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Ying Sun is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and has a substantial body of research primarily within the field of Medicine, with a focus on areas including Otorhinolaryngology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their research topics cover several key areas such as Head and Neck Cancer Studies, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and Head and Neck Surgical Oncology.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Jun Ma, Guan-Qun Zhou, Ling-Long Tang, Yan-Ping Mao, and Wen-Fei Li.

The scientist has published regularly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • Cancer Communications
  • Frontiers in Oncology

Recent notable papers by Ying Sun include:

  • Single-cell transcriptomics reveals regulators underlying immune cell diversity and immune subtypes associated with prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 2020, Cell Research
  • Chemotherapy in Combination With Radiotherapy for Definitive-Intent Treatment of Stage II-IVA Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: CSCO and ASCO Guideline, 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • The Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 2021, Cancer Communications
  • An Immune-Related Gene Prognostic Index for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, 2020, Clinical Cancer Research
  • Artificial intelligence for assisting cancer diagnosis and treatment in the era of precision medicine, 2021, Cancer Communications

Best Publications

  • Induction chemotherapy plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy versus concurrent chemoradiotherapy alone in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial

    Ying Sun;Wen Fei Li;Nian Yong Chen;Ning Zhang

  • Gemcitabine and Cisplatin Induction Chemotherapy in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

    Yuan Zhang;Lei Chen;Guo-Qing Hu;Ning Zhang

  • How Does Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy Versus Conventional Two-Dimensional Radiotherapy Influence the Treatment Results in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients?

    Shu Zhen Lai;Wen Fei Li;Lei Chen;Wei Luo

  • Concurrent chemoradiotherapy plus adjuvant chemotherapy versus concurrent chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a phase 3 multicentre randomised controlled trial

    Lei Chen;Chao Su Hu;Xiao Zhong Chen;Guo Qing Hu

  • Comparative safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer: systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Cheng Xu;Yu Pei Chen;Xiao Jing Du;Jin Qi Liu

  • The Sinocyclocheilus cavefish genome provides insights into cave adaptation

    Junxing Yang;Xiaoli Chen;Jie Bai;Dongming Fang

  • Long Noncoding RNA FAM225A Promotes Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Tumorigenesis and Metastasis by Acting as ceRNA to Sponge miR-590-3p/miR-1275 and Upregulate ITGB3

    Zi-Qi Zheng;Zhi-Xuan Li;Guan-Qun Zhou;Li Lin

  • Prognostic value of a microRNA signature in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a microRNA expression analysis

    Na Liu;Nian Yong Chen;Rui Xue Cui;Wen Fei Li

  • Intensity-modulated radiotherapy prolongs the survival of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma compared with conventional two-dimensional radiotherapy: A 10-year experience with a large cohort and long follow-up.

    Meng Xia Zhang;Jing Li;Guo Ping Shen;Xiong Zou

  • Deep Learning for Automated Contouring of Primary Tumor Volumes by MRI for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

    Li Lin;Qi Dou;Yue Ming Jin;Guan Qun Zhou

  • Development and validation of a gene expression-based signature to predict distant metastasis in locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a retrospective, multicentre, cohort study

    Xin Ran Tang;Ying Qin Li;Shao Bo Liang;Wei Jiang

  • Prognostic Value of Deep Learning PET/CT-Based Radiomics: Potential Role for Future Individual Induction Chemotherapy in Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

    Hao Peng;Di Dong;Meng Jie Fang;Lu Li;Lu Li

  • Re-Evaluation of 6th Edition of AJCC Staging System for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Proposed Improvement Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Yan Ping Mao;Fang Yun Xie;Li Zhi Liu;Ying Sun

  • Single-cell transcriptomics reveals regulators underlying immune cell diversity and immune subtypes associated with prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

    Yu-Pei Chen;Jian-Hua Yin;Wen-Fei Li;Han-Jie Li

  • Chemotherapy in Combination With Radiotherapy for Definitive-Intent Treatment of Stage II-IVA Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: CSCO and ASCO Guideline

    Yu-Pei Chen;Nofisat Ismaila;Melvin L K Chua;A Dimitrios Colevas

  • Genomic Analysis of Tumor Microenvironment Immune Types across 14 Solid Cancer Types: Immunotherapeutic Implications

    Yu Pei Chen;Yu Zhang;Jia Wei Lv;Ying Qin Li

  • Practice recommendations for risk-adapted head and neck cancer radiotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: an ASTRO-ESTRO consensus statement

    David J. Thomson;David Palma;Matthias Guckenberger;Panagiotis Balermpas

  • Identification and validation of novel microenvironment-based immune molecular subgroups of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: implications for immunotherapy

    Y. P. Chen;Y. Q. Wang;J. W. Lv;Y. Q. Li

  • The Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO) clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

    Ling-Long Tang;Yu-Pei Chen;Chuan-Ben Chen;Ming-Yuan Chen

  • Additional file 5: Figure S15â S17. of The Sinocyclocheilus cavefish genome provides insights into cave adaptation

    Junxing Yang;Xiaoli Chen;Jie Bai;Dongming Fang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Ma
Jun Ma Harbin Institute of Technology
Jun Ma
Jun Ma Sun Yat-sen University
Byrappa Venkatesh
Byrappa Venkatesh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Haitao Wang
Haitao Wang Nankai University
Jie Tian
Jie Tian Chinese Academy of Sciences
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute
Zhou Songyang
Zhou Songyang Sun Yat-sen University
Guangyi Fan
Guangyi Fan Beijing Genomics Institute
Xun Xu
Xun Xu Beijing Genomics Institute
Nancy Y. Lee
Nancy Y. Lee Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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