Research Programs: Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, Prevention & Etiology
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

nisse002@umn.edu
952-925-2423 — office

Research Interests

Current research focuses on quality of life in cancer patients, and the continuity of care for cancer survivors following treatment.

Selected Publications

Swenson, K.K., Mahipal A., Nissen, M.J., Tuttle, T.M., Heaton, K., Lally, R.M., Spomer, A., and Lee, M.W. Axillary recurrence following sentinel lymphnode dissection for breast cancer. Cancer, in press.

Swenson, K.K., Nissen, M.J., Ceronsky, C., Swenson, L., Lee, M.W., and Tuttle, T.M. (2002). Comparison of side effects between sentinel lymph node and axillary lymph node dissection. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 9, 745-753.

McPherson, C.P., and Nissen, M.J. (2002). Evaluating a risk-based model for mammographic screening of women in their forties. Cancer,94, 2830-2835.

Nissen, M.J., Swenson, K.K., and Kind, E.A. (2002). Quality of life after postmastectomy breast reconstruction. Oncology Nursing Forum, 29, 547-553.

Nissen, M.J., Swenson, K.K., Ritz, L.J., Farrell, J.B., Sladek, M.L., and Lally, R.M. (2001). Quality of life after breast cancer surgery: A comparison of three surgical treatments. Cancer, 91, 1238 — 1246. Abstract also published in JAMA, 2001, 285, 2562.