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Overview

Mark Lawler is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with a substantial body of work related to Oncology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Oncology, Economics and Econometrics, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Cancer Research.

Lawler's work frequently addresses topics such as Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, and Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Effect of delays in the 2-week-wait cancer referral pathway during the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survival in the UK: a modelling study (2020, The Lancet Oncology)
  • Estimated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer services and excess 1-year mortality in people with cancer and multimorbidity: near real-time data on cancer care, cancer deaths and a population-based cohort study (2020, BMJ Open)
  • A harmonized meta-knowledgebase of clinical interpretations of somatic genomic variants in cancer (2020, Nature Genetics)
  • Estimating excess mortality in people with cancer and multimorbidity in the COVID-19 emergency (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • The economic burden of colorectal cancer across Europe: a population-based cost-of-illness study (2021, The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology)

Lawler collaborates frequently with a number of other researchers, including:

  • Richard Sullivan
  • Philip D. Dunne
  • Tim Maughan
  • Simon J. Leedham
  • Raheleh Amirkhah

Their publications appear predominantly in venues such as The Lancet Oncology, Journal of Cancer Policy, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Journal of Cancer, and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Best Publications

  • Effect of delays in the 2-week-wait cancer referral pathway during the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survival in the UK: a modelling study.

    Amit Sud;Bethany Torr;Michael E Jones;John Broggio

  • Integrating Genomics into Healthcare: A Global Responsibility

    Zornitza Stark;Lena Dolman;Teri A. Manolio;Brad Ozenberger

  • Activated protein C inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced nuclear translocation of nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) and tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) production in the THP-1 monocytic cell line.

    B. White;M. Schmidt;C. Murphy;W. Livingstone

  • Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP): Localization of an ADRP gene to the long arm of chromosome 3

    Peter McWilliam;G.Jane Farrar;Paul Kenna;Daniel G. Bradley

  • Estimated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer services and excess 1-year mortality in people with cancer and multimorbidity: near real-time data on cancer care, cancer deaths and a population-based cohort study.

    Alvina G Lai;Laura Pasea;Amitava Banerjee;Amitava Banerjee;Geoff Hall;Geoff Hall

  • Evaluation of mixed chimerism by in vitro amplification of dinucleotide repeat sequences using the polymerase chain reaction

    M Lawler;P Humphries;SR McCann

  • Expression of the NF‐κB targets BCL2 and BIRC5/Survivin characterizes small B‐cell and aggressive B‐cell lymphomas, respectively

    Lorraine Tracey;Alberto Pérez-Rosado;Maria Jesús Artiga;Francisca I Camacho

  • Cyclosporin A and short-term methotrexate versus cyclosporin A as graft versus host disease prophylaxis in patients with severe aplastic anemia given allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from an HLA-identical sibling: results of a GITMO/EBMT randomized trial.

    F Locatelli;B Bruno;M Zecca;M T Van-Lint

  • Mycosis fungoides shows concurrent deregulation of multiple genes involved in the TNF signaling pathway: an expression profile study

    Lorraine Tracey;Raquel Villuendas;Ana Maria Dotor;Inmaculada Spiteri

  • 4-Amino-1,8-naphthalimide-based Tröger's bases as high affinity DNA targeting fluorescent supramolecular scaffolds

    Emma B Veale;Daniel O Frimannsson;Mark Lawler;Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson

  • Targeting c-MET in gastrointestinal tumours: rationale, opportunities and challenges

    Conor A Bradley;Manuel Salto-Tellez;Manuel Salto-Tellez;Pierre Laurent-Puig;Alberto Bardelli

  • Estimating excess mortality in people with cancer and multimorbidity in the COVID-19 emergency

    Alvina G. Lai;Laura Pasea;Amitava Banerjee;Amitava Banerjee;Spiros Denaxas

  • Challenging the Cancer Molecular Stratification Dogma: Intratumoral Heterogeneity Undermines Consensus Molecular Subtypes and Potential Diagnostic Value in Colorectal Cancer

    Philip D. Dunne;Darragh G. McArt;Conor A. Bradley;Paul G. O'Reilly

  • Hypoxia in prostate cancer: a powerful shield against tumour destruction?

    L. Marignol;M. Coffey;M. Lawler;D. Hollywood

  • The epigenome as a therapeutic target in prostate cancer

    Antoinette S Perry;R William G Watson;Mark Lawler;Donal Hollywood

  • Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa: linkage to rhodopsin and evidence for genetic heterogeneity

    G. Jane Farrar;Peter McWilliam;Daniel G. Bradley;Paul Kenna

  • A harmonized meta-knowledgebase of clinical interpretations of somatic genomic variants in cancer.

    Alex H Wagner;Brian Walsh;Georgia Mayfield;David Tamborero;David Tamborero

  • Personalized management of elderly patients with rectal cancer: Expert recommendations of the European Society of Surgical Oncology, European Society of Coloproctology, International Society of Geriatric Oncology, and American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer

    Isacco Montroni;Giampaolo Ugolini;Nicole M. Saur;Antonino Spinelli

  • Wilms' tumor gene 1 (WT1) expression in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a wide range of WT1 expression levels, its impact on prognosis and minimal residual disease monitoring

    L Boublikova;M Kalinova;J Ryan;F Quinn

  • The emerging roles of DNA methylation in the clinical management of prostate cancer.

    Antoinette S Perry;Ruth Foley;Karen Woodson;Mark Lawler

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Salto-Tellez
Manuel Salto-Tellez Queen's University Belfast
Patrick G. Johnston
Patrick G. Johnston Queen's University Belfast
Peter Humphries
Peter Humphries Trinity College Dublin
Giuseppe Campiani
Giuseppe Campiani University of Siena
Pierre Laurent-Puig
Pierre Laurent-Puig Université Paris Cité
Peter Selby
Peter Selby University of Leeds
Charles L. Sawyers
Charles L. Sawyers Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Clare Turnbull
Clare Turnbull Institute of Cancer Research
Judith C. W. Marsh
Judith C. W. Marsh King's College London
Jochen H. M. Prehn
Jochen H. M. Prehn Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

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