Research Program: Genetic Mechanisms of Cancer
Professor, Department of Surgery
Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Stanley M. Goldberg, M.D., Endowed Chair in Colon and Rectal Surgery

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

• M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1979; Columbia University, New York, NY
• Residency: Department of Surgery 1980-1981 & 1983-1987; University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN
• Department of Medicine, 1981-1982; University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis, MN
• Fellowship: Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery, 1987-1988; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Research Interests

Optimizing preoperative imaging of rectal cancer using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and using magnetic resonance spectroscopy to identify residual rectal cancer following neoadjuvant therapy. Establishing a clinical and research registry for patients at high risk for hereditary cancer, and investigating the use of a family cancer screening tool for individual risk assessment. HPV-related anal neoplasia.

Selected Publications

Klas JV, Rothenberger DA, Wong WD, Madoff RD. Malignant tumors of the anal canal: the spectrum of disease, treatment, and outcomes. Cancer 1999;85:1686-1693.

Madoff RD, Parker SC, Varma MG, Lowry AC. Fecal incontinence in adults. Lancet 2004;364:621-632.

Komuta K, Batts K, Jessurun J, Snover D, Garcia-Aguilar J, Rothenberger D, Madoff R. Interobserver variability in the pathological assessment of malignant colorectal polyps. Br J Surg 2004;91:1479-1484.

Lee SH, Hernandez de Anda E, Finne CO, Madoff RD, Garcia-Aguilar J. The effect of circumferential tumor location in clinical outcomes of rectal cancer patients treated with total mesorectal excision. Dis Colon Rectum 2005;48:2249-2257.

Maykel JA, Hagerman G, Mellgren AF, Li SY, Alavi K, Baxter NN, Madoff RD. Crohn's Colitis: The incidence of dysplasia and adenocarcinoma in surgical patients. Dis Colon Rectum 2006; 49:950-957.

Ricciardi R, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA, Baxter NN. Population-based analyses of lymph node metastases in colorectal cancer. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2006;4:1522-1527.

Ricciardi R, Virnig BA, Madoff RD, Rothenberger DA, Baxter NN. The status of radical proctectomy and sphincter-sparing surgery in the United States. Dis Colon Rectum 2007;50:1119-27.