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Graham Byrnes is affiliated with the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France. Their research spans several areas within medicine and biological sciences, with a focus on radiology, nuclear medicine, and cancer research. Byrnes has contributed notably to the study of radiation dose and imaging, occupational and environmental lung diseases, cancer genomics and diagnostics, and the effects of radiation exposure.

Their work is published in a range of scientific journals and venues, with multiple contributions appearing in Nature Medicine, Radiation Research, The Lancet Oncology, and Cancers. Byrnes's frequent publication venues include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Medicine
  • Radiation Research
  • The Lancet Oncology
  • Cancers

Byrnes has collaborated extensively, with frequent co-authors including Monika Moissonnier, Joachim Schüz, Gilles Ferro, James McKay, and Evgeny Kovalevskiy.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on radiation exposure risks related to medical imaging and cancer detection. Notable publications are:

  • Risk of hematological malignancies from CT radiation exposure in children, adolescents and young adults, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Brain cancer after radiation exposure from CT examinations of children and young adults: results from the EPI-CT cohort study, 2022, The Lancet Oncology
  • Development of Sensitive Droplet Digital PCR Assays for Detecting Urinary TERT Promoter Mutations as Non-Invasive Biomarkers for Detection of Urothelial Cancer, 2020, Cancers
  • Circulating tumour-derived KRAS mutations in pancreatic cancer cases are predominantly carried by very short fragments of cell-free DNA, 2020, EBioMedicine
  • Dose Estimation for the European Epidemiological Study on Pediatric Computed Tomography (EPI-CT), 2021, Radiation Research

The scientific areas they study include specialized subfields such as pulmonary and respiratory medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and radioactivity and radon measurements.

Byrnes's research addresses topics such as:

  • Radiation Dose and Imaging
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Effects of Radiation Exposure
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Occupational exposure and asthma

Overall, Byrnes's contributions reflect a consistent concentration on understanding the health impacts of radiation and environmental exposures, particularly through the lens of imaging technologies and molecular diagnostics.

Best Publications

  • Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 million Australians

    John D Mathews;Anna V Forsythe;Zoe Brady;Martin W Butler

  • Effects of alteplase beyond 3 h after stroke in the Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET): a placebo-controlled randomised trial.

    Stephen M Davis;Geoffrey A Donnan;Mark W Parsons;Christopher Levi

  • Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study

    Melina Arnold;Nirmala Pandeya;Graham Byrnes;Andrew G Renehan

  • Acute hyperglycemia adversely affects stroke outcome: a magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy study

    Mark W. Parsons;P. Alan Barber;Patricia M. Desmond;Tracey A. Baird;Tracey A. Baird

  • TP53 Variations in Human Cancers: New Lessons from the IARC TP53 Database and Genomics Data.

    Liacine Bouaoun;Dmitriy Sonkin;Maude Ardin;Monica Hollstein;Monica Hollstein

  • Recent trends in incidence of five common cancers in 26 European countries since 1988: Analysis of the European Cancer Observatory.

    Melina Arnold;Henrike E. Karim-Kos;Jan Willem Coebergh;Graham Byrnes

  • Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Rayjean J Hung;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Meta-analysis of observational studies of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and colorectal, breast and prostate cancer and colorectal adenoma

    Sara Gandini;Mathieu Boniol;Jari Haukka;Graham Byrnes

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology – nutritional epidemiology (STROBE-nut): An extension of the STROBE statement†

    Carl Lachat;Carl Lachat;Dana Hawwash;Marga C. Ocké;Christina Berg

  • Association between pre-diagnostic circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of colorectal cancer in European populations:a nested case-control study

    Mazda Jenab;H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita;Pietro Ferrari;Franzel J.B. van Duijnhoven

  • Screening for lung cancer.

    Renée Manser;Anne Lethaby;Louis B Irving;Christine Stone

  • Extending thrombolysis to 4·5–9 h and wake-up stroke using perfusion imaging: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

    Bruce C V Campbell;Bruce C V Campbell;Henry Ma;Henry Ma;Peter A Ringleb;Mark W Parsons

  • Evaluation of Human Papillomavirus Antibodies and Risk of Subsequent Head and Neck Cancer

    Aimee R. Kreimer;Mattias Johansson;Tim Waterboer;Rudolf Kaaks

  • Childhood allergic rhinitis predicts asthma incidence and persistence to middle age: A longitudinal study

    John A. Burgess;E. Haydn Walters;Graham B. Byrnes;Melanie C. Matheson

  • Integrative genomic profiling of large-cell neuroendocrine carcinomas reveals distinct subtypes of high-grade neuroendocrine lung tumors

    Julie George;Vonn Walter;Vonn Walter;Martin Peifer;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

    James D. McKay;Therese Truong;Valerie Gaborieau;Amelie Chabrier

  • Classification of rare missense substitutions, using risk surfaces, with genetic- and molecular-epidemiology applications.

    Sean V. Tavtigian;Graham B. Byrnes;David E. Goldgar;Alun Thomas

  • Plasma phospholipid fatty acid profiles and their association with food intakes: results from a cross-sectional study within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Mitra Saadatian-Elahi;Nadia Slimani;Véronique Chajès;Mazda Jenab

  • Insulin resistance is a risk factor for progression to Type 1 diabetes

    S. Fourlanos;P. Narendran;P. Narendran;G. B. Byrnes;P. G. Colman

  • In silico analysis of missense substitutions using sequence-alignment based methods.

    Sean V Tavtigian;Marc S Greenblatt;Fabienne Lesueur;Graham B Byrnes

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
James McKay
James McKay International Agency For Research On Cancer
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Pagona Lagiou
Pagona Lagiou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon Institut Gustave Roussy
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse

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