Research Program: Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship
Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery

byueh@umn.edu

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

Dr. Yueh is professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery. He did his residency training at Johns Hopkins University and received additional research training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University.

Research Interests

Head and neck cancer survivorship and treatment effectiveness.

Selected Publications

Yueh B, Feinstein AR, Weaver EM, Sasaki CT, Concato J. Prognostic staging system for recurrent, persistent, and second primary cancers of the oral cavity and oropharynx. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 124(9):975-981, Sep 1998.

Weymuller EA, Yueh B, Deleyiannis FWB, Kuntz A, Alsarraf R, Coltrera MD. Quality of life in head and neck cancer: lessons learned from 549 prospectively evaluated patients. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 126(3):329-35, Mar 2000.

Schwartz SR, Patrick DL, Yueh B. Quality of life outcomes in evaluation of head and neck cancer treatments. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 127(6):673-678, Jun 2001.

Schwartz SR, Yueh B, McDougall JK, Daling JR, Schwartz SM. Human papillomavirus infection and survival in oral squamous cell carcinoma: a population based study. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 125(1):1-9, Jul 2001.

Rogers SN, Gwanne S, Lowe D, Humphris G, Yueh B, Weymuller EA. The addition of mood and anxiety domains to the University of Washington Quality of Life scale (#01-139). Head and Neck 24(6):521-529, Jun 2002.

Nguyen TV, Yueh B. Weight Loss Predicts Mortality After Recurrent Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancers. Cancer 95(3):553-62, Aug 2002.

Yueh B, Weaver EM, Bradley E, Krumholz HM, Heagerty P, Conley A, Sasaki CT. A critical examination of critical pathways in head and neck cancer. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129(1): 89-95, Jan 2003.

Schwartz DL, Rajendran J, Yueh B, Coltrera MD, Anzai Y, Krohn K, Eary J. Staging of head and neck squamous cell cancer with extended-field FDG-PET. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129(11): 1173-8, Nov 2003.

Schwartz SR, McDowell J, Yueh B. Numeracy and the shortcomings of utility assessment in head and neck cancer patients. Head Neck 26(5):401-7, May 2004.

Schwartz SR, Yueh B, Maynard C, Daley J, Henderson W, Khuri SF. Predictors of wound complications after laryngectomy: a study of over 2000 patients. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 131(1):61-8, Jul 2004.

Schwartz DL, Ford E, Rajendran J, Yueh B, Coltrera MD, Virgin J, Anzai Y, Haynor D, Lewellyn B, Mattes D, Meyer J, Phillips M, Leblanc M, Kinahan P, Krohn K, Eary J, Laramore GE. FDG-PET/CT imaging for preradiotherapy staging of head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 61(1):129-36, Jan 2005.

Davis GE, Schwartz SR, Veenstra DL, Yueh B. Cost comparison of surgery versus organ preservation for laryngeal cancer. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 131(1):21-6, Jan 2005.

Forastiere AA, Ang K, Brizel D, Brockstein BE, Dunphy F, Eisele DW, Goepfert H, Hicks WL Jr, Kies MS, Lydiatt WM, Maghami E, McCaffrey T, Mittal BB, Pfister DG, Pinto HA, Posner MR, Ridge JA, Samant S, Schuller DE, Shah JP, Spencer S, Trotti A 3rd, Wheeler RH 3rd, Wolf GT, Worden F, Yueh B. Head and neck cancers. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 3(3):316-91, May 2005

Schwartz DL, Montgomery RB, Yueh B, Donahue M, Anzai Y, Canby R, Buelna R, Anderson L, Boyd C, Hutson J, Keegan K. Phase I and initial phase II results from a trial investigating weekly docetaxel and carboplatin given neoadjuvantly and then concurrently with concomitant boost radiotherapy for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Cancer 103(12):2534-43, Jun 2005.

Davis GE, Bryson CL, Yueh B, McDonell MB, Micek MA, Fihn SD. Prevalence of use of alternative medicine and impact in delay of treatment among veterans with head and neck cancer. Head Neck 28:926-931, Oct 2006.

Vartanian JG, Carvalho AL, Yueh B, Lemos C, Toyota J, McDowell JA, Weymuller EA, Kowalski LP. Brazilian-Portuguese Validation of the University of Washington Quality of Life questionnaire for head and neck cancer patients. Head Neck 28(12):1115-21, Dec 2006.

Choi P, Jordan CD, Mendez E, Houck J, Yueh B, Farwell DG, Futran N, Chen C. Examination of Oral Cancer Biomarkers by Tissue Microarray Analysis. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008 May;134(5):539-46.

Misono S, Weiss NS, Fann JR, Redman M, Yueh B. Incidence of Suicide in Persons With Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print]

Chen C, Méndez E, Houck J, Fan W, Lohavanichbutr P, Doody D, Yueh B, Futran ND, Upton M, Farwell DG, Schwartz SM, Zhao LP. Gene expression profiling identifies genes predictive of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Aug;17(8):2152-62. Epub 2008 Jul 31.