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Overview

Puay Hoon Tan is affiliated with the Duke NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore, with a scholarly focus spanning medicine and life sciences. Their research output includes over 251 publications in medicine and more than 100 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work extensively covers subfields such as cancer research, oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and dermatology. Key topics within their research include:

  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Breast Lesions and Carcinomas
  • Cancer and Skin Lesions
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • AI in cancer detection
  • HER2/EGFR in Cancer Research
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Tan has published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals with a concentration of work appearing in:

  • Histopathology (22 publications)
  • Modern Pathology (8 publications)
  • Pathology (6 publications)
  • Cancer Research (6 publications)
  • Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin (5 publications)

Among recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Tan are:

  • The 2019 World Health Organization classification of tumours of the breast, 2020, Histopathology
  • The 2022 World Health Organization Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs-Part A: Renal, Penile, and Testicular Tumours, 2022, European Urology
  • Counting mitoses: SI(ze) matters!, 2021, Modern Pathology
  • HER2 expression, copy number variation and survival outcomes in HER2-low non-metastatic breast cancer: an international multicentre cohort study and TCGA-METABRIC analysis, 2022, BMC Medicine
  • Liquid Biopsy in Breast Cancer: A Focused Review, 2020, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Frequent collaboration is notable with several co-authors, including:

  • Aye Aye Thike
  • Ian A. Cree
  • Nur Diyana Md Nasir
  • Veronique Kiak Mien Tan
  • Emad A. Rakha

Best Publications

  • WHO classification of tumours of the breast

    Sunil R. Lakhani;Ian O. Ellis;Stuart J. Schnitt;Puay Hoon Tan

  • The International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Vancouver classification of renal neoplasia

    John R. Srigley;Brett Delahunt;John N. Eble;Lars Egevad

  • Breast cancer prognostic classification in the molecular era: the role of histological grade

    Emad A. Rakha;Jorge S. Reis-Filho;Frederick Baehner;David J. Dabbs

  • Basal-like and triple-negative breast cancers: a critical review with an emphasis on the implications for pathologists and oncologists

    Sunil Badve;David J. Dabbs;Stuart J. Schnitt;Frederick L. Baehner

  • The International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Grading System for Renal Cell Carcinoma and Other Prognostic Parameters

    Brett Delahunt;John C. Cheville;Guido Martignoni;Peter A. Humphrey

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

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

  • Phyllodes tumours of the breast: a consensus review

    Benjamin Y. Tan;Geza Acs;Sophia K. Apple;Sunil Badve

  • An Antioxidant Response Phenotype Shared between Hereditary and Sporadic Type 2 Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma

    Aikseng Ooi;Jing Chii Wong;David Petillo;Douglas Roossien

  • Over-expression of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase (MEK)-MAPK in hepatocellular carcinoma: Its role in tumor progression and apoptosis

    Hung Huynh;Thi Thanh Tuyen Nguyen;Kah-Hoe Kah-Pierce Chow;Puay Hoon Tan

  • International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Consensus Conference on Handling and Staging of Radical Prostatectomy Specimens. Working group 5: surgical margins

    Puay Hoon Tan;Liang Cheng;John R Srigley;David Griffiths

  • Triple-negative breast cancer: clinicopathological characteristics and relationship with basal-like breast cancer

    Aye Aye Thike;Poh Yian Cheok;Ana Richelia Jara-Lazaro;Benita Tan

  • Phyllodes tumors of the breast: the role of pathologic parameters.

    Puay-Hoon Tan;Thiyagarajan Jayabaskar;Khoon-Leong Chuah;Hwei-Yee Lee

  • Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH)-deficient renal carcinoma: a morphologically distinct entity: a clinicopathologic series of 36 tumors from 27 patients.

    Anthony J. Gill;Anthony J. Gill;Ondrej Hes;Thomas Papathomas;Monika Šedivcová

  • Overexpression of Interleukin-13 Induces Minimal-Change–Like Nephropathy in Rats

    Kin-Wai Lai;Chang-Li Wei;Li-Kiang Tan;Puay-Hoon Tan

  • Phyllodes Tumors of the Breast

    Puay-Hoon Tan;Thiyagarajan Jayabaskar;Khoon-Leong Chuah;Hwei-Yee Lee

  • Large artery ischaemic stroke in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

    T Umapathi;Ai Ching Kor;N Venketasubramanian;C C Tchoyoson Lim

  • Predicting clinical behaviour of breast phyllodes tumours: a nomogram based on histological criteria and surgical margins

    Puay Hoon Tan;Aye Aye Thike;Wai Jin Tan;Minn Minn Myint Thu

  • A Molecular Classification of Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma

    Ximing J. Yang;Min Han Tan;Min Han Tan;Hyung L. Kim;Jonathon A. Ditlev

  • Metaplastic carcinoma of the breast: a clinicopathological review.

    Gary Mk Tse;Puay Hoon Tan;Thomas C Putti;Philip Cw Lui

  • Exome sequencing identifies highly recurrent MED12 somatic mutations in breast fibroadenoma

    Weng Khong Lim;Choon Kiat Ong;Jing Tan;Aye Aye Thike

Frequent Co-Authors

Boon-Huat Bay
Boon-Huat Bay National University of Singapore
Bin Tean Teh
Bin Tean Teh National University of Singapore
Liang Cheng
Liang Cheng Brown University
Rodolfo Montironi
Rodolfo Montironi Marche Polytechnic University
Antonio Lopez-Beltran
Antonio Lopez-Beltran University of Córdoba
Fernando Schmitt
Fernando Schmitt University of Porto
Ian O. Ellis
Ian O. Ellis University of Nottingham
Patrick Tan
Patrick Tan Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Gregory T. MacLennan
Gregory T. MacLennan Case Western Reserve University
Sunil R. Lakhani
Sunil R. Lakhani University of Queensland

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