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Department of Urology
University of Washington | School of Medicine
Department of Urology

DANIEL W. LIN, MD

Associate Professor
Chief of Urologic Oncology
Department of Urology
School of Medicine
University of Washington

Board Certification

2/03 American Board of Urology

Specialty / Expertise

Dr. Lin is a fellowship-trained urologic oncologist with expertise in all types of genitourinary tumors and particular interest in prostate, testicular, and renal cell carcinoma.

Common Surgeries Performed

  • Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection
  • Nephrectomy
  • Prostatectomy

Common Diseases Treated

Education & Training

Dr. Lin received his MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee in 1994. He then moved to the University of Washington for an internship and residency in the Department of Surgery. In 1996, he started his residency in the Department of Urology and was Chief Resident 1999-2000.

He completed a Fellowship in Urologic Oncology in the Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City before completing a research fellowship at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

Active Research Funding

Daniel Lin Lab>>

Selected Honors

  • 6/94 - Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), Vanderbilt University Medical School
  • 06/98 - Warren H. Chapman Resident Research Award, University of Washington
  • 10/98 - James L. Goebel Grand Prize Poster, Western Section American Urological Association
  • 06/00 - Pfizer Scholar in Urology, University of Washington
  • 05/04 - Yamanouchi First Prize Poster, American Urological Association
  • 01/06 - Service Excellence Award, University of Washington
  • 10/06 - Joseph F. McCarthy/ACMI Second Prize Essay, Western Section American Urological Association
  • 05/07 - Society of Basic Urologic Research Young Investigator Award
  • 01/08 - American Urologic Association/European Association of Urology Academic ScholaR
  • 06/08 - Julian S. Ansell Faculty Teaching Award, University of Washington
  • 04/09 - Society of Urologic Oncology Young Investigator Award, Society of Urologic Oncology

