Research Program: Women's Cancer
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

argenta@umn.edu
612-626-3111 — office

Dr. Argenta's clinical profile
(University of Minnesota Physicians Web site)

Research Interests

Clinical and surgical management of gynecologic malignancies. Also, the treatment and prevention of ovarian cancer, with specific interest in using antiangiogenic agents in management of metastatic tumors.

Selected Publications

Dusenbery KE, Potish RA, Argenta PA, Judson PL. On the apparent failure of adjuvant pelvic radiotherapy to improve survival for women with uterine sarcomas confined to the uterus. Am J Clin Oncol. 2005;28:295-300.

Argenta PA, Kubicek GJ, Dusenberry KE, Judson PL, Downs LS, Carson LF, Boente MP. Widespread lymph node metastases in a young woman with FIGO stage IA1 squamous cervical cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 2005;97:659-661.

Geller MA, Argenta P, Bradley W, Dusenbery KE, Brooker D, Downs LS Jr, Judson PL, Carson LF, Boente MP. Treatment and recurrence patterns in endometrial stromal sarcomas and the relation to c-kit expression. Gynecol Oncol. 2004;95:632-636.

Downs LS Jr, Judson PL, Argenta PA, Carson LF, Boente MP. A phase I study of ifosfamide, paclitaxel, and carboplatin in advanced and recurrent cervical cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 2004;95:347-351.

Bradley WH, Boente MP, Brooker D, Argenta PA, Downs LS, Judson PL, Carson LF. Hysteroscopy and cytology in endometrial cancer. Obstet Gynecol. 2004;104:1030-1033.