William D. DeWys

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

William D. DeWys is a scholar working on Oncology, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William D. DeWys has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Oncology, 12 papers in Physiology and 11 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William D. DeWys's work include Nutrition and Health in Aging (9 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (7 papers) and Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology (5 papers). William D. DeWys is often cited by papers focused on Nutrition and Health in Aging (9 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (7 papers) and Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology (5 papers). William D. DeWys collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. William D. DeWys's co-authors include Charles P. Perlia, Douglass C. Tormey, Pierre R. Band, Karen Walters, Colin B. Begg, Charles G. Moertel, Harold O. Douglass, Joseph R. Bertino, Martin M. Oken and Roland T. Skeel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

William D. DeWys

52 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prognostic effect of weight loss prior tochemotherapy in cancer patients

1980 1.8k citations William D. DeWys, Colin B. Begg et al. The American Journal of Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William D. DeWys United States	24	2.0k	983	911	653	467	56	3.8k
Antonio Macciò Italy	38	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	519 0.6×	1.2k 1.8×	356 0.8×	145	4.4k
Clelia Madeddu Italy	44	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	558 0.6×	1.3k 2.0×	434 0.9×	158	5.4k
Vera C. Mazurak Canada	35	2.8k 1.4×	720 0.7×	983 1.1×	697 1.1×	647 1.4×	132	4.5k
J. Falconer United Kingdom	25	1.0k 0.5×	465 0.5×	572 0.6×	379 0.6×	381 0.8×	55	2.5k
Elena Massa Italy	29	1.1k 0.5×	632 0.6×	397 0.4×	718 1.1×	229 0.5×	90	2.8k
Johan Permert Sweden	37	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	393 0.4×	1.6k 2.5×	1.8k 3.8×	140	4.8k
Guohao Wu China	31	1.0k 0.5×	396 0.4×	336 0.4×	1.3k 1.9×	499 1.1×	123	2.8k
Vincenzo Lo Cascio Italy	41	817 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	241 0.3×	1.0k 1.6×	528 1.1×	120	4.6k
Yimin Zhu China	34	815 0.4×	436 0.4×	126 0.1×	988 1.5×	381 0.8×	146	3.5k
Alper Sönmez Türkiye	41	750 0.4×	308 0.3×	305 0.3×	734 1.1×	918 2.0×	169	4.9k

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Weiss, Raymond B., Donald M. Stablein, Franco M. Muggia, et al.. (1988). Toxicity comparisons between two chemotherapy regimens as adjuvant or salvage treatment in nonseminomatous testicular cancer. Cancer. 62(1). 18–23. 7 indexed citations

Williams, Stephen D., Donald M. Stablein, Lawrence H. Einhorn, et al.. (1988). Immediate Adjuvant Chemotherapy Versus Observation With Treatment at Relapse in Pathological Stage II Testicular Cancer. The Journal of Urology. 139(6). 1380–1380. 12 indexed citations

DeWys, William D.. (1987). Detection, staging, and monitoring of prostatic cancer: clinical overview and opportunities for research.. PubMed. 239. 613–30. 1 indexed citations

Lerner, H J, David A. Amato, Edwin D. Savlov, et al.. (1987). Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group: a comparison of adjuvant doxorubicin and observation for patients with localized soft tissue sarcoma.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 5(4). 613–617. 25 indexed citations

DeWys, William D., et al.. (1986). Clinical trials in cancer prevention. Cancer. 58(S8). 1954–1962. 34 indexed citations

DeWys, William D.. (1986). Chemoprevention Clinical Trials. CHEST Journal. 89(4). 364S–364. 2 indexed citations

Shimaoka, Katsutaro, David Schoenfeld, William D. DeWys, Richard H. Creech, & Ronald C. DeConti. (1985). A randomized trial of doxorubicin versus doxorubicin plus cisplatin in patients with advanced thyroid carcinoma. Cancer. 56(9). 2155–2160. 321 indexed citations

Greenwald, Peter, et al.. (1984). Vitamin A and Cancer. Science. 224(4647). 338–338.

DeWys, William D., Colin B. Begg, Harvey Brodovsky, Richard H. Creech, & Janardan D. Khandekar. (1983). A comparative clinical trial of adriamycin and 5‐fluorouracil in advanced prostatic cancer: Prognostic factors and response. The Prostate. 4(1). 1–11. 35 indexed citations

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DeWys, William D.. (1982). Pathophysiology of cancer cachexia: current understanding and areas for future research.. PubMed. 42(2 Suppl). 721s–726s. 83 indexed citations

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Donaldson, Sarah S., Margaret N. Wesley, Fereshteh Ghavimi, et al.. (1982). A prospective randomized clinical trial of total parenteral nutrition in children with cancer. Medical and Pediatric Oncology. 10(2). 129–139. 49 indexed citations

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DeWys, William D., et al.. (1981). Enteral parenteral nutrition in the care of the cancer patient.. PubMed. 246(15). 1725–7. 1 indexed citations

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Gelman, R. S., et al.. (1981). Adriamycin plus vincristine alone or with dibromodulcitol or ICRF-159 in metastatic breast cancer.. PubMed. 4(3). 253–60. 7 indexed citations

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DeWys, William D., Colin B. Begg, Philip T. Lavin, et al.. (1980). Prognostic effect of weight loss prior tochemotherapy in cancer patients. The American Journal of Medicine. 69(4). 491–497. 1785 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeWys, William D.. (1980). Nutritional Care of the Cancer Patient. JAMA. 244(4). 374–374. 35 indexed citations

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DeWys, William D.. (1979). Anorexia as a general effect of cancer. Cancer. 43(S5). 2013–2019. 101 indexed citations

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Taylor, Samuel G., David E. Bytell, William D. DeWys, Edward L. Applebaum, & George A. Sisson. (1978). Adjuvant Methotrexate and Leucovorin in Head and Neck Squamous Cancer: Two-year Follow-up of a Pilot Project. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 104(11). 647–651. 15 indexed citations

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DeWys, William D.. (1973). Streptozotocin for non-beta islet-cell cancer.. PubMed. 288(3). 162–162. 1 indexed citations

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DeWys, William D., et al.. (1973). Effects of streptozotocin on an islet cell carcinoma with hypercalcemia. The American Journal of Medicine. 55(5). 671–676. 17 indexed citations

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DeWys, William D., et al.. (1969). Kinetics of Cyclophosphamide Damage—Sublethal Damage Repair and Cell-Cycle-Related Sensitivity<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref>. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 112(1). 155–63. 20 indexed citations

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