Alan Cantor, PhD
Professor
Division of Preventive Medicine
Director
BBSF
Contact Information:
Medical Towers 602
1717 11th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama 35205
Phone: (205) 934-6887
Fax: (205)934-7959
acantor@mail.dopm.uab.edu
Research Interests
Survival Analysis
Cure Models
Power and Sample Size Calculations
Educational Background
EDUCATION:
Palm Beach Junior College AA - 1960 Arts
University of Florida BS - 1962 Mathematics Education
Appalachian State University MA - 1964 Mathematics
University of South Carolina PhD - 1972 Mathematics
FELLOWSHIPS:
Summer Institute in Mathematics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1966
Summer Institute in Mathematics, Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1967
Summer Research Fellow, Savannah River Laboratory, AEC, Computer Applications Division, Aiken, South Carolina, 1973
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, 1976-1978
Summer Institute in Biostatistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977
Professional Activities
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Statistical Association (Former President of State Chapter)
Society for Clinical Trials
Biometric Society
COMMITTEES:
Research and Development Committee, Charleston VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, 1978-1983
Graduate School Curriculum Committee, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 1978-1983
Research and Development Committee, Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL, 1984-87
Clinical Research Council, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 1997-1999.
Scientific Review Committee, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 1994-2006; (vice-chair 1996-2006)
Protocol Monitoring Committee, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 1996-2002. (co-chair)
Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 2003 - 2006
Scientific Leadership Council, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 1996-2002.
DIO Department APT Committee, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 2000-2006.
CONSULTANTSHIPS:
R&D Committee, Charleston VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, 1978-1983
Sanofi-Aventis Advanced Research Institute Tampa General Hospital
JOURNAL REFEREED:
EEE Transactions on Reliability, 1988-Present.
Biometrics, 1991-Present.
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1994-Present.
Medical and Pediatric Oncology, 1995-Present.
Psychological Methods, 1996-Present.
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 1996-Present.
Statistics in Medicine, 1996-Present.
Cancer Control Journal, 1997-Present.
EDITORIAL SERVICES:
Statistical Editor, Cancer Control Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center, 2003 - 2006
Selected Recent Publications
Cantor AB: Power Calculation for the Log Rank Test Using Historical Data. Controlled Clinical Trials 17:111-116, 1996.
Cantor AB: Sample Size Calculation for Cohen’s Kappa. Psychological Methods 1:150-153, 1996.
Gwede CK, Pow-Sang J, Seigne J, Heysek R, Helal M, Shade K, Cantor A, Jacobsen PB.Treatment decision-making strategies and influences in patients with localized prostate carcinoma. Cancer1; 104(7):1381-90, 2005. PMID 16080181
Albertini JJ, Lyman GH, Cox C, Yeatman T, Balducci L, Ku NN, Shivers S, Berman C, Wells K, Rapaport D, Shons A, Horton J, Greenberg H, Nicosia S, Clark R, Cantor A, Reintgen DS: Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Node Biopsy in the Patient With Breast Cancer. Journal of the American Medical Association 276:1818-1822, 1996.
Bowman LC, Castleberry RP, Cantor AB, Joshi VV, Cohn S, Smith E, Yu AL, Brodeur GM, Hayes F, Look A: Genetic Staging of Unresectable or Metastatic Neuroblastoma in Infants: a Pediatric Oncology Group Study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 89:373-377, 1997.
Shuster JJ, Cantor AB, McWilliams N, Graham-Pole J, Castleberry RP, Marcus R, Pick T, Smith EI, Hayes FA: The Prognostic Significance of Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant in Advanced Neuroblastoma. Classic Papers and Current Comments, 5:21-25, 2000. Originally published Journal of Clinical Oncology 9:1045-1049, 1991.
Cantor AB: Projecting the Standard Error of the Kaplan-Meier Estimator. Statistics in Medicine 20:2091-2097, 2001.
Soares HP, Kumar A, Daniels S, Swann S, Cantor A, Hozo I, Clark M, Serdarevic F, Gwede C, Trottie A, Djulbegovic B: Evaluation of new treatments in radiation oncology: are they better than standard treatments? Journal of the American Medical Association 23:293(8): 1001-3, 2005. PMID 15728168
Ferraro B, Bepler G, Syharma S, Cantor A, Haura E: EGR1 Predicts PTEN and Survival in Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 23 (9): 1921 - 1926, 2005. PMID 15774784
Eschrich S, Yang I, Bloom G, Kwong K, Boulware D, Cantor A, Coppola D, Kruhoffer M, Aaltonen L, Orntoft T, Quackenbush J, Yeatman T: Molecular Staging for Survival Prediction of Colorectal Cancer Patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology 20; 23 (15): 3526-35, 2005. PMID 15908663
Awards
Recipient of A.E.C. Summer Research Participation Grant, 1973
Listed in Outstanding American Educators, 1974-1975
Recipient of NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1976
Listed in Outstanding Young Men of America, 1978
Outstanding Performance Award, Hines VA Hospital, 1984-1987
Listed in Who's Who in the Midwest, 1985
