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Nina Tamirisa is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on breast cancer surgical oncology, specifically de-escalation of surgical and radiation therapies for low-risk disease. Her recent work includes a phase II trial evaluating definitive stereotactic ablative radiotherapy with endocrine therapy for select low-risk breast cancers, validation of a prognostic staging system incorporating age at diagnosis, and implications of omitting sentinel lymph node biopsy in early-stage node-negative HR+/HER2− breast cancer. She also investigates pathologic nodal disease prediction and treatment sequencing for older women with comorbidities. Her publications appear in Radiotherapy and Oncology, Cancer, and npj Breast Cancer.
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