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Stephen Lam is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, with a focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine among other subfields.

The primary areas of study for Stephen Lam include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within subfields, their work covers:

  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Molecular Biology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Oncology
  • Biomedical Engineering

Stephen Lam's main research topics involve:

  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening

Their publication record includes articles in several prominent scientific journals, highlighting the focus on lung cancer, screening, and related conditions. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Lung Cancer
  • Canadian Journal of Respiratory Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Breath Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Stephen Lam has published several recent papers, including:

  • The effect of smoking on chronic inflammation, immune function and blood cell composition (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Causal relationships between body mass index, smoking and lung cancer: Univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization (2020, International Journal of Cancer)
  • Air Pollution and Lung Cancer: A Review by International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Early Detection and Screening Committee (2023, Journal of Thoracic Oncology)
  • Screening for Lung Cancer in Individuals Who Never Smoked: An International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Early Detection and Screening Committee Report (2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology)
  • Towards large-scale case-finding: training and validation of residual networks for detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using low-dose CT (2020, The Lancet Digital Health)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen Lam include:

  • John K. Field
  • Geoffrey Liu
  • Rayjean J. Hung
  • Martin C. Tammemägi
  • Christopher I. Amos

Best Publications

  • Side Population in Human Lung Cancer Cell Lines and Tumors Is Enriched with Stem-like Cancer Cells

    Maria M. Ho;Alvin V. Ng;Stephen Lam;Jaclyn Y. Hung

  • Probability of Cancer in Pulmonary Nodules Detected on First Screening CT

    Annette McWilliams;Martin C. Tammemagi;John R. Mayo;Heidi Roberts

  • Small-Airway Obstruction and Emphysema in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    John E. McDonough;Ren Yuan;Masaru Suzuki;Nazgol Seyednejad

  • Knockout Rats via Embryo Microinjection of Zinc-Finger Nucleases

    Aron M. Geurts;Gregory J. Cost;Yevgeniy Freyvert;Bryan Zeitler

  • Near-infrared Raman spectroscopy for optical diagnosis of lung cancer

    Zhiwei Huang;Annette McWilliams;Harvey Lui;David I. McLean

  • K13-propeller mutations confer artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates

    Judith Straimer;Nina F. Gnädig;Benoit Witkowski;Chanaki Amaratunga

  • Localization of Bronchial Intraepithelial Neoplastic Lesions by Fluorescence Bronchoscopy

    Stephen Lam;Timothy Kennedy;Michael Unger;York E. Miller

  • Molecular Damage in the Bronchial Epithelium of Current and Former Smokers

    Ignacio I. Wistuba;Stephen Lam;Carmen Behrens;Arvind K. Virmani

  • High Resolution Chromosome 3p Allelotyping of Human Lung Cancer and Preneoplastic/Preinvasive Bronchial Epithelium Reveals Multiple, Discontinuous Sites of 3p Allele Loss and Three Regions of Frequent Breakpoints

    Ignacio I. Wistuba;Carmen Behrens;Arvind K. Virmani;Gina Mele

  • Autofluorescence of normal and malignant bronchial tissue.

    Jaclyn Hung;Stephen Lam;Jean C. Leriche;Branko Palcic

  • Treatment and Prevention of Intraepithelial Neoplasia: An Important Target for Accelerated New Agent Development: Recommendations of the American Association for Cancer Research Task Force on the Treatment and Prevention of Intraepithelial Neoplasia

    Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy;Gary J. Kelloff;Gary B. Gordon;Andrew J. Dannenberg

  • Detection of dysplasia and carcinoma in situ with a lung imaging fluorescence endoscope device

    Stephen Lam;Calum MacAulay;Jaclyn Hung;Jean LeRiche

  • Genome-scale analysis of DNA methylation in lung adenocarcinoma and integration with mRNA expression

    Suhaida A. Selamat;Brian S. Chung;Luc Girard;Wei Zhang

  • Bronchial Thermoplasty for Asthma

    Gerard Cox;John D. Miller;Annette McWilliams;J. Mark FitzGerald

  • Human Cancer Long Non-Coding RNA Transcriptomes

    Ewan A. Gibb;Ewan A. Gibb;Emily A. Vucic;Emily A. Vucic;Katey S. S. Enfield;Katey S. S. Enfield;Greg L. Stewart;Greg L. Stewart

  • Clinical features and natural history of occupational asthma due to western red cedar (Thuja plicata)

    Moira Chan-Yeung;Stephen Lam;Sandra Koener

  • Genetic alterations defining NSCLC subtypes and their therapeutic implications.

    Larissa A. Pikor;Varune R. Ramnarine;Stephen Lam;Wan L. Lam

  • Release of leukotrienes in patients with bronchial asthma.

    Stephen Lam;Henry Chan;Jean C. LeRiche;Moira Chan-Yeung

  • Detection and Localization of Early Lung Cancer by Imaging Techniques

    Stephen Lam;Calum MacAulay;Branko Palcic

  • Progress in chemoprevention drug development: the promise of molecular biomarkers for prevention of intraepithelial neoplasia and cancer--a plan to move forward.

    Gary J. Kelloff;Scott M. Lippman;Andrew J. Dannenberg;Caroline C. Sigman

Frequent Co-Authors

Wan L. Lam
Wan L. Lam BC Cancer Research Centre
Adi F. Gazdar
Adi F. Gazdar The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Ming-Sound Tsao
Ming-Sound Tsao Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Stig E. Bojesen
Stig E. Bojesen University of Copenhagen
Geoffrey Liu
Geoffrey Liu Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Rayjean J. Hung
Rayjean J. Hung Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Harvey O. Coxson
Harvey O. Coxson University of British Columbia
Christopher I. Amos
Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine
David C. Christiani
David C. Christiani Harvard University
John K. Field
John K. Field University of Liverpool

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