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Usha Menon is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and is an active researcher in the fields of medicine and molecular biology, with a focus on reproductive medicine, genetics, oncology, and cancer research. Their scholarly work concentrates predominantly on ovarian cancer, gene mutations related to cancer, and cancer screening and diagnostics.

Their research spans several main topics including:

  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Endometrial and cervical cancer treatments
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics
  • Global cancer incidence and screening
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Colorectal cancer screening and detection

Usha Menon has contributed to multiple notable publication venues. The most frequent among these are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Cancers

Collaborating closely with a number of coauthors, Menon has strong research ties with:

  • Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj
  • Ian Jacobs
  • Sophia Apostolidou
  • Andy Ryan
  • Susan J. Ramus

Some of the recent significant papers include:

  • Ovarian cancer population screening and mortality after long-term follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trial, 2021, The Lancet
  • Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Ovarian cancer screening: Current status and future directions, 2020, Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Improved early detection of ovarian cancer using longitudinal multimarker models, 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • Screening and prevention of ovarian cancer, 2024, The Medical Journal of Australia

Best Publications

  • Rethinking ovarian cancer: recommendations for improving outcomes

    Sebastian Vaughan;Jermaine I. Coward;Robert C. Bast;Andy Berchuck

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • Rethinking ovarian cancer II: Reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

    David D. Bowtell;David D. Bowtell;Steffen Böhm;Ahmed A. Ahmed;Paul Joseph Aspuria

  • Ovarian cancer screening and mortality in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trial.

    Ian J Jacobs;Ian J Jacobs;Ian J Jacobs;Usha Menon;Andy Ryan;Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Association between endometriosis and risk of histological subtypes of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies.

    Celeste Leigh Pearce;Claire Templeman;Mary Anne Rossing;Alice Lee

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

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

  • Age-dependent DNA methylation of genes that are suppressed in stem cells is a hallmark of cancer

    Andrew E. Teschendorff;Usha Menon;Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj;Susan J. Ramus

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Management of women who test positive for high-risk types of human papillomavirus: The HART study

    Jack Cuzick;A Szarewski;H Cubie;G Hulman

  • Sensitivity and specificity of multimodal and ultrasound screening for ovarian cancer, and stage distribution of detected cancers: Results of the prevalence screen of the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS)

    Usha Menon;Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj;Rachel Hallett;Andy Ryan

  • SCREENING FOR OVARIAN CANCER : A PILOT RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL

    Ian J. Jacobs;Steven J. Skates;Nicola MacDonald;Usha Menon

  • Ovarian Cancer Population Screening and Mortality After Long-Term Follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): A Randomised Controlled Trial

    Usha Menon;Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj;Matthew Burnell;Naveena Singh

  • Progress and Challenges in Screening for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer

    Ian J. Jacobs;Usha Menon

  • 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

  • New tumor markers: CA125 and beyond

    Robert C. Bast;D. Badgwell;Z. Lu;R. Marquez

  • Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Hormone-receptor expression and ovarian cancer survival: an Ovarian Tumor Tissue Analysis consortium study

    Weiva Sieh;Martin Köbel;Teri A Longacre;David D Bowtell;David D Bowtell

  • Germline Mutations in the BRIP1, BARD1, PALB2, and NBN Genes in Women With Ovarian Cancer

    Susan J. Ramus;Honglin Song;Ed Dicks;Jonathan P. Tyrer

  • Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

    Catherine M Phelan;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Jonathan P Tyrer;Siddhartha P Kar

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Jacobs
Ian Jacobs University of New South Wales
Susan J. Ramus
Susan J. Ramus University of New South Wales
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Joellen M. Schildkraut
Joellen M. Schildkraut University of Virginia
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Ellen L. Goode
Ellen L. Goode Mayo Clinic
Marc T. Goodman
Marc T. Goodman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Jennifer A. Doherty
Jennifer A. Doherty University of Utah
Susanne K. Kjaer
Susanne K. Kjaer University of Copenhagen

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