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2023

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124
Citations
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World Ranking
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85

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award
  • 2003 - King Faisal Prize

Overview

Umberto Veronesi was affiliated with the European Institute of Oncology in Italy. Their research largely focused on the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular attention to Cancer Research, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Oncology.

Their work covered several main topics, including:

  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Breast Lesions and Carcinomas
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis

Among their recent publications were the following papers:

  • Intraoperative irradiation for early breast cancer (ELIOT): long-term recurrence and survival outcomes from a single-centre, randomised, phase 3 equivalence trial (2021, The Lancet Oncology)
  • Radiotherapy to regional nodes in early breast cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 14,324 women in 16 trials (2023, The Lancet)

They frequently collaborated with other researchers in their field. Notable coauthors included Viviana Galimberti, Stefano Zurrida, Roberto Orecchia, Patrick Maisonneuve, and Roberta Lazzari.

Veronesi received the King Faisal Prize in 2003.

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

  • Twenty-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Study Comparing Breast-Conserving Surgery with Radical Mastectomy for Early Breast Cancer

    Umberto Veronesi;Natale Cascinelli;Luigi Mariani;Marco Greco

  • Polychemotherapy for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomised trials. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group.

    C Focan;SM Steinberg;M Blichert-Toft;JF Forbes

  • A randomized comparison of sentinel-node biopsy with routine axillary dissection in breast cancer.

    Umberto Veronesi;Giovanni Paganelli;Giuseppe Viale;Alberto Luini

  • Comparing Radical Mastectomy with Quadrantectomy, Axillary Dissection, and Radiotherapy in Patients with Small Cancers of the Breast

    Veronesi U;Saccozzi R;Del Vecchio M;Banfi A

  • Combination Chemotherapy as an Adjuvant Treatment in Operable Breast Cancer

    Bonadonna G;Brusamolino E;Valagussa P;Rossi A

  • Axillary dissection versus no axillary dissection in patients with sentinel-node micrometastases (IBCSG 23–01): a phase 3 randomised controlled trial

    Viviana Galimberti;Bernard F. Cole;Bernard F. Cole;Stefano Zurrida;Giuseppe Viale;Giuseppe Viale

  • Overview of the main outcomes in breast-cancer prevention trials.

    J Cuzick;T Powles;U Veronesi;J Forbes

  • Radiotherapy after Breast-Preserving Surgery in Women with Localized Cancer of the Breast

    Umberto Veronesi;Alberto Luini;Marcella Del Vecchio;Marco Greco

  • Sentinel lymph node biopsy and axillary dissection in breast cancer: results in a large series.

    U Veronesi;G Paganelli;G Viale;V Galimberti

  • Prevention of breast cancer with tamoxifen: preliminary findings from the Italian randomised trial among hysterectomised women

    U Veronesi;P Maisonneuve;A Costa;V Sacchini

  • Breast cancer (1)

    Jay R. Harris;Marc E. Lippman;Umberto Veronesi;Walter Willett

  • Radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery in small breast carcinoma: Long-term results of a randomized trial

    U. Veronesi;E. Marubini;L. Mariani;V. Galimberti

  • Inefficacy of Immediate Node Dissection in Stage 1 Melanoma of the Limbs

    Veronesi U;Adamus J;Bandiera Dc;Brennhovd Io

  • Intraoperative radiotherapy versus external radiotherapy for early breast cancer (ELIOT): a randomised controlled equivalence trial

    Umberto Veronesi;Roberto Orecchia;Roberto Orecchia;Patrick Maisonneuve;Giuseppe Viale;Giuseppe Viale

  • Primary Chemotherapy To Avoid Mastectomy in Tumors With Diameters of Three Centimeters or More

    Gianni Bonadonna;Umberto Veronesi;Cristina Brambilla;Laura Ferrari

  • Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: ten-year results of a randomized controlled study.

    Umberto Veronesi;Giuseppe Viale;Giovanni Paganelli;Stefano Zurrida

  • Local recurrences and distant metastases after conservative breast cancer treatments: partly independent events.

    Umberto Veronesi;Ettore Marubini;Marcella Del Vecchio;Antonia Manzari

  • Thin Stage I Primary Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma

    Umberto Veronesi;Natale Cascinelli;Jerzy Adamus;Jerzy Adamus;Charles M Balch

  • Sentinel-node biopsy to avoid axillary dissection in breast cancer with clinically negative lymph-nodes

    U. Veronesi;G. Paganelli;V. Galimberti;G. Viale

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Veronesi
Paolo Veronesi European Institute of Oncology
Viviana Galimberti
Viviana Galimberti European Institute of Oncology
Giuseppe Viale
Giuseppe Viale University of Milan
Roberto Orecchia
Roberto Orecchia European Institute of Oncology
Nicole Rotmensz
Nicole Rotmensz European Institute of Oncology
Patrick Maisonneuve
Patrick Maisonneuve European Institute of Oncology
Giovanni Paganelli
Giovanni Paganelli Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori
Alberto Luini
Alberto Luini National Research Council (CNR)
Bernardo Bonanni
Bernardo Bonanni European Institute of Oncology
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle University of Edinburgh

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