Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Comparison of breast cancers detected in the Verona screening program following transition to digital breast tomosynthesis screening with cancers detected at digital mammography screening.
Published 2018The Verona population-based breast cancer (BC) screening program provides biennial mammography to women aged 50–69 years. Based on emerging evidence of enhanced detection, the program transitioned to digital breast ...Article -
Survival outcomes for Australian women receiving trastuzumab for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer following (neo)adjuvant trastuzumab: a national population-based observational study (2006–2014).
Published 2018Patients treated with (neo)adjuvant trastuzumab who relapse and receive trastuzumab for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) are a growing population with little outcome data given their exclusion from most clinical trials. We ...Open AccessArticle -
An exploratory radiomics analysis on digital breast tomosynthesis in women with mammographically negative dense breasts.
Published 2018To compare Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) for cancers and normal screens in women with dense breasts and negative mammography using a Radiomics approach. A substudy (N = 40) of the ‘Adjunct Screening With Tomosynthesis ...Article -
Interval breast cancers in the ‘screening with tomosynthesis or standard mammography’ (STORM) population-based trial.
Published 2018The prospective ‘screening with tomosynthesis or standard mammography’ (STORM) trial recruited women participating in biennial breast screening in Italy (2011–2012), and compared sequential screen-readings based on ...Article -
Preoperative MRI evaluation of lesion–nipple distance in breast cancer patients: thresholds for predicting occult nipple–areola complex involvement.
Published 2018To identify clinically occult nipple–areola complex (NAC) involvement using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to inform selection of patients eligible for nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) or skin-sparing ...Article