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1. Lin DW, Coleman IM, Hawley S, Dumpit R, Gifford D, Kezele P, Hung H, Knudsen BS, Kristal AR, and Nelson PS: The Influence of Surgical Manipulation on Prostate Gene Expression: Implications for Molecular Correlates of Treatment Effects and Disease Prognosis. Journal of Clinical Oncology 24: 3763-70, 2006.
  2. Agalliu I, Lin DW, Salinas CA, Iwasaki LM, Feng Z, and Stanford JL: Polymorphisms in the Glutathione S-Transferase M1, T1, and P1 Genes and Prostate Cancer Prognosis. Prostate 66: 1535-41, 2006.
  3. True L, Coleman I, Hawley S, Huang A, Gifford D, Coleman R, Beer T, Gelman E, Datta M, Mostaghel E, Knudsen B, Lange P, Vessella, Lin DW, Hood L, and Nelson PS: A Molecular Correlate to the Gleason Grading System for Prostate Adenocarcinoma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 10991-6, 2006.
  4. Porter MP and Lin DW: Trends in Renal Cancer Surgery in the United States and Patient and Provider Characteristics Associated with Partial Nephrectomy, Urologic Oncology, 25: 298-302, 2007.
  5. Page ST, Lin DW, Mostaghel EA, Hess DL, True LD, Amory JK, Nelson PS, Matsumoto AM, and Bremner WJ: Persistent Intraprostatic Androgen  Concentrations after Medical Castration in Healthy Men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91: 3850-6, 2006.
  6. Stephenson AJ, Scardino PT, Kattan MW, Pisansky TM, Slawin KM, Klein EA, Anscher MS, Michalski JM, Sandler HM, Lin DW, Zelefsky MJ, Forman JD, Kestin LL, Roehrborn CG, Catton CN, DeWeese TL, Liauw SL, Valicenti RK, Kuban DA, and Pollack A: Predicting the Outcome of Salvage Radiation Therapy for Recurrent Prostate Cancer after Radical Prostatectomy. Journal of Clinical Oncology 25: 2035-41, 2007.
  7. Mostaghel EA, Page ST, Lin DW, Fazli L, Coleman IM, True LD, Knudsen BS, Hess DL, Nelson CC, Matsumoto AM, Bremner WJ, Gleave ME, and Nelson PS: Intraprostatic Androgens and Androgen-Regulated Gene Expression Persist Following Testosterone Suppression: Therapeutic Implications for Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Cancer Research 67: 5033-41, 2007.
  8. Black PC, Wright JL, Brown GA, Gomez JA, Porter MP, Kamat AM, Dinney CPN, and Lin DW: Differences in Survival Between Patients with Sarcomatoid Carcinoma, Carcinosarcoma, and Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder. Journal of Urology 178: 2302-6, 2007.
  9. Lin DW, Neuhouser ML, Schenk JM, Coleman IM, Hawley S, Gifford D, Hung H, Knudsen BS, Nelson PS, and Kristal AR: Low-Fat, Low-Glycemic Load Diet and Gene Expression in Human Prostate Epithelium: a Feasibility Study of Using cDNA Microarrays to Assess the Response to Dietary Intervention in Target Tissues. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 16: 2150-4, 2007. 
  10. Sim HG, Telesca D, Culp SH, Ellis WJ, Lange PH, True LD, and Lin DW: Tertiary Gleason Pattern 5 in Gleason 7 Prostate Cancer Predicts Pathologic Parameters and Biochemical Recurrence. Journal of Urology 179: 1775-9, 2008.
  11. Wright JL, Lin DW, and Porter MP: The Association Between Extent of Lymphadenectomy and Survival Among Patients with Lymph Node Metastases Undergoing Radical Cystectomy. Cancer 112: 2401-8, 2008.
  12. Montgomery RB, Lavori P, Garzotto M, Lee K, Brophy M, Thaneemit-Chen S, Kelly W, Basler J, Ringer R, Yu W, Whittemore A, and Lin DW: VA Cooperative Studies Program study #553: Chemotherapy after Prostatectomy (CAP), a Phase III Randomized Study of Prostatectomy vs. Prostatectomy with Adjuvant Docetaxel for Patients with High Risk, Localized Prostate Cancer. Urology 72: 474-80, 2008. 
  13. Wright JL, Morgan TM, and Lin DW: Scrotal cancer in the United States over the past 30 years:  data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry. Urology 72: 1139-43, 2008.
  14. Mitchell PS, Parkin RK, Kroh EM, Fritz BR, Wyman SK, Pogosova-Agadjanyan EL, Peterson E, Noteboom J, O'Briant KC, Allen A, Lin DW, Urban N, Drescher CW, Knudsen BS, Stirewalt DL, Gentleman R, Vessella RL, Nelson PS, Martin DB, and Tewari M: Circulating microRNAs as stable blood-based markers for cancer detection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105:10513-8, 2008.
  15. Salinas CA, Kooopmeiners, JS, Kwon E, Fitzgerald L, Lin DW, Ostrander EA, Feng Z, and Stanford JL: Clinical Utility of Five Genetic Variants for Predicting Prostate Cancer Risk and Mortality. Prostate 69:363-72, 2009.
  16. Wu JD, Lin DW, Page ST, Lundgren AD, True LD, and Plymate SR: Evidence of DNA Damage Response in the Prostate of Men Referred for Prostate Biopsy. Translational Oncology 2:39-45, 2009.
  17. Morgan TM, Lange PH, Porter MP, Lin DW, Ellis WJ, Gallaher I, and Vessella RL: Disseminated Tumor Cells in Prostate Cancer Patients after Radical Prostatectomy and without Evidence of Disease Predicts Biochemical Recurrence. Clinical Cancer Research, 15:677-83, 2009.
  18. Lin DW, Porter MP, and Montgomery RB: Treatment and survival outcomes in young men diagnosed with prostate cancer: a SEER database analysis. Cancer 115:2863-71, 2009.
  19. Wright JL, Risk MC, Hotaling J, and Lin DW: Effect of Collecting Duct Histology on Outcomes in Renal Cell Carcinoma. Journal of Urology 182:2595-9, 2009.
  20. Pomerantz MM, Beckwith CA, Regan MM, Wyman SK, Petrovics G, Chen Y, Hawksworth DJ, Schumacher FR, Mucci L, Penney KL, Stampfer MJ, Chan JA, Ardlie KG, Fritz BR, Parkin RK, Lin DW, Dyke M, Herman P, Lee S, Oh WK, Kantoff PW, Tewari M, McLeod DG, Srivastava S, and Freedman ML: Evaluation of the 8q24 Prostate Cancer Risk Locus and MYC Expression. Cancer Research 69:5568-74, 2009.
  21. Newcomb LF, Brooks JD, Carroll PR, Feng Z, Gleave ME, Nelson PS, Thompson IM, and Lin DW:  Canary Prostate Active Surveillance Study: Design of a Multi-institutional Active Surveillance Cohort and Biorepository. Urology, in press, 2010.

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University of Washington Medical Center
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