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Hannelore Heemers

Associate Staff
Cancer Biology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
United States of America

Professor Medicine
Biography

Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. With few exceptions, the 30,000 prostate cancer deaths that occur annually in the United States are due to failure of androgen deprivation therapy.

Research Intrest

androgen receptor; mechanisms of androgen action; prostate cancer; coregulators; transcription; nuclear receptors.

List of Publications
L. Wei, J. Wang, E. Lampert, S. Schlanger, A. D. DePriest, Q. Hu, E. Cortes Gomez, M. Murakam, S.T. Glenn, J. Conroy, C. Morrison, G. Azabdaftari, J. L. Mohler, S. Liu, H.V. Heemers . Intratumoral and Intertumoral Genomic Heterogeneity of Multifocal Localized Prostate Cancer Impacts Molecular Classifications and Genomic Prognosticators. Eur Urol 2017; 71(2):183-192.
H.M. Itkonen, M. Brown, A. Urbanucci, G. Tredwell, C.H. Lau, S. Barfeld, C. Hart, I.J. Guldvik, M. Takhar, H.V. Heemers, N. Erho, K. Bloch, E. Davicioni, R. Derua, E. Waelkens, J.L. Mohler, N. Clarke, J.V. Swinnen, H.C. Keun, O.P. Rekvig, I.G. Mills. Lipid degradation promotes prostate cancer survival. Oncotarget, 2017.
C. Dai, H.V. Heemers, N. Sharifi. Androgen signaling in prostate cancer. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2017. In press.
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