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Peter Selby is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their primary research focus lies within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their research topics cover a considerable range including:

  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Peter Selby has published extensively, with key papers in prominent journals. Recent significant publications include:

  • Challenges of early renal cancer detection: symptom patterns and incidental diagnosis rate in a multicentre prospective UK cohort of patients presenting with suspected renal cancer, 2020, BMJ Open
  • European Groundshot-addressing Europe's cancer research challenges: a Lancet Oncology Commission, 2022, The Lancet Oncology
  • Temporary treatment cessation versus continuation of first-line tyrosine kinase inhibitor in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (STAR): an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised, controlled, phase 2/3 trial, 2023, The Lancet Oncology
  • APOBEC3B-mediated corruption of the tumor cell immunopeptidome induces heteroclitic neoepitopes for cancer immunotherapy, 2020, Nature Communications
  • ECCO Essential Requirements for Quality Cancer Care: Prostate cancer, 2020, Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Frequent collaborators in their work include David Nelson, Ros Kane, Samuel Cooke, Mark Lawler, and Naveen Vasudev.

Their publications appear most commonly in venues such as:

  • Journal of Cancer Policy
  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • BMJ Open
  • The Lancet Oncology

Best Publications

  • High-dose chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem-cell rescue for multiple myeloma.

    J. Anthony Child;Gareth J. Morgan;Faith E. Davies;Roger G. Owen

  • Measuring Quality of Life in Routine Oncology Practice Improves Communication and Patient Well-Being: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Galina Velikova;Laura Booth;Adam B. Smith;Paul M. Brown

  • Neonatal abstinence syndrome after methadone or buprenorphine exposure

    Hendrée E. Jones;Karol Kaltenbach;Sarah H. Heil;Susan M. Stine

  • The prevalence and outcomes of frailty in older cancer patients: a systematic review

    C. Handforth;A. Clegg;C. Young;S. Simpkins

  • Detection of melanoma cells in peripheral blood by means of reverse transcriptase and polymerase chain reaction.

    B. Smith;P. Selby;J. Southgate;K. Pittman

  • Release of the angiogenic cytokine vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) from platelets: significance for VEGF measurements and cancer biology.

    R. E. Banks;M. A. Forbes;S. E. Kinsey;A. Stanley

  • Anxiety disorders in cancer patients: Their nature, associations, and relation to quality of life

    D. Stark;M. Kiely;A. Smith;G. Velikova

  • Proteomics: new perspectives, new biomedical opportunities

    Rosamonde E Banks;Michael J Dunn;Denis F Hochstrasser;Jean-Charles Sanchez

  • Hypertension Canada’s 2018 Guidelines for Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension in Adults and Children

    Kara A. Nerenberg;Kelly B. Zarnke;Alexander A. Leung;Kaberi Dasgupta

  • The 2015 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, prevention, and treatment of hypertension.

    Kaberi Dasgupta;Robert R. Quinn;Kelly B. Zarnke;Doreen M. Rabi

  • Screening for anxiety and depression in cancer patients: the effects of disease and treatment

    T Ibbotson;Peter Maguire;P Selby;T Priestman

  • Hypertension Canada's 2020 Comprehensive Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, Risk Assessment, and Treatment of Hypertension in Adults and Children.

    Doreen M. Rabi;Kerry A. McBrien;Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze;Meranda Nakhla

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) in Breast Cancer: Comparison of Plasma, Serum, and Tissue VEGF and Microvessel Density and Effects of Tamoxifen

    Jacqueline Adams;Pauline J. Carder;Sarah Downey;Mary A. Forbes

  • Cyclosporin A to prevent graft-versus-host disease in man after allogeneic bone-marrow transplantation.

    R.L. Powles;H.M. Clink;D. Spence;G. Morgenstern

  • A critical appraisal of the "human tumor stem-cell assay".

    Peter Selby;Ronald N. Buick;Ian Tannock

  • Detection of epithelial cancer cells in peripheral blood by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction.

    SA Burchill;MF Bradbury;K Pittman;J Southgate

  • Interferon-alpha and survival in metastatic renal carcinoma: early results of a randomised controlled trial

    A Ritchie;G Griffiths;M Parmar;SD Fossa

  • Prognostic significance of BCL-2 expression and bcl-2 major breakpoint region rearrangement in diffuse large cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a British National Lymphoma Investigation Study.

    ME Hill;KA MacLennan;DC Cunningham;B Vaughan Hudson

  • Lack of communication between healthcare professionals and women with ovarian cancer about sexual issues

    M L Stead;J M Brown;L Fallowfield;P Selby

  • Hypertension Canada's 2016 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Guidelines for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension

    Alexander A. Leung;Kara Nerenberg;Stella S. Daskalopoulou;Kerry McBrien

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosamonde E. Banks
Rosamonde E. Banks University of Leeds
Alan Melcher
Alan Melcher Institute of Cancer Research
Richard G. Vile
Richard G. Vile Mayo Clinic
Kevin J. Harrington
Kevin J. Harrington Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Timothy Kottke
Timothy Kottke Mayo Clinic
Jennifer Southgate
Jennifer Southgate University of York
Matthew C. Coffey
Matthew C. Coffey Oncolytics Biotech (Canada)
Julia Brown
Julia Brown University of Leeds
Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson University of Southampton

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