Siteman Cancer Center
Center for Advanced Medicine
4921 Parkview Place, Floor LL
St. Louis, MO 63110
314) 747-7236
Mailing Address:
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8224
St. Louis, MO 63110
Areas of Clinical Interest:
Application of 3D conformal and intensity modulated radiation therapy
to pediatric oncology
Pediatric brain tumors
Gamma Knife
Prostate brachytherapy
3D radiotherapy in breast conservation therapy
Board Certification:
Radiation Oncology--Certified
Medical Education:
Medical Degree: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City,
Kansas, 1992
Residency: Radiation Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
1997
Fellowship: Research, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1997
Hospital Affiliations:
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Barnes-Jewish West County
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Awards and Honors:
ASTRO Research Fellowship, 1996-1997
Books and Book Chapters:
Mansur DB, Weichselbaum RR. DNA Damage and Repair in the Clinic. In:
Nickoloff JA and Hoekstra M, eds., DNA Damage and Repair, Volume 2: DNA
Repair in Higher Eukaryotes. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 1998
Selected Publications:
Kong FM, Klein EE, Bradley JD, Mansur DB, Taylor ME, Perez CA, Myerson
RJ, Harms WB. The impact of central lung distance, maximal heart distance,
and radiation technique on the volumetric dose of the lung and heart for
intact breast radiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2002 Nov 1;54(3):963-71
Mansur DB, Kataoka Y, Grdina DJ, Diamond AM. Radiosensitivity of mammalian
cell lines engineered to overexpress cytosolic glutathione peroxidase. Radiat
Res 2001; 155(4):536-542
Diamond AM, Hu YA, Mansur DB: Glutathione peroxidase and viral replication:
Implications for viral evolution and chemoprevention. Biofactors 2001: 14:205-210
Mansur DB, Hao H, Gladyshev VN, Korotkov KV, Hu Y, Moustafa ME, El-Saadani
MA, Carlson BA, Hatfield DL, Diamond AM. Multiple levels of regulation of
selenoprotein biosynthesis revealed from the analysis of human glioma cell
lines. Biochem Pharmacol 2000; 60(4):489-97
Mansur DB, Hekmatpanah J, Wollman R, Macdonald L, Nicholas K, Beckmann
E, Mundt AJ. Low grade gliomas treated with adjuvant radiation therapy in
the modern imaging era. Am J Clin Oncol 2000; 23(3):222-26
Mundt AJ, Connell PP, Mansur DB. What is the optimal treatment volume
in Hodgkin's disease patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy and adjuvant
radiation therapy. Radiat Oncol Invest 1999; 7(6):353-359
Connell PP, Macdonald RL, Mansur DB, Nicholas MK, Mundt AJ. Tumor size
predicts control of benign meningiomas treated with radiotherapy. Neurosurgery
1999; 44(6):1194-1199
Kataoka Y, Diamond AM, Weichselbaum RR, Grdina DJ, Mansur DB. Modification
of anti-oxidant enzymatic activity by low-dose selenium supplementation
does not affect radiosensitivity of human malignant glioma cells. Libri
Oncol 1998; 27:43-49
Moustafa ME, El-Saadani MA, Kandeel KM, Mansur DB, Lee BJ, Hatfield DL,
Diamond AM: Overproduction of selenocysteine tRNA in Chinese hamster ovary
cells following transfection of the mouse tRNA(ser)sec gene. RNA 1998; 4:1-8
