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Paul J. van Diest

Paul J. van Diest

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Medicine

D-Index
121
Citations
59152
World Ranking
3587
National Ranking
137

Overview

Paul J. van Diest is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in Medicine, with a focus on Oncology, Cancer Research, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Their research contributions span multiple topics including Breast Cancer Treatment Studies, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Breast Lesions and Carcinomas, AI in cancer detection, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management, and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening.

Their published work in well-known scientific journals reflects a consistent focus on oncological and radiological studies. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Journal of Clinical Pathology
  • Cancer Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers by Paul J. van Diest include:

  • Supplemental Breast MRI for Women with Extremely Dense Breasts: Results of the Second Screening Round of the DENSE Trial, 2021, Radiology
  • Spatial collagen stiffening promotes collective breast cancer cell invasion by reinforcing extracellular matrix alignment, 2022, Oncogene
  • Prognostic Value of Stromal Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Young, Node-Negative, Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients Who Did Not Receive (neo)Adjuvant Systemic Therapy, 2022, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • Grading of invasive breast carcinoma: the way forward, 2021, Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin
  • Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Histological Subtypes with a Favourable Prognosis, 2021, Cancers

Their body of collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Elsken van der Wall, Nikolas Stathonikos, Carmen van Dooijeweert, Carla H. van Gils, and Mitko Veta, indicating strong multidisciplinary cooperation within cancer research communities.

Best Publications

  • A Living Biobank of Breast Cancer Organoids Captures Disease Heterogeneity

    Norman Sachs;Joep de Ligt;Oded Kopper;Ewa Gogola

  • Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer: Guidelines and Pitfalls of Lymphoscintigraphy and Gamma Probe Detection

    Paul J Borgstein;Rik Pijpers;Emile F Comans Md;Paul J van Diest Md

  • Dysplastic changes in prophylactically removed Fallopian tubes of women predisposed to developing ovarian cancer

    J M Piek;P J van Diest;R P Zweemer;J W Jansen

  • Levels of Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α During Breast Carcinogenesis

    Reinhard Bos;Hua Zhong;Colleen F. Hanrahan;Ellen C. M. Mommers

  • Breast Cancer Histopathology Image Analysis: A Review

    Mitko Veta;Josien P. W. Pluim;Paul J. van Diest;Max A. Viergever

  • An organoid platform for ovarian cancer captures intra- and interpatient heterogeneity

    Oded Kopper;Chris J de Witte;Kadi Lõhmussaar;Jose Espejo Valle-Inclan

  • The 2019 World Health Organization classification of tumours of the breast.

    Puay Hoon Tan;Ian Ellis;Kimberly Allison;Edi Brogi

  • Micrometastases or Isolated Tumor Cells and the Outcome of Breast Cancer

    Maaike de Boer;Carolien H.M. van Deurzen;Jos A.A.M. van Dijck;George F. Borm

  • Supplemental MRI Screening for Women with Extremely Dense Breast Tissue

    Marije F. Bakker;Stéphanie V. de Lange;Ruud M. Pijnappel;Ritse M. Mann

  • Assessment of algorithms for mitosis detection in breast cancer histopathology images

    Mitko Veta;Paul J. van Diest;Stefan M. Willems;Haibo Wang

  • Prognostic value of proliferation in invasive breast cancer: a review

    P J van Diest;E van der Wall;J P A Baak

  • Reproducibility of mitosis counting in 2,469 breast cancer specimens: Results from the Multicenter Morphometric Mammary Carcinoma Project☆

    P.J. van Diest;J.P.A. Baak;P. Matze-Cok;E.C.M. Wisse-Brekelmans

  • Twist is a transcriptional repressor of E-cadherin gene expression in breast cancer

    Farhad Vesuna;Paul van Diest;Ji Hshiung Chen;Venu Raman

  • Automatic Nuclei Segmentation in H&E Stained Breast Cancer Histopathology Images

    Mitko Veta;Paul J. van Diest;Robert Kornegoor;André Huisman

  • Digital pathology: current status and future perspectives.

    Shaimaa Al-Janabi;André Huisman;Paul J Van Diest

  • Prevalence of HPV in cytomorphologically normal cervical smears, as determined by the polymerase chain reaction, is age-dependent

    Peter W. J. Melkert;Adriaan J.C. van den Brule;Elle K. J. Risse;Paul J. van Diest

  • Twist overexpression induces in vivo angiogenesis and correlates with chromosomal instability in breast cancer.

    Yelena Mironchik;Paul T. Winnard;Farhad Vesuna;Yoshinori Kato

  • Impact of lymphoscintigraphy on sentinel node identification with technetium-99m-colloidal albumin in breast cancer.

    Rik Pijpers;Sybren Meijer;Otto S. Hoekstra;Gerard J. Collet

  • Expression of growth factors, growth‐inhibiting factors, and their receptors in invasive breast cancer. II: Correlations with proliferation and angiogenesis

    Johannes S. de Jong;Paul J. van Diest;Paul van der Valk;Jan P. A. Baak

  • Common Adult Stem Cells in the Human Breast Give Rise to Glandular and Myoepithelial Cell Lineages: A New Cell Biological Concept

    Werner Böcker;Roland Moll;Christopher Poremba;Roland Holland

Frequent Co-Authors

Willem P.Th.M. Mali
Willem P.Th.M. Mali Utrecht University
Carla H. van Gils
Carla H. van Gils Utrecht University
Marc Vooijs
Marc Vooijs Maastricht University
Jelle Wesseling
Jelle Wesseling Leiden University Medical Center
Onno Kranenburg
Onno Kranenburg Utrecht University
Josien P. W. Pluim
Josien P. W. Pluim Eindhoven University of Technology
Sybren L. Meijer
Sybren L. Meijer University of Amsterdam
Richard van Hillegersberg
Richard van Hillegersberg Utrecht University
Emile E. Voest
Emile E. Voest Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital

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