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  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Colin B. Begg is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with substantial contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Begg's work extensively covers oncology, molecular biology, cancer research, statistics and probability, and immunology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Melanoma and MAPK Pathways
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

Begg has contributed to various publication venues with a strong presence in UNC Libraries, where 22 publications appear. Other frequent venues include Clinical Trials, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, and Biometrics.

Their recent papers include:

  • Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19, 2022, Nature
  • GWAS and meta-analysis identifies 49 genetic variants underlying critical COVID-19, 2023, Nature
  • Comparison of Clinicopathologic Features and Survival of Histopathologically Amelanotic and Pigmented Melanomas: A Population-Based Study, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Mining mutation contexts across the cancer genome to map tumor site of origin, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Adult Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries With Cancer, 2022, JAMA Oncology

Begg frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Marianne Berwick
  • Nancy E. Thomas
  • Irene Orlow
  • Klaus J. Busam
  • Peter A. Kanetsky

In recognition of their professional contributions, Begg was awarded Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement

    C Begg;M Cho;S Eastwood;R Horton

  • Prognostic effect of weight loss prior tochemotherapy in cancer patients

    William D. Dewys;Colin Begg;Philip T. Lavin;Pierre R. Band

  • impact of Hospital Volume on Operative Mortality for Major Cancer Surgery

    Colin B. Begg;Laura D. Cramer;William J. Hoskins;Murray F. Brennan

  • Racial differences in the treatment of early-stage lung cancer.

    Peter B. Bach;Laura D. Cramer;Joan L. Warren;Colin B. Begg

  • Publication bias : a problem in interpreting medical data

    Colin B. Begg;Jesse A. Berlin

  • Probabilistic sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo simulation. A practical approach.

    Peter Doubilet;Colin B. Begg;Milton C. Weinstein;Peter Braun

  • Variations in Morbidity after Radical Prostatectomy

    Colin B. Begg;Elyn R. Riedel;Peter B. Bach;Michael W. Kattan

  • Phase III Multicenter Randomized Trial of the Dartmouth Regimen Versus Dacarbazine in Patients With Metastatic Melanoma

    Paul B. Chapman;Lawrence H. Einhorn;Michael L. Meyers;Scott Saxman

  • Assessment of diagnostic tests when disease verification is subject to selection bias.

    Colin B. Begg;Robert A. Greenes

  • The Influence of Hospital Volume on Survival after Resection for Lung Cancer

    Peter B. Bach;Laura D. Cramer;Deborah Schrag;Robert J. Downey

  • Computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes.

    Peter B. Bach;James R. Jett;Ugo Pastorino;Melvyn S. Tockman

  • Variations in Lung Cancer Risk Among Smokers

    Peter B. Bach;Michael W. Kattan;Mark D. Thornquist;Mark G. Kris

  • Biases in the assessment of diagnostic tests

    Colin B. Begg

  • The effect of local control on metastatic dissemination in carcinoma of the prostate: Long-term results in patients treated with 1251 implantation

    Zvi Fuks;Steven A. Leibel;Kent E. Wallner;Colin B. Begg

  • Survival of blacks and whites after a cancer diagnosis.

    Peter B. Bach;Deborah Schrag;Otis W. Brawley;Aaron Galaznik

  • Influence of hospital procedure volume on outcomes following surgery for colon cancer.

    Deborah Schrag;Laura D. Cramer;Peter B. Bach;Alfred M. Cohen

  • Age and adjuvant chemotherapy use after surgery for stage III colon cancer.

    Deborah Schrag;Laura D. Cramer;Peter B. Bach;Colin B. Begg

  • Publication Bias and Dissemination of Clinical Research

    Colin B Begg;Jesse A Berlin

  • Screening for Cutaneous Melanoma by Skin Self-Examination

    Marianne Berwick;Colin B. Begg;Judith A. Fine;George C. Roush

  • Phase I II M ulticenter R andomized T rial o f t he D artmouth Regimen V ersus D acarbazine i n P atients With M etastatic M elanoma

    Paul B. Chapman;Lawrence H. Einhorn;Michael L. Meyers;Scott Saxman

Frequent Co-Authors

Marianne Berwick
Marianne Berwick University of New Mexico
Irene Orlow
Irene Orlow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hoda Anton-Culver
Hoda Anton-Culver University of California, Irvine
Richard P. Gallagher
Richard P. Gallagher University of British Columbia
Stephen B. Gruber
Stephen B. Gruber City Of Hope National Medical Center
Bruce K. Armstrong
Bruce K. Armstrong University of Sydney
Terence Dwyer
Terence Dwyer University of Oxford
Peter B. Bach
Peter B. Bach Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Deborah Schrag
Deborah Schrag Harvard University
Klaus J. Busam
Klaus J. Busam Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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