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Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar is affiliated with Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Oncology, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's work is concentrated in several main topics including colorectal cancer surgical treatments, colorectal cancer screening and detection, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, gastric cancer management and outcomes, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, and breast cancer treatment studies.

Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent venues including:

  • European Journal of Surgical Oncology
  • International Journal of Colorectal Disease
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Significant recent papers by this scientist include:

  • "An integrated tumor, immune and microbiome atlas of colon cancer," 2023, Nature Medicine
  • "The Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing," 2020, Annals of Surgery
  • "Patient-Related Prognostic Factors for Anastomotic Leakage, Major Complications, and Short-Term Mortality Following Esophagectomy for Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses," 2021, Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • "Predictors of 30-Day Mortality Among Dutch Patients Undergoing Colorectal Cancer Surgery, 2011-2016," 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • "The prognostic value of the tumor-stroma ratio is most discriminative in patients with grade III or triple-negative breast cancer," 2020, International Journal of Cancer

They have frequently collaborated with co-authors such as Wilma E. Mesker, Michel W.J.M. Wouters, Hein Putter, Jan Willem T. Dekker, and Pieter J. Tanis.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Efficacy of MRI and Mammography for Breast-Cancer Screening in Women with a Familial or Genetic Predisposition

    Mieke Kriege;Cecile T.M. Brekelmans;Carla Boetes;Peter E. Besnard

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Regions of focal DNA hypermethylation and long-range hypomethylation in colorectal cancer coincide with nuclear lamina–associated domains

    Benjamin P Berman;Daniel J Weisenberger;Joseph F Aman;Toshinori Hinoue

  • Gene Expression Signature to Improve Prognosis Prediction of Stage II and III Colorectal Cancer

    Ramon Salazar;Paul Roepman;Gabriel Capella;Victor Moreno

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

  • MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

    Sofia Khan;Dario Greco;Dario Greco;Kyriaki Michailidou;Roger L. Milne;Roger L. Milne

  • Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Associations with Five Susceptibility Loci by Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Per Hall;Heli Nevanlinna;Karen Pooley

  • The carcinoma–stromal ratio of colon carcinoma is an independent factor for survival compared to lymph node status and tumor stage

    Wilma E. Mesker;Jan M. C. Junggeburt;Karoly Szuhai;Pieter de Heer

  • The Dutch Surgical Colorectal Audit

    N.J. Van Leersum;H.S. Snijders;D. Henneman;N.E. Kolfschoten

  • Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

    Roger L Milne;Roger L Milne;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

    Haoyu Zhang;Haoyu Zhang;Thomas U. Ahearn;Julie Lecarpentier;Daniel Barnes

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Maya Ghoussaini;Olivia Fletcher;Kyriaki Michailidou;Clare Turnbull

  • EMT is the dominant program in human colon cancer

    Andre Loboda;Michael V Nebozhyn;James W Watters;Carolyne A Buser

  • Tumor–stroma ratio in the primary tumor is a prognostic factor in early breast cancer patients, especially in triple-negative carcinoma patients

    Esther M. de Kruijf;Johanna G. H. van Nes;Cornelis J. H. van de Velde;Hein Putter

  • The proportion of tumor-stroma as a strong prognosticator for stage II and III colon cancer patients: validation in the VICTOR trial

    A. Huijbers;R. A. E. M. Tollenaar;G. W. v Pelt;E. C. M. Zeestraten

  • Immune system and prognosis in colorectal cancer: a detailed immunohistochemical analysis

    Anand G Menon;Connie M Janssen van Rhijn;Hans Morreau;Hein Putter

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Peter A. Fasching
Peter A. Fasching University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Stig E. Bojesen
Stig E. Bojesen University of Copenhagen
Marjanka K. Schmidt
Marjanka K. Schmidt Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Barbara Burwinkel
Barbara Burwinkel Heidelberg University
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto

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