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Robert Kerrin Hills

Robert Kerrin Hills

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Medicine

D-Index
91
Citations
49118
World Ranking
11524
National Ranking
1095

Overview

Robert Kerrin Hills is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on hematology, molecular biology, oncology, genetics, and cancer research.

Their work extensively covers topics such as acute myeloid leukemia research, acute lymphoblastic leukemia research, breast cancer treatment studies, myeloproliferative neoplasms diagnosis and treatment, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, cancer treatment and pharmacology, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the British Journal of Haematology, Blood, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Research, and The Lancet.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Trastuzumab for early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer: a meta-analysis of 13,864 women in seven randomised trials, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • Molecular MRD status and outcome after transplantation in NPM1-mutated AML, 2020, Blood
  • Anthracycline-containing and taxane-containing chemotherapy for early-stage operable breast cancer: a patient-level meta-analysis of 100,800 women from 86 randomised trials, 2023, The Lancet
  • Unified classification and risk-stratification in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Radiotherapy to regional nodes in early breast cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 14,324 women in 16 trials, 2023, The Lancet

Their frequent co-authors include Nigel H. Russell, Alan K. Burnett, Mike Dennis, Amanda Gilkes, and Ian Thomas, indicating collaboration with established researchers in related medical and oncological fields.

Best Publications

  • Effects of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy for early breast cancer on recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials

    O. Abe;R. Abe;K. Enomoto;K. Kikuchi

  • Adjuvant chemotherapy versus observation in patients with colorectal cancer: a randomised study.

    Richard Gray;Jennifer Barnwell;Christopher McConkey

  • Refinement of cytogenetic classification in acute myeloid leukemia: determination of prognostic significance of rare recurring chromosomal abnormalities among 5876 younger adult patients treated in the United Kingdom Medical Research Council trials

    David Grimwade;Robert K. Hills;Anthony V. Moorman;Helen Walker

  • Association between premature mortality and hypopituitarism

    J. W. Tomlinson;N. Holden;Robert Kerrin Hills;K. Wheatley

  • Adjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer: a systematic overview of 8,507 patients from 22 randomised trials

    R. Gray;Robert Kerrin Hills;R. Stowe;M. Clarke

  • Minimal/measurable residual disease in AML: a consensus document from the European LeukemiaNet MRD Working Party.

    Gerrit J. Schuurhuis;Michael Heuser;Sylvie Freeman;Marie Christine Béne

  • Long-term donepezil treatment in 565 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD2000): randomised double-blind trial.

    C Courtney;D Farrell;R Gray;R Hills

  • Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease.

    Robert Howard;Rupert McShane;James Lindesay;Craig Ritchie

  • The impact of FLT3 internal tandem duplication mutant level, number, size, and interaction with NPM1 mutations in a large cohort of young adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia

    Rosemary E. Gale;Claire Green;Christopher Allen;Adam J. Mead

  • Assessment of Minimal Residual Disease in Standard-Risk AML.

    Adam Ivey;Robert Kerrin Hills;Michael A. Simpson;Jelena V. Jovanovic

  • A comparison of low-dose cytarabine and hydroxyurea with or without all-trans retinoic acid for acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome in patients not considered fit for intensive treatment†‡

    Alan Kenneth Burnett;Donald Milligan;Archie G. Prentice;Anthony H. Goldstone

  • Factors predisposing women to chronic pelvic pain: systematic review

    Pallavi Latthe;Luciano Mignini;Richard Gray;Robert Hills

  • Addition of gemtuzumab ozogamicin to induction chemotherapy in adult patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: A meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomised controlled trials

    Robert Kerrin Hills;Sylvie Castaigne;Frederick R. Appelbaum;Jacques Delaunay

  • Identification of Patients With Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Who Benefit From the Addition of Gemtuzumab Ozogamicin: Results of the MRC AML15 Trial

    Alan Kenneth Burnett;Robert Kerrin Hills;Donald Milligan;Lars Kjeldsen

  • Allogeneic peripheral blood stem-cell compared with bone marrow transplantation in the management of hematologic malignancies: an individual patient data meta-analysis of nine randomized trials

    Mahmoud al-Jurf;Mahmoud al-Jurf;Francisco Aranha;Francisco Aranha;Claudio Annasetti;Jane F. Apperley;Jane F. Apperley

  • Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Detection of Minimal Residual Disease by Standardized WT1 Assay to Enhance Risk Stratification in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A European LeukemiaNet Study

    Daniel Cilloni;Aline Renneville;Fabienne Hermitte;Robert Kerrin Hills

  • Arsenic trioxide and all-trans retinoic acid treatment for acute promyelocytic leukaemia in all risk groups (AML17): results of a randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial.

    Alan K Burnett;Nigel H Russell;Robert Kerrin Hills;David Bowen

  • Minimal residual disease monitoring by quantitative RT-PCR in core binding factor AML allows risk stratification and predicts relapse: results of the United Kingdom MRC AML-15 trial.

    John A. Liu Yin;Michelle A. O'Brien;Robert Kerrin Hills;Sarah B. Daly

  • Addition of Gemtuzumab Ozogamicin to Induction Chemotherapy Improves Survival in Older Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Alan Kenneth Burnett;Nigel H. Russell;Robert Kerrin Hills;Jonathan Kell

  • Optimization of Chemotherapy for Younger Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Results of the Medical Research Council AML15 Trial

    Alan Kenneth Burnett;Nigel H. Russell;Robert Kerrin Hills;Ann E. Hunter

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Kenneth Burnett
Alan Kenneth Burnett University of Glasgow
Nigel H. Russell
Nigel H. Russell University of Nottingham
Keith Wheatley
Keith Wheatley University of Birmingham
David Grimwade
David Grimwade King's College London
David C. Linch
David C. Linch University College London
Donald Milligan
Donald Milligan University of Birmingham
Richard Gray
Richard Gray University of Oxford
Mary Frances McMullin
Mary Frances McMullin Queen's University Belfast
Anthony H. Goldstone
Anthony H. Goldstone University College Hospital
Paresh Vyas
Paresh Vyas University of Oxford

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