-44. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16784983.

Darvishian F, Stier EA, Soslow RA, Lin O. Immunoreactivity of p16 in anal cytology specimens: histologic correlation. Cancer. 2006 Feb 25;108(1):66-71. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16404747.

Wang J, Darvishian F. Extramedullary hematopoiesis in breast after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast carcinoma. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2006;36(4):475-8. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17127738.

Corvera CU, Blumgart LH, Darvishian F, Klimstra DS, DeMatteo R, Fong Y, D'Angelica M, Jarnagin WR. Clinical and pathologic features of proximal biliary strictures masquerading as hilar cholangiocarcinoma. J Am Coll Surg. 2005 Dec;201(6):862-9. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16310689.

Darvishian F, Lin O. Myoepithelial cell-rich neoplasms: cytologic features of benign and malignant lesions. Cancer Cytopathol. 2004 Dec 25;102(6):355-61. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15476290. doi: 10.1002/cncr.20642.

Darvishian F, Hummer AJ, Thaler HT, Bhargava R, Linkov I, Asher M, Soslow RA. Serous endometrial cancers that mimic endometrioid adenocarcinomas: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of a group of problematic cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2004 Dec;28(12):1568-78. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15577675.

Organizational Associations

The American Society of Breast Disease; Association of Clinical Scientists; College of American Pathologists

Selected Awards

Attending of the year at New York University Medical Center

Hospital Affiliations

Tisch Hospital