Kajsa Affolter, MD

Subspecialty Director: Pancreaticobiliary Pathology
Subspecialties: Gastrointestinal, pancreatic, and hepatic pathology
Associate Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties

• Gastrointestinal 
• Pancreatic
• Hepatic pathology

Education

• Medical Degree—Kansas University School of Medicine
• Residency—Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine
• Fellowship—Gastrointestinal Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Pathology

Research Interests

• Pancreatic neoplasia
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Gastrointestinal polyposis syndromes

Recent Publications

• Boylan KE, Kanth P, Delker D, et al. Three pathologic criteria for reproducible diagnosis of colonic sessile serrated lesion versus hyperplastic polyp. Hum Pathol. 2023;137:25-35.
• Florou V, Elliott A, Bailey MH, et al. Comparative genomic analysis of pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma (PACC) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) unveils new actionable genomic aberrations in PACC. Clin Cancer Res. 2023;29(17):3408-3417.
• Wilcock DM, Moore KH, Rowe L, et al. Quantitative imaging analysis fluorescence in situ hybridization validation for clinical HER2 testing in breast cancer. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2023;147(12):1402-1412.
• Silvis MR, Silva D, Rohweder R, et al. MYC-mediated resistance to trametinib and HCQ in PDAC is overcome by CDK4/6 and lysosomal inhibition. J Exp Med. 2023;220(3):e20221524.
• Firpo MA, Boucher KM, Bleicher J, et al. Multianalyte serum biomarker panel for early detection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2023;7:e2200160.
• Dong Z, Barraza G, Affolter KE, et al. Distinguishing gastrointestinal leiomyomas from muscularis propria in biopsy specimens by differential expression of S100 immunohistochemical stain. Am J Clin Pathol. 2023;159(1):53-59.
• Hernandez S, Parra ER, Uraoka N, et al. Diminished immune surveillance during histologic progression of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms offers a therapeutic opportunity for cancer interception. Clin Cancer Res. 2022;28(9):1938-1947.
• Affolter KE, Hellwig S, Nix DA, et al. Detection of circulating tumor DNA without a tumor-informed search using next-generation sequencing is a prognostic biomarker in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Neoplasia. 2021;23(9):859-869.
• Byun S, Affolter KE, Snow AK, et al. Differential methylation of G-protein coupled receptor signaling genes in gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors. Sci Rep. 2021;11(1):12303
• Kmeid M, Zuo C, Lagana SM, et al. Interobserver study on histologic features of idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension. Diagn Pathol. 2020;15(1):129.
• Gruhl JD, Garrido-Laguna I, Francis SR, et al. The impact of squamous cell carcinoma histology on outcomes in nonmetastatic pancreatic cancer. Cancer Med. 2020;9(5):1703-1711.