
Ajay Dhakal, M.B.B.S.
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About Me
Dr. Dhakal's special interest is breast cancer. His goal is to help breast cancer patients live longer with a good quality of life. Dr. Dhakal is passionate about conducting clinical research to better understand cancer biology and to discover new ways to treat breast cancer.
In his free time, Dr. Dhakal likes to travel and watch movies.
Faculty Appointments
Assistant Professor - Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology (SMD)
Credentials
Residency & Fellowship
Fellowship, Hematology & Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute. 2015 - 2018
Residency, Internal Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center. 2013 - 2015
Internship, Internal Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center. 2012 - 2013
Education
MBBS | Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital (Nepal). 2009
Awards
Best Poster, Annual Research Day. 2017
Nominated for Gerald L. Logue Memorial Travel Award. 2017 - 2018
Resident-Rock Award. 2014
Dean's List in Basic Science Final Examinations. 2005
Ministry of Education Scholarship. 2003 - 2009
Research
Clinical Trials
Lead Researcher: Ajay Dhakal
The purpose of this research is to look at the safety and effectiveness of a HER2-targeted therapy neratinib when given with capecitabine, a chemotherapy, for breast cancer patients with brain metastases whose tumors were HER2-negative by standard te...
Lead Researcher: Ajay Dhakal
This phase III trial studies how well trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) and tucatinib work in preventing breast cancer from coming back (relapsing) in patients with high risk, HER2 positive breast cancer. T-DM1 is a monoclonal antibody, called trastuzuma...
Lead Researcher: Ajay Dhakal
The purpose of this registry is to create a large-scale, population-based database. This database will match health information to genome data to identify new gene associations in breast cancer. The study will look at Agendia Breast Cancer tests, i...
Lead Researcher: Ajay Dhakal
The FLEX Registry will be implemented to operate as a large-scale, population based, prospective registry. All patients with stage I to III breast cancer who receive MammaPrint® and BluePrint testing on a primary breast tumor are eligible for entry i...
Publications
Journal Articles
Turner BM; Finkelman BS; Hicks DG; Numbereye N; Moisini I; Dhakal A; Skinner K; Sanders MAG; Wang X; Shayne M; Schiffhauer L; Katerji H; Zhang H.
Cancers. 2023; 3(15): 903.
Arya Mariam Roy; Vasanthan Muthusamy Kumarasamy; Ajay Dhakal;, Ruth O'Regan; Shipra Gandhi.
Cancer. 2023; .
Dhakal A, Anders CK
Cancer.. 2022 December 1128 (23):4055-4057. Epub 10/10/2022.
Dhakal A, Van Swearingen AED, O'Regan R, Anders CK
Current treatment options in oncology.. 2022 September 22 Epub 09/22/2022.
Gupta RK, Roy AM, Gupta A, Takabe K, Dhakal A, Opyrchal M, Kalinski P, Gandhi S
Cancers.. 2022 April 714 (8)Epub 04/07/2022.
Kharel Z, Nemer OP, Xi W, Upadhayaya B, Falkson CI, O'Regan RM, Dhakal A
Breast disease.. 2022 41 (1):255-260. Epub 1900 01 01.
Kharel Z, Nemer OP, Xi W, Upadhayaya B, Falkson CI, O'Regan RM, Dhakal A
Breast disease.. 2022 41 (1):363. Epub 1900 01 01.
Dhakal A, Acharya L, O'Regan R, Gandhi S, Falkson C
International journal of molecular sciences.. 2021 November 222 (21)Epub 11/02/2021.
Shrestha J, Shrestha A, Karki P, Dhakal A
Cure?us.. 2021 November 13 (11):e19666. Epub 11/17/2021.
Dhakal A, Falkson C, O'Regan RM
Cancer.. 2021 May 28 Epub 05/28/2021.
Zhang H, Moisini I, Turner BM, Wang X, Dhakal A, Yang Q, Kovar S, Schiffhauer LM, Hicks DG
American journal of clinical pathology.. 2021 January 25 Epub 01/25/2021.
Moftakhar B, Lekkala M, Strawderman M, Smith TC, Meacham P, Fitzgerald B, Falkson CI, Dhakal A
Breast cancer research and treatment.. 2020 July 15 Epub 07/15/2020.
Moftakhar B, Kharel P, Niraula S, Gandhi S, Falkson C, Dhakal A
Breast cancer : basic and clinical research.. 2020 14 :1178223420935871. Epub 06/23/2020.
Dhakal A, Antony Thomas R, Levine EG, Brufsky A, Takabe K, Hanna MG, Attwood K, Miller A, Khoury T, Early AP, Soniwala S, O'Connor T, Opyrchal M
Breast cancer : basic and clinical research.. 2020 14 :1178223420944864. Epub 07/23/2020.
Sarma M, Abdou Y, Dhakal A, Gandhi S
Breast cancer : basic and clinical research.. 2020 14 :1178223420976387. Epub 12/16/2020.
Dhakal A, Matthews CM, Levine EG, Salerno KE, Zhang F, Takabe K, Early AP, Edge SB, O'Connor T, Khoury T, Young JS, Opyrchal M
Clinical breast cancer.. 2018 December 18 (6):e1401-e1405. Epub 04/28/2018.
Kharel P, Uprety D, Chandra AB, Hu Y, Belur AA, Dhakal A
Case reports in medicine.. 2018 2018 :2913124. Epub 11/25/2018.
Dhakal A, Chen H, Dexter EU
Chest.. 2017 December 152 (6):e151-e154. Epub 1900 01 01.
Clinical development of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors in lung cancer.
Dhakal A, Yio J, Dy GK.
Journal of Targeted Therapies in Cancer. 2017; 1.
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Triple Negative Breast Cancer.
Budhathoki N; Dhakal A; Opyrchal M.
Theranostics of Can Res. 2017; .
A Multiple Myeloma Patient Presenting with Multiple Hepatic Masses
Dhakal A; Chandra A.
Journal of Medical Cases. 2013; 4(10): 673-675.
Rituximab Monotherapy for Primary Cutaneous Follicle Center Lymphoma
Dhakal A; Tretheway DM; Fulton R; Shah B.
Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine. 2012; 1(1): 16-18.
Sharma SK, Thapa PB, Maharjan DK, Dhakal A, Baral N
Kathmandu University medical journal (KUMJ).. 2009 7 (26):120-4. Epub 1900 01 01.
Dhakal A, Sharma R
Kathmandu University medical journal (KUMJ).. 2008 6 (2):291-3. Epub 1900 01 01.
Books
Angel's Concise Clinical Methods, (2006)
Authors: Dhakal A, Magar A, Shrestha S, Shrestha R, Palikhey S
Publisher: Makalu Publication House, Nepal 2006