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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Anthony J. Swerdlow is affiliated with the Institute of Cancer Research in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several overlapping domains within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a substantial focus on oncology and related subfields.

The main fields of study for Anthony J. Swerdlow include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Specific subfields feature prominently in their work, particularly:

  • Oncology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The research topics addressed cover areas such as:

  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Male Breast Health Studies

Among notable recent publications by or involving Anthony J. Swerdlow are:

  • Breast cancer risk after recent childbirth: A pooled analysis of 15 prospective studies (2024), published in PubMed
  • Comparative validation of the BOADICEA and Tyrer-Cuzick breast cancer risk models incorporating classical risk factors and polygenic risk in a population-based prospective cohort of women of European ancestry (2021), published in Breast Cancer Research
  • Long-term mortality after childhood growth hormone treatment: the SAGhE cohort study (2020), published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Functional antibody and T cell immunity following SARS-CoV-2 infection, including by variants of concern, in patients with cancer: the CAPTURE study (2021), published in Nature Cancer
  • Comparative performance of lung cancer risk models to define lung screening eligibility in the United Kingdom (2021), published in British Journal of Cancer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anthony J. Swerdlow include:

  • Minouk J. Schoemaker
  • Michael E. Jones
  • Graham G. Giles
  • A. Heather Eliassen
  • Roger L. Milne

Throughout their career, Anthony J. Swerdlow has published multiple papers in key venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Breast Cancer Research
  • International Journal of Epidemiology

Recognition for their contributions includes being named a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • Mortality from heart disease in a cohort of 23,000 patients with insulin-treated diabetes

    S.P. Laing;A.J. Swerdlow;S.D. Slater;A.C. Burden

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for glioma

    Sanjay Shete;Fay J. Hosking;Lindsay B. Robertson;Sara E. Dobbins

  • Trends in cancer incidence and mortality in Scotland : description and possible explanations

    AJ Swerdlow;I dos Santos Silva;A Reid;Z Qiao

  • Allogeneic cytotoxic T-cell therapy for EBV-positive posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disease: results of a phase 2 multicenter clinical trial

    Tanzina Haque;Gwen M. Wilkie;Marie M. Jones;Craig D. Higgins

  • Risk of Second Malignancy After Hodgkin’s Disease in a Collaborative British Cohort: The Relation to Age at Treatment

    A J Swerdlow;J A Barber;G V Hudson;D Cunningham

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

  • MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

    Sofia Khan;Dario Greco;Dario Greco;Kyriaki Michailidou;Roger L. Milne;Roger L. Milne

  • The British Diabetic Association Cohort Study, I: all-cause mortality in patients with insulin-treated diabetes mellitus.

    S. P. Laing;A. J. Swerdlow;S. D. Slater;J. L. Botha

  • Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Guidelines on limits of exposure to ultraviolet radiation of wavelengths between 180 nm and 400 nm (incoherent optical radiation)

    A F McKinlay;J H Bernhardt;A Ahlbom;J P Cesarini

  • Myocardial Infarction Mortality Risk After Treatment for Hodgkin Disease: A Collaborative British Cohort Study

    Anthony J. Swerdlow;Craig D. Higgins;Paul Smith;David Cunningham

  • Ovarian Cancer Risk Factors by Histologic Subtype: An Analysis From the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium

    Nicolas Wentzensen;Elizabeth M. Poole;Britton Trabert;Emily White

  • Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

    Felix R. Day;Katherine S. Ruth;Deborah J Thompson;Kathryn L. Lunetta

  • Treatment of Epstein-Barr-virus-positive post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disease with partly HLA-matched allogeneic cytotoxic T cells.

    Tanzina Haque;Gwen M Wilkie;Clare Taylor;Peter L Amlot

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Michael E. Jones
Michael E. Jones Macquarie University
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Montserrat Garcia-Closas
Montserrat Garcia-Closas National Institutes of Health
Stig E. Bojesen
Stig E. Bojesen University of Copenhagen

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