Research Program: Women's Cancer
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology
Owen H. and Sarah Wangensteen Chair in Experimental Surgery

tuttl006@umn.edu
612-625-2991 — office
Preferred method of contact: Phone my assistant Tina Russell at 612-626-2991 or email me directly

• M.D.: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1990
• Residency: The Medical College of Virginia, 1994
• Fellowship: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1996

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

Research Interests

• Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
• Radiofrequency Ablation of Breast Cancer
• Partial Breast Radiation

Active Clinical Research Protocols:

1. ACOSOG Z0011 (local PI)
2. Sunbelt Melanoma Trial (local PI)
3. Hyperthermic Intraoperative Peritoneal Chemotherapy for Gastrointestinal Malignancies (PI) Brachytherapy for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (PI)
4. Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Before Preoperative Chemotherapy: Factors Predicting Non-Sentinel Lymph Node Metastases (PI)
5. Laparoscopic Hyperthermic Peritoneal Perfusion for Malignant Ascites (PI)
6. ACOSOG Z9031 (local PI)
7. MRI assessment of Tumor Necrosis After Radiofrequency Ablation for Breast Cancer (PI)

Selected Publications

Tuttle T, Zogakis T, Dunst C, Zera R, and Singletary S. A review of technical aspects of sentinel lymph node identification for breast cancer. J Am Coll Surg 2002;195:261-268.

Swenson K, Nissen M, Ceronsky C, Swenson L, Lee M, and Tuttle T. Comparison of side effects between sentinel lymph node and axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol 2002;9:745-753.

Wong SL, Chao C, Edwards MJ, Carlson DJ, Laidley A, Noyes RD, McGlothin T, Ley PB, Tuttle T, Schadt M, Pennington R, Legenza M, Morgan J, McMasters KM. Frequency of sentinel lymph node metastases in patients with favorable breast cancer histologic subtypes. Am J Surg 2002; 184:492-498.

Bullard K, Madoff R, Tuttle T, Baxter N, Finne C, Rothenberger D, Spencer M. Surgical therapy for anorectal melanoma. J Am Coll Surg 2003;196:206-211.

Chao C, Wong SL, Tuttle TM, Noyes RD, Carlson DJ, Ley P, McGlothin T, Laidley A, Simpson D, Edwards MJ, McMasters KM. Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer: improvement in results over. Breast J. 2004;10:337-344.

Baxter NN, Tuttle TM. Inadequacy of lymph node staging in gastric cancer patients: a population-based study. Ann Surg Oncol 2005;12:981-987.

Knutsen A, Sielaff T, Greeno E, Tuttle TM. Staged laparoscopic infusion of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy after cytoreductive surgery. J Gastrointest Surg 2006; Jul-Aug;10(7)1038-43.

Tuttle TM, Zhang Y, Greeno E, Knutsen A. Toxicity and Quality of Life after Cytoreductive Surgery Plus Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy. Ann Surg Oncol 2006; epub ahead of print.