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Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most common human cancer in the Caucasian population and… Human papillomavirus infection and risk factors in head and neck cancer patients… High prevalence of human papillomaviruses in fresh frozen breast cancer samples… Development of models to study human papillomaviruses and their involvement in non-melanoma skin cancer… The PAH/QIMRB Head and Neck Cancer Study… cause cancer, and Annika’s research has been focused on human papillomavirus (HPV) and its role in… plasma samples. The HPV DNA prevalence in the tissue samples was 14% (7/51) for prostate cancer…
Associate Professor Annika Antonsson is a virologist with epidemiological training. Viruses can cause cancer, and Annika’s research has been focused on human papillomavirus (HPV) and its role in different types of cancer. HPV is the virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to infectious agents… Obesity-induced Barrett's oesophagus and associated cancer: mechanisms and diagnostic tools… Obesity and cancer… Professor Bradley Kendall is a clinical academic Gastroenterologist and Cancer Epidemiologist… average risk for developing EAC; these individuals might benefit from targeted cancer-prevention strategies. …
Professor Bradley Kendall is a clinical academic Gastroenterologist and Cancer Epidemiologist. He is currently a Senior Staff Gastroenterologist (Eminent) at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane with over 30 years of experience in clinical practice. His clinical training included Fellowships in …
Professor Kendall’s work on the role of obesity in gastrointestinal cancer has been acknowledged nationally and internationally. His work has a strong translational focus contributing to the development of clinical risk prediction tools, national clinical guidelines, and position statements. As an …
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Effect of radiotherapy dose and volume on relapse in Merkel cell cancer of the skin… radiation oncologist and a leading authority in head and neck and skin cancer. With over 20 years… cancer or its treatment. This chapter describes the RT effects associated with commonly treated…
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Dr Sandro Porceddu is an internationally recognised radiation oncologist and a leading authority in head and neck and skin cancer. With over 20 years experience in medicine his areas of clinical expertise include head and neck cancer, skin cancer, sarcoma and lymphoma. He is current …
Dr Porceddu’s has been investigating methods to reduce the morbidity of treatment, improve cure rates and quality of life for cancer patients. He runs an active head and neck/skin cancer research program and is the principal investigator of numerous trials including an NHMRC-supported Randomised P …
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Prognostic significance of extensive microsatellite instability in sporadic clinicopathological stage C colorectal cancer… colorectal carcinogenesis particularly in cancers which display microsatellite instability, a marker of…
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The understanding of colorectal cancer biology has made a major leap forward in recent years with… The prevalence of sessile serrated adenomas in national bowel cancer screening program (NBCSP) participants… Colorectal cancer… focuses on improving the effectiveness of colonoscopy for the bowel cancer screening, and he has… cancer (CRC) than proximal CRC. Serrated polyps are frequently located in the proximal colon, can be…
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
Gastroenterologist & therapeutic colonoscopist, Colonoscopy Clinic
David Hewett is a gastroenterologist, therapeutic colonoscopist and health services researcher. He is in private specialist practice at Colonoscopy Clinic, and …
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Basic consideration of research strategies for head and neck cancer… Micro RNA's in head and neck cancer… Director of the Queensland Head and Neck Cancer Centre. He has been active in head and neck cancer… Perineural invasion of head and neck skin cancer is a poorly understood and often misdiagnosed…
Prof Ben Panizza is the Chairman of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery for Metro South and Director of the Queensland Head and Neck Cancer Centre. He has been active in head and neck cancer management for 25 years. He has created innovative approaches in dealing with malignancies extending to th …
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End-stage kidney disease following surgical management of kidney cancer… Primary Kidney Cancer Cell Culture Projects… This project involves cell culture of primary cancer cells, to develop in vivo models of disease… Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) after surgery for kidney cancer is common, and is…
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from the neural crest. Ten % of these tumors are associated with the familial cancer syndromes multiple…
MS has >30 years of clinical research experience in pathogenesis and management of hypertension (HT) and especially of endocrine varieties including primary aldosteronism (PA). Working within the Greenslopes Hospital Hypertension Unit (GHHU), he played a significant role in the demonstration that PA …
Hypertension (high blood pressure) affects around 30% of Australian adults, and is a leading risk factor for stroke. Treatment usually means lifelong medications, potentially costly and poorly tolerated. However, when the cause can be identified, and reversed or specifically treated, the outcomes ar …
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Retrospective review of patients managed with chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer at the Princess Alexandra Hospital… Cancer Evolution Biobank… outcome for all patients with advanced melanoma as well as advanced gastro-intestinal cancers… cancer at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH)since the introduction of electronic prescribing…
Associate Professor Victoria Atkinson is both a Senior Medical Oncologist and a Principal Investigator for clinical trials in the adjuvant and metastatic setting at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Greenslopes Private Hospital (in collaboration with Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation). Additio …
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Cancer of the oesophagus is increasing in incidence and carries a poor prognosis. Chemotherapy and… Thoracoscopic-assisted esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: Analysis of patterns and prognostic factors for recurrence… New blood tests for Barrett's oesophagus and oesophageal cancer… then as a Surgical Oncology Fellow at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York… Esophagectomy is the mainstay of curative treatment for localized esophageal cancer. However, what…
Professor Andrew Barbour is an academic general surgeon who specialises in upper gastrointestinal, pancreatic, melanoma and sarcoma surgery.
On completion of his training, Dr Barbour worked at the Bristol Royal Infirmary as an Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Surgery Fellow and then as a Su …