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Robyn L. Ward is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research spans medicine, with a particular focus on oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, genetics, economics and econometrics, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as genetic factors in colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer screening and detection, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, genomics and rare diseases, economic and financial impacts of cancer, and radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging.

Robyn L. Ward has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Transformer-based biomarker prediction from colorectal cancer histology: A large-scale multicentric study (2023), published in Cancer Cell
  • What are the attitudes of health professionals regarding patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in oncology practice? A mixed-method synthesis of the qualitative evidence (2020), published in BMC Health Services Research
  • Oncomicrobial Community Profiling Identifies Clinicomolecular and Prognostic Subtypes of Colorectal Cancer (2023), published in Gastroenterology
  • End-to-end prognostication in colorectal cancer by deep learning: a retrospective, multicentre study (2023), published in The Lancet Digital Health
  • Australian Genomics: Outcomes of a 5-year national program to accelerate the integration of genomics in healthcare (2023), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics

They regularly publish in venues such as BMC Health Services Research, EClinicalMedicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Australian Health Review, and BMC Cancer.

Frequent co-authors of Robyn L. Ward include:

  • Winston Liauw
  • Nicholas J. Hawkins
  • Julia Shingleton
  • David C. Currow
  • Andrew Mallett

Best Publications

  • Kirsten ras mutations in patients with colorectal cancer: the ‘RASCAL II’ study

    H. J. N. Andreyev;A. R. Norman;D. Cunningham;J. Oates

  • Germline epimutation of MLH1 in individuals with multiple cancers

    Catherine M Suter;David I K Martin;David I K Martin;Robyn L Ward;Robyn L Ward

  • Large-scale delineation of secreted protein biomarkers overexpressed in cancer tissue and serum

    John B. Welsh;Lisa M. Sapinoso;Suzanne G. Kern;David A. Brown

  • Incidence and severity of self-reported chemotherapy side effects in routine care: A prospective cohort study

    Alison Pearce;Marion Haas;Rosalie Viney;Sallie Anne Pearson

  • Inheritance of a cancer-associated MLH1 germ-line epimutation.

    Megan P. Hitchins;Justin J. L. Wong;Graerne Suthers;Catherine M. Suter

  • Microsatellite instability and the clinicopathological features of sporadic colorectal cancer

    R Ward;A Meagher;I Tomlinson;T O'Connor

  • CpG island methylation in sporadic colorectal cancers and its relationship to microsatellite instability

    Nicholas Hawkins;Mark Norrie;Kay Cheong;Elisa Mokany

  • Tolerance of Whole-Genome Doubling Propagates Chromosomal Instability and Accelerates Cancer Genome Evolution

    Sally M. Dewhurst;Nicholas McGranahan;Rebecca A. Burrell;Andrew J. Rowan

  • Sporadic Colorectal Cancers With Microsatellite Instability and Their Possible Origin in Hyperplastic Polyps and Serrated Adenomas

    Nicholas John Hawkins;Robyn Lynne Ward

  • The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies

    Graeme Morgan;Robyn Ward;Michael Barton

  • SMAD2, SMAD3 and SMAD4 mutations in colorectal cancer

    Nicholas I Fleming;Robert N Jorissen;Dmitri Mouradov;Michael Christie

  • Off‐label use of medicines: consensus recommendations for evaluating appropriateness

    Madlen Gazarian;Maria Kelly;John R McPhee;Linda V Graudins

  • HerMES: SPIRE galaxy number counts at 250, 350 and 500 microns

    S. J. Oliver;L. Wang;A. J. Smith;B. Altieri

  • MIC-1 serum level and genotype: associations with progress and prognosis of colorectal carcinoma.

    David A. Brown;Robyn L. Ward;Philip Buckhaults;Tao Liu

  • Serrated and non-serrated polyps of the colorectum: their prevalence in an unselected case series and correlation of BRAF mutation analysis with the diagnosis of sessile serrated adenoma

    Norman J Carr;Hema Mahajan;King L Tan;Nicholas J Hawkins

  • An Expression-Based Site of Origin Diagnostic Method Designed for Clinical Application to Cancer of Unknown Origin

    Richard W. Tothill;Adam Kowalczyk;Danny Rischin;Alex Bousioutas

  • Colorectal cancer: a model for epigenetic tumorigenesis

    Justin Jong Leong Wong;Nicholas John Hawkins;Robyn Lynne Ward

  • Response rate or time to progression as predictors of survival in trials of metastatic colorectal cancer or non-small-cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis.

    Kent R Johnson;Clare Ringland;Barrie J Stokes;Danielle M Anthony

  • Adverse Prognostic Effect of Methylation in Colorectal Cancer Is Reversed by Microsatellite Instability

    Robyn Lynne Ward;Kay Cheong;Su-Lyn Ku;Alan Meagher

  • The relationship between hypomethylation and CpG island methylation in colorectal neoplasia.

    Carolyn Bariol;Catherine Suter;Kay Cheong;Su-Lyn Ku

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Ivison
Rob Ivison European Southern Observatory
Asantha Cooray
Asantha Cooray University of California, Irvine
Dimitra Rigopoulou
Dimitra Rigopoulou University of Oxford
Mattia Vaccari
Mattia Vaccari University of Cape Town
Benjamin L. Schulz
Benjamin L. Schulz University of Queensland
Jamie Stevens
Jamie Stevens Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Matthew Joseph Griffin
Matthew Joseph Griffin Cardiff University
Michael Rowan-Robinson
Michael Rowan-Robinson Imperial College London
Jason Glenn
Jason Glenn Goddard Space Flight Center
Walter Kieran Gear
Walter Kieran Gear Cardiff University

